“My wasting of time is not merely laziness and disorder, but also a conscious protest against the most absurd, most insane, and most sacred principle of the modern world, namely that time is money. In itself, the expression is, of course, entirely correct; time can easily be turned into money, just as electric current can easily be turned into light and heat. What is insane, frenzied, and base in this most foolish of all human principles is simply that “money” is unconditionally set up as the designation of the highest value.
My revulsion toward this dogma of the modern world, and toward the modern world itself, by which I mean the entire machine culture, is so great that, wherever possible, I do not consider it worthy to adapt myself to the laws of such a world.”-(Hermann Hess, 'Journey to Nuremberg)…
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Good luck with that when foraging for food.
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It’s ‘foraging for thought’- the price is nothing, but the cost is very high…
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