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A review of All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1983)

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• Animats 5y ago
  Oh, that again. There's a long history of this kind of thinking, going back about as far as written literature. It keeps coming around, as new generations think they invented it. Recent versions include "Bobos In Paradise", and this Chobani commercial.[1] A new problem, though, is a fascination with "change" and "disruption", as opposed to "progress". This is relatively recent. The classic goal of a manufacturer was a smooth-running, stable, profitable plant. Henry Ford stayed with a single model as long as possible. So did Volkswagen. The demand for change originated when manufacturing caught up to demand, and marketing was needed to convince people to replace functional objects with new ones. This is perhaps a toxic form of modernity. That's a more useful subject to work on. [1] https://www.ispot.tv/ad/tPj4/chobani-eat-today-feed-tomorrow https://www.ispot.tv/ad/tPj4/chobani-eat-today-feed-tomorrow
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  • Kaibeezy 5y ago
    The world is both very big and a complete mess. Plenty of pre-modern folk still about, and plenty of modern and post-modern “aristocrats” ready to march them down a dark (unenlightened) tunnel straight from agrarian to digital serfdom. I’m curious why OP posted this, and why a 40-year-old review and not the book itself. I read it when it came out, but don’t recall it being prescriptive, which surely would have limited its impact. Despite all the reading and passage of time, I’ve never been quite sure what to do with all this perspective. I’ve ended up a plush, Chobani-eating nihilist in a cool blue-green bubble. Time for my fiddle lesson.