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"Regardless of the ideological label attached to each national area, they all had in common that technology was the key to all good and that good was always material increase, gain, comfort pleasure. The real purposes of life, so long ago perverted, had been forgotten, were ridiculed by those who had ever heard of them.
And all this time the earth was being despoiled. The minerals were being ripped out, the fuels wasted, the soils depleted by an improvident and shortsighted agriculture, the animals and plants slaughtered and destroyed, the seas being filled with filth and poison, the atmosphere corrupted and always, all the time, the propaganda machines thumped out more, drink more, eat more, consume more, discard more, in a frenzy, a mania.
These were maddened creatures and the small voices that rose in protest were not enough to halt the processes that had been set in motion and were sustained by greed. Sustained by the lack of 'substance-of-we-feeling."
From Shikasta by Doris Lessing, published in 1978. Who says science fiction is fiction? THIRTY YEARS ON.. it's all coming true..
www.alternativeresearchconsortium.org
We the people, many tribes one union. We must band together before it's too late.. and science fiction becomes fact...
And all this time the earth was being despoiled. The minerals were being ripped out, the fuels wasted, the soils depleted by an improvident and shortsighted agriculture, the animals and plants slaughtered and destroyed, the seas being filled with filth and poison, the atmosphere corrupted and always, all the time, the propaganda machines thumped out more, drink more, eat more, consume more, discard more, in a frenzy, a mania.
These were maddened creatures and the small voices that rose in protest were not enough to halt the processes that had been set in motion and were sustained by greed. Sustained by the lack of 'substance-of-we-feeling."
From Shikasta by Doris Lessing, published in 1978. Who says science fiction is fiction? THIRTY YEARS ON.. it's all coming true..
www.alternativeresearchconsortium.org
We the people, many tribes one union. We must band together before it's too late.. and science fiction becomes fact...
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