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Quote for the day – January 9

09 Saturday Jan 2016

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anti-industrialism, industrial society, Miguel Amorós

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“Our critique of science, technology and the industrial system is a critique of progress. And in the same way it is a critique of the ideologies of science and progress, not least the workerist ideology, in both reformist and revolutionary guise, which is based on taking over, in the name of the proletariat, the bourgeois industrial system and its technology”.

Miguel Amorós, Elementary Foundations of the Anti-Industrial Critique

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Quote for the day – May 23

23 Saturday May 2015

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Aldous Huxley, industrial society, taoism

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“The industrial worker at his fool-proof and grace-proof machine does his job in a man-made universe of punctual automata – a universe that lies entirely beyond the pale of Tao on any level, brutal, human or spiritual”.

Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

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Quote for the day – May 22

22 Friday May 2015

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Artur Holitscher, Charlie Chaplin, industrial society

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“The specialisation of labour arising from mass production is increasingly reducing the worker to the level of a dead piece of machinery, a cog or lever functioning with automatic precision”

Artur Holitscher. Amerika heute und morgen

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