Another thought-provoking essay! Although society certainly looks at times to be a complicated machine, well before the idea of machine there was a knowledge of the hive. If survivors of the Unraveling avoid the model of machine can they avoid the model of the hive (both propped up with magical thinking)?
Society in this form is a machine, no less efficient, than earlier versions. Imagine us making blades or hauling stones in 1000BC? because the amazon worker or the bangladeshi woman making sportswear for Nike and Adidas is doing the same today. We are part of that ugly system. A system which needs to come down, destroyed from within if possible. The chief burden of civilization borne by common people.
Another thought-provoking essay! Although society certainly looks at times to be a complicated machine, well before the idea of machine there was a knowledge of the hive. If survivors of the Unraveling avoid the model of machine can they avoid the model of the hive (both propped up with magical thinking)?
Society in this form is a machine, no less efficient, than earlier versions. Imagine us making blades or hauling stones in 1000BC? because the amazon worker or the bangladeshi woman making sportswear for Nike and Adidas is doing the same today. We are part of that ugly system. A system which needs to come down, destroyed from within if possible. The chief burden of civilization borne by common people.
I with you on that.
Hi Elliot...Perhaps in our lifetimes, or beyond. One way or another...
God willing.