I guess they can no longer use , "there are children starving in China". Never figured out how exactly I was helping them. And we're way past , "during the depression.......". For those of us of a certain age.
"I enjoyed it because I’m always fascinated by the strange transitions of modernity. Should you fall into that bucket you’ll probably enjoy it as well."
Another data point in the 'Seeing like a State' file of modernity's hubris, where technocrats roll in and assume their scientific approach has got to be better than whatever backwards ideas people naturally have?
I guess they can no longer use , "there are children starving in China". Never figured out how exactly I was helping them. And we're way past , "during the depression.......". For those of us of a certain age.
"I enjoyed it because I’m always fascinated by the strange transitions of modernity. Should you fall into that bucket you’ll probably enjoy it as well."
Another data point in the 'Seeing like a State' file of modernity's hubris, where technocrats roll in and assume their scientific approach has got to be better than whatever backwards ideas people naturally have?
Yeah, that occurred to me as well while I was reading it. That's part of what inspired the title.