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.]
LAO TZU 54
EIE, A GLIMMER OF HOPE - INTERESTING TIMES 59
DESTRUCTIVE CONSEQUENCES OF TRUSSONOMIC - INTERESTING TIMES 58
LAO TZU 53
ECSTACY AND THE APOCALYPSE
SUNSET - MUSIC
RIOT AND REFUSAL - INTERESTING TIMES 57
THE DAY AFTER
NATURAL LIBERATION
LAO TZU 52
CORPORATIONS TO RUN CITIES IN THE UK SOON? [PART 1]
RESIGNATIONS, CHAOS AND FRAGMENTATION - INTERESTING TIMES 56
MUSIC - LOVE SONG 3
LAO TZU 51
STARMER’S LONG-CORBYN - INTERESTING TIMES 55
LAO TZU 50
APOCALYPSE REPORT JUNE 22 - INTERESTING TIMES 54
THE JUBILEE, PSYCHOANALYSIS & OTHER GOSSIP - INTERESTING TIMES 53
LAO TZU 49
LAO TZU 48
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