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Excerpt from Idle Money Idle Men
The adjustment of men to their technical inventions proceeds on various fronts, civil and military, and at varying rates. At some points the adjustment needs to be speeded up if men are not to suffer; at Other points brakes need to be applied. This is the basic theme of practically everything I have ever written. These essays are another contribution to the subject.
Natural brakes are found in undeveloped parts of the planet: in Thibet, the Antarctic, a wilderness area in a national park In the United States. They are found In every isolated handicraft community, like a village of Mexican Indians. Artificial brakes are ditfi cult to apply. There is a possibility that the movement away from great cities, called decentralization, will serve to retard excessive mechanization. I wish to heaven a brake could be found for the satanic de struction by bombing planes.
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