This meander was stimulated by a recent repudiation by Zizek of the possible role of small communities in any future human flourishing. In this context, I revisit E. F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful (1973). I discuss some of the core ideas from that seminal work. In particular, I focus on the treatement of raw materials as [inexhaustible] income and the treatement of the environment as a free dump by capitalism and the economic theories that act as its ideological justification. I touch upon intermediate technology, the role of 'spirituality' in the good life, the way in which economic theories and political practice often treat people as numbers on a spreadsheet, the 1984-5 UK Miners' Strike and the persistence of alienation in nationalised industries. I do this by discerning Zizek's 'inner Schumacher' and Schumacher's 'inner Zizek' and recounting instances of their expression. In both cases these inner others are mostly repressed, but vigorous enough to surface now and then in brilliant insight. [Free. 47 minutes.]
THE GATELESS GATE OF HUMAN PASSION
LAO TZU: PART THREE
THE SNAP GENERAL ELECTION UK 2017 - SOME THOUGHTS
LAO TZU: PART TWO
LAO TZU: PART ONE
FEMINISM 101
ON OPTIMISM
LEGS ON A SNAKE
THE BLUE PILL OR THE RED PILL? PART FIVE: DISSOLUTION OF THE BINARIES
THE BLUE PILL OR THE RED PILL? PART FOUR: POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY
THE BLUE PILL OR THE RED PILL? PART THREE: METAPHYSICS
THE BLUE PILL OR THE RED PILL? PART TWO: EXISTENTIALISM, CHOICE & FREEDOM
THE BLUE PILL OR THE RED PILL? PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
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SYNCHRONICITY
FOLLOWING YOUR OWN WYRD
THOUGHTS ON RELAXATION
CARLOS CASTANEDA'S PATH WITH HEART
CONSIDERING CULTS
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