#againstthemachine — Public Fediverse posts
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“‘What is at stake,’ asserts [E. F.] Schumacher, ‘is not economics but culture; not the standard of living but the quality of life. Economics and the standard of living can just as well be looked after by a capitalist system, moderated by a bit of planning and redistributive taxation. But culture and, generally, the quality of life, can now only be debased by such a system.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 97 -
#LARB Radio Hour | The Shit Show
"[H]ow #BigTech dreams – from iPhones to #socialMedia to #AI – have become nightmares.
"How did these decade-defining innovations end up making modern life feel sadder, lonelier, and scarier?"
#books discussed
⦁ @pluralistic's #Enshittification
⦁ Paul Kingsnorth’s #AgainstTheMachine