Category: Development EN

“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.” — Lewis Mumford

Enter any grand shopping mall today and you will lose your bearings. You feel disoriented and don’t know exactly how to get back to the car. Many modern malls use hexagonal floor plans, which have been proven to be among the most difficult to navigate. Once inside such a mall, a customer must traverse a complicated set of 12 hallways arranged at intentionally confusing angles. Disorientation...

Both are polluting, one dirties the place, the other blatantly dirties our views in a much bigger way. Why the double standards? Why do we punish the poor individual but REWARD THE RICH BUSINESSMEN AND CORPORATIONS. Should we allow the visual pollution and COMMERCIALISATION OF PUBLIC SPACES? Should we not reclaim back our public spaces? Should we let the public by educated by commercial culture,...

In a public letter of protest, 60 child psychologists and mental health professionals told the American Psychological Association (APA): “Advertising and marketing firms have long used the insights and research method of psychology in order to sell products … But today these practices are reaching epidemic levels, and with a complicity on the part of the psychological profession that exceed...

by Masanobu Fukuoka, who is a farmer and author of One Straw Revolution and many other books. He is one of the most extraordinary farmers of the 20th century and practises the unique do-nothing farming. An awesome thinker who has profound words on almost anything ... farming, education, modern science, life, etc. "I am a small person, staying on a small Japanese island called Shikoku. I am crazy...