Re: Why we must return to the land


Stephen Horgan wrote:

>
> Nope, it condemns you to a short life of back-breaking labour with the
> option of dying even earlier of starvation or disease.


You speak from experience of such work, I assume? Myatt does.

There is - or rather, can be - a balance between such work and having
time enough to spend in artistic/creative/whatever pursuits.


>
> Humanity's path is onward and upward, not backwards into a muddy
> ditch.

It's not backward, it is in fact using reason to plan out a better way.
Not a return, but a development of some things that happened in the
past, which you'd know if you'd read more by Myatt on the subject
rather than, it seems, jumping to some conclusion.

Anyways - you call all that happens in big cities "forward"? Drugs;
violent crime; bullying; drunkeness; poverty; inequality; prejudice
blah blah blah

So, we may have more leisure, better health care - but how many of the
millions in the States are happy? Content? And - really human?

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