That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live in harmony with the rest of nature, and that's what I've been calling Eden. The only technologies that humans devised for some 2 million years were fire and the hand ax. That's all. Eden didn't need anything more
That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to… - Kirkpatrick Sale
That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to…
- Kirkpatrick Sale
Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denyi… - Kirkpatrick Sale
Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denyi…
I want to leave my country without leaving my home. - Kirkpatrick Sale
I want to leave my country without leaving my home.
The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic… - Kirkpatrick Sale
The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic…
When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans … - Kirkpatrick Sale
When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans …
I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler… - Kirkpatrick Sale
I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler…
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state. - Kirkpatrick Sale
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.
So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human … - Kirkpatrick Sale
So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human …
And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival. - Kirkpatrick Sale
And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.
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