Change and live
Humanity has a choice: do we want to change and live – or not? Peoples’ attitude to change is paradoxical. On the one hand, …
Simplicity
The Winds of Change
The winds of change are blowing through society – but not all change is progress, indeed, there is plenty of change that isn’t progress. …
Simple Pleasures
In former times, when life was physically tough, the simple pleasures of life would have been wonderful. Workers would have enjoyed doing a job …
Finding the right purpose
In April of 1958, Hunter S. Thompson was just 22 years old when he wrote this remarkable letter to his friend Hume Logan in …
The benefits of doing chores
There are many benefits of doing chores. I wrote in an earlier article that convenience and ease are a disease. Our society continually produces …
Simplicity quotes
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci “The art …
The KISS Principle
“Any fool can make things complicated, it requires a genius to make things simple.” – E.F. Schumacher Keep it Simple, Stupid KISS stands for …
Convivial tools
Convivial tools include technologies, techniques and institutions that allow people to thrive. Unfortunately, people are losing touch with their innate productive capacities and are …
Big is Ugly
“Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are …
Homo Absumo
We are living in the biggest consumption explosion in history, and it could well be terminal, if we don’t stop. Diminishing man The Latin …