Jul 4, 2012
Homesteading
“In the enthusiasm of our rapid mechanical
conquests we have overlooked some things. We have perhaps driven men into the
service of the machine, instead of building machinery for the service of man.
But could anything be more natural? So long as we were engaged in conquest,
our spirit was the spirit of conquerors. The time has now come when we must be
colonists, must make this house habitable which is still without
character.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
(1939). Contrast the Quality Without a
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