Book Report: Triumph of the Moon

I've been reading Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton looking at the development of modern witchcraft, mostly from a matrix of victorian repression, industrialism, rebellion against the church, and a few other things. One part of particular interest to me was the discussion of the development of various scouting movements in the early 1900's. It talks about how boy scouting and other scouting ...

from "The Pleasures of Eating"

... been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The trap is the ideal of industrialism: a walled city surrounded by valves that let merchandise in but no consciousness out. How does one escape this trap? Only voluntarily, the same way that one went in: by restoring one's ...

...is one that Greer refers to as "abundance industrialism," in which humanity has used the immense ... sees as the inevitable successor to abundance industrialism is one that relies wholly on renewable ... decades muddling through what Greer terms "scarcity industrialism," in which we liquidate the second half ... and other raw materials. Then, once scarcity industrialism and the salvage society have played ...

[Fic] All Right at the End

..., I suppose! The department store -- a new invention of the late 19th/early 20th century. Brought women and their consumption out into the public sphere. Compounded with the full actualization of industrialism and urbanization in America and a new mass visual culture, the female body (and everything that went on it) began to be a highly public entity. Consumption and voyeurism at its finest! ...

Georgist Conference in Cleveland, Part Nine

... the automobile industry, but this didn't happen just because Henry Ford chanced to be living there. It developed from a city of small machine shops and such. And why was there this kind of energy and industrialism? From 1890 to 1950, Detroit was the fastest growing city in the country. It had high wages (you'd expect people to move to where wages are high, wouldn't you?). It did not have low ...

Confused on the Left, Blinded by the Right (Part I)

...antecedents seems to be the notion that wealth is stagnant under mercantilism and feudalism, while it can grow under capitalism. This concept of growth proves important when one considers the change industrialism and the rise of banking inflicted especially on the cities of Europe. Take this passage from Emergence concerning growth of the English city of Manchester: It was impossible to see it...

Michael Moore Asks the Question: What Would Jesus Do...About Capitalism?

... unless our working class will descend to the wages abroad.  These are all very plausible assertions but they are lies dressed up in truth.  There is a great deal of conscious lying.  Industrialism as a whole sends out deceptive prospectuses just like the single corporations within it.  But in the main these misleading theories are the complacent self-deception of those who profit by present ...

News Clips

...the interplay of several major factors, the religious tradition, Humanism, democracy, nationalism, capitalism, science, industrialism, and a new psychology. The US Constitution did not intend to remove the Bible ... began to apostasize, rejecting God and going a-whoring after the gods of industrialism, capitalism, materialism, and Humanism, religion and morality were still the bedrock of all public ...

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

... And there's a reason. The whole system was invented -- around the world, there were no public systems of education, really, before the 19th century. They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism. So the hierarchy is rooted on two ideas. Number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top. So you were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a ...

Too harsh?

... twitches of a hidden smile while I read how you express yourself. I'm sure the words flow from your pencil more lubed than the most effective machine. Have you ever heard of image distortion? Your shiny industrialism is just a pile of rust. The tension of each unoriginal phrase doesn't invoke awe, just pity. It's acceptable if you're the drunken, ash-tray smelling, writer type, but not when all ...