Some 62 years ago a condescending folk singer by the name of Malvina Reynolds wrote a song called “Little Boxes.” It has been labelled “the most sanctimonious song ever written,” and the first verse of the lyrics tell us why:
“How did the obsession with decarbonization arise”?
A few of us actually want to maintain complex lifeforms on this rock. Jesus, I’m thinking you’re gonna be on the medal stand with that intentionally disingenuous gibberish.
Excellent piece. The alternative to those little boxes, the goal of the high-status hippies who wrote such songs, was giant sprawling impractical houses by Wright or Neutra on giant acreages.
I live in one of those standardized little boxes (500 sqft) and it's easy to heat and cool compared to a big dramatic house. It uses far less energy than the glass walls and open cantilevers of Wright or Neutra.
So many of the rich today, fancy themselves as superior in thought and motive, and therefore worthy of belonging to the "intellectual class", compared to the common man. I am reminded of the works of Eric Hoffer, IMHO, one of the greatest philosophers on mass movements and extremism.
“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”
Hoffer's "True Believer" is a must read for anyone trying to understand what's happening today and periodically happens throughout history as elites destroy society and ordinary people build it up again. There is a constant turning.
The “elites” are corporate entities raping the planet of its resources. Destroying life on this blue dot. At least your disingenuous bullshit rhetoric is correct. Not your insinuation.
“How did the obsession with decarbonization arise”?
A few of us actually want to maintain complex lifeforms on this rock. Jesus, I’m thinking you’re gonna be on the medal stand with that intentionally disingenuous gibberish.
Maybe I’m missing something. Is that satire?
Excellent piece. The alternative to those little boxes, the goal of the high-status hippies who wrote such songs, was giant sprawling impractical houses by Wright or Neutra on giant acreages.
I live in one of those standardized little boxes (500 sqft) and it's easy to heat and cool compared to a big dramatic house. It uses far less energy than the glass walls and open cantilevers of Wright or Neutra.
Love this observation!
So many of the rich today, fancy themselves as superior in thought and motive, and therefore worthy of belonging to the "intellectual class", compared to the common man. I am reminded of the works of Eric Hoffer, IMHO, one of the greatest philosophers on mass movements and extremism.
“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”
― Eric Hoffer
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/9843.Eric_Hoffer
Hoffer's "True Believer" is a must read for anyone trying to understand what's happening today and periodically happens throughout history as elites destroy society and ordinary people build it up again. There is a constant turning.
The “elites” are corporate entities raping the planet of its resources. Destroying life on this blue dot. At least your disingenuous bullshit rhetoric is correct. Not your insinuation.
Excellent column Tom. I'm forwarding it to my contacts. Thank you. Sam Stevens
Thank you, Sam!
Smoking hot, Tom!
Thanks, Steve!
In high school all her friends were non-conformists so she became a non-conformist too. The Austin Lounge Lizards - “Big Tex’s Girl”
The Greatest Generation saved the world 🌎, then the hippie generation shat on the achievement.