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.]
COVID19 & MENTAL HEALTH
EYES - COMMENTARY ON A VERSE
LAO TZU 39
REMARKS ON FREUD PART 1 - THE UNCONSCIOUS
QUESTIONING QUESTIONING
EL-SALVADOR TAKES HISTORIC STEP - INTERESTING TIMES 37
LAO TZU 38
TORY DESTRUCTIVE NIHILISM - INTERESTING TIMES 36
LAO TZU 37
CUMMINGS SPILLS THE BEANS - INTERESTING TIMES 35
ON PALESTINE - INTERESTING TIMES 34
JERSEY & FISH - INTERESTING TIMES 33
DEMOCRACY FOR SALE - BOOK REVIEW
CURTAINS FOR JOHNSON? - INTERESTING TIMES 32
LAO TZU 36
THE COLD WAR WITH CHINA - INTERESTING TIMES 31
VIOLENCE IN NORTHERN IRELAND - INTERESTING TIMES 30
CAN THE LABOUR PARTY SAVE THE WORLD? - INTERESTING TIMES 29
LAO TZU 35
KILL THE BILL PROTESTS & WHAT THEY EXPOSE - INTERESTING TIMES 28
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