Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
Aldous HuxleyRead
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.
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