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Originally Posted by JSH
It isn't easy to turn a global economy off and then back on again.
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Why would you want to turn it back on? There was a world order that was blown away by the First World War. And then that was blown away again by the World Wide Web. Where were you in 1971?
garage.vice.com:
Looking At the 'Whole Earth Catalog' While the World Falls Apart
That was the year Buckminster Fuller said that humankind had exited an era of permitted ignorance.
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Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent ...
https://books.google.com › books › about › Education_Automation.html?id=FafgDQAAQBAJ
Buckminster Fuller's prophetic 1962 book "Education Automation" brilliantly anticipated the need to rethink learning in light of a dawning revolution in informational technology - "upcoming major world industry." Along with other essays on education, including "Breaking the Shell of Permitted Ignorance," "Children: the True Scientists" and "Mistake Mystique" this volume ...
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Fifty years on:
www.spiked-online.com/2020/05/19/the-mis-anthropocene/ [possibly worth a read I Cntrl-F'd the thing.]
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In the closing scene of Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks, standing on the shattered steps of the White House after the alien invasion has been fortuitously defeated, accidental saviour Richie Norris says, ‘We will rebuild’. He then adds: ‘But instead of houses, we could live in teepees, which are much better in a lot of ways.’ Burton’s joke is that mankind has only saved itself by accident and has not actually worked out how things could be any better. After the denouement of the world’s near destruction, living in teepees seems as good an idea as any.
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edit: Recommended. Modern problems require modern solutions.
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Limits to Growth in 1972
But as Karl Marx pointed out, even a ‘child knows that any nation that stopped working, not for a year, but let us say, just for a few weeks, would perish’.
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