Tag: progress

And Robin and I really hope that this book can be part of that movement to help people get outside the Machine, throw sand in its gears, and live as creatures—human beings, fully alive.

Modernity has become permanently liquid; it no longer seeks solid replacements to the pre-modern world but finds greater value in transience, not just of institutions and things, but of human relationships too.

Those who do know her work might be a bit surprised if I suggest that Le Guin has a real porcher sensibility.

If you love place, limits, liberty, and think they are words that have meaning, you are probably conservative, and should honor that word also.

“The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on."

A homogeneous global consumer culture flattens its victims. And, perhaps in the same vein, our meanderings around the dying furniture capital of Yecla turned up nothing: virtually everything on display fitted what has become the decorative style of contemporary Spain: the sort of stuff one might find in a Copenhagen dentist’s office.