Just some quotes that have bounced up on the radar recently:
”Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.” –Wendell Berry. (left as a comment on a vid I made a while back)
“Civilization has run [...]
Simply sending people to architecture school will not be what produces habitable structures. We need to try to understand the bigger picture and the forces that are at play in an interconnected world. When economic and social design get the same attention that industrial design does, then maybe we will end up with a more [...]
“Because we are educated to believe that salvation is found in the doctrines of a single system, we are naively susceptible to dissimulation and cant. Ideologies prey on those weaknesses and pervert them into blind loyalties, preventing diversity rather than nurturing natural evolution and the flourishing of ideas. Ecologists and biologists know that systems achieve [...]
The poster below is from a clip in “Did You Ever Wonder?” The quote is from Paul Hawken, written in his paradigm-shattering book The Ecology of Commerce.
Some might view it as being overly pessimistic or possibly alarmist. If however, one does the math, considers the logic of limits, and reads the reports, the quality of [...]
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