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Reading a history of the Krupp Steel Dynasty at the moment.
Begiining from a craft workshop and bronze cannons in 1812 to the complete reorganisation of work, products processes and a concurrent rise in the complexity of society and culture and increases in world population in two centuries.
Capitalism or at least mass production rules today.
nothing can escape it except those things that a person can do for themselves.
e.g. make ones own clothes and grow ones own veges but even then one must buy cloth and seed.
didnt go down town yesterday so I missed the rag and Rosemary Mcleods column.
She makes the fallacy of composition when she compares the people she knew back in the day with society at large.
Sure some people couldn't handle their drugs and went off the rails but many more didn't. And the more important thing is that those who flipped out would have done so sooner or later.
and many smoked a little weed and nothing ever happened to them.
Our society is always going to produce deviants and it is more important to understand why rather than try to bash people who in some sense are not really responsible for their actions and behaviour.
the brief era of the hippies opened a very temporary window where new ideas could surface against the dead hand of 1950's materialism and conformity and the remorseless industrial/military complex which while it took a few hits still rules the matrtix and nexus of social interaction today whether its heroin from afhghanistan or petrol from Arabia.
Its all part of the machine.
AND DONT FORGET IT!
Begiining from a craft workshop and bronze cannons in 1812 to the complete reorganisation of work, products processes and a concurrent rise in the complexity of society and culture and increases in world population in two centuries.
Capitalism or at least mass production rules today.
nothing can escape it except those things that a person can do for themselves.
e.g. make ones own clothes and grow ones own veges but even then one must buy cloth and seed.
didnt go down town yesterday so I missed the rag and Rosemary Mcleods column.
She makes the fallacy of composition when she compares the people she knew back in the day with society at large.
Sure some people couldn't handle their drugs and went off the rails but many more didn't. And the more important thing is that those who flipped out would have done so sooner or later.
and many smoked a little weed and nothing ever happened to them.
Our society is always going to produce deviants and it is more important to understand why rather than try to bash people who in some sense are not really responsible for their actions and behaviour.
the brief era of the hippies opened a very temporary window where new ideas could surface against the dead hand of 1950's materialism and conformity and the remorseless industrial/military complex which while it took a few hits still rules the matrtix and nexus of social interaction today whether its heroin from afhghanistan or petrol from Arabia.
Its all part of the machine.
AND DONT FORGET IT!
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