🐰 How to (Re)Build Society? | Ivan Illich

🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️ “Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.” ~ Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is the Massage---------------------------------------{If...

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Jan 09, 2025
🐰 What Does It Mean to be "Healthy"? | Ivan Illich

🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️ “People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.”~ Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays---------...

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Jan 02, 2025
🐰 What Is Human Agency? | Ivan Illich

🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️ “No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world...

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Dec 26, 2024
🐰 Does Advertising Make Us Unhappy? | Ivan Illich

🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good...

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Dec 19, 2024
🐰 Are We Caught in Radical Monopolies? | Ivan Illich

🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️ “The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.” ~ The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan-...

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Dec 12, 2024
🐰 "We Don't Need No Education"? | Ivan Illich

🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️“Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.”   - Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society---------------------------------------{If you'd prefer t...

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Dec 05, 2024
🐰 Who Was Ivan Illich?

🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️“The exploiter wishes to earn as much as possible by as little work as possible; the nurturer expects, certainly, to have a decent living from his work, but his characteristic wish is to work as well as possible.” ~ Wendell...

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Nov 28, 2024
🐰 Paul Kingsnorth | What Is Wisdom?

🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and mus...

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Nov 21, 2024