Far beyond official Washington, we would seem to be witnessing a fraying of the bonds of empathy, decency, common purpose. It is becoming a country in which people more than disagree. They fail to see each other. They think in types about others, and assume the worst of types not their own.
Today’s Americans don’t care to know how the gas comes to the pump, the food to the table, the iPad to the store.
Just make sure they do.
But now they’re staring, transfixed, at where things come from. And what people still do to get it to you, and the death and devastation that can result when something goes wrong and it can’t be fixed with a call to technical support.
Oil disaster shows a divide from physical world
A harsh assessment, yes, but I couldn’t help but recognize myself in this piece. We’ve become dangerously disconnected from the world in which we live.
On economy
Leo Babauta:
We need economy […]
Economy of movement […]
Economy of words […]
Economy of materials
Source: mnmlist.com
If you mug someone in the street and you are caught, the chances are that you will go to prison. In recent years, mugging someone out of their savings or their pension would probably earn you a yacht.
The end of solitude
If boredom is the great emotion of the TV generation, loneliness is the great emotion of the Web generation. We lost the ability to be still, our capacity for idleness. They have lost the ability to be alone, their capacity for solitude.
(via Nicholas Carr)
Source: roughtype.com
