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“He found that the arrogance of power could be used to unleash unlimited growth--an unrestrained, cancerous sort of creation that would lead to destruction.”

Book:Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer is an American author, ecologist, and indigenous plant scientist. Born in 1953, she is a member of the Hénan-Hénatsi tribe and an active advocate for environmental protection. Her work blends science, literature, and indigenous knowledge, exploring the relationship between humans and nature. more

“...most of the parade's attendees clung to a notion of what their town was, what values it embodied, what hopes it carved out, though by 2007 its once-largest employers, a steel tube plant and two plate glass manufacturers, were over twenty years gone and most of the county's small farms had been gobbled up by Smithfield, Syngenta, Tyson, and Archer Daniels Midland. Many of those residents who had not been born in this country but who'd made their way from Kuala Lumpur or Jordan or Delhi or Honduras waved those flags the hardest when the casket went by.”

Immigration Ruins Corporations Patriotism Nationalism Immigrants Corporate Greed Industrialism Jingoism Cities Spaces Places

Book:Ohio

Source: Ohio

“The manic productivity of capitalism, the demands and aspirations of social status and the mechanical rhythms of industrialism all corral the individual into a perpetual state of anxious and compliant activity.”

Anxiety Capitalism Social Status Industrialism

Book:Not Working

Source: Not Working

“So, if capitalism is not really the root of the problem socialist societies share with late capitalist societies, there must be something else, something shared in common. And that, it would seem to me, is industrialism. That, and the peculiar social forms generated by the industrial process itself. Centralization is a dynamic shared, of necessity, by any industrial/industrializing society. Rationalization is another factor...assembly line workers are alienated [not] so much by the abstract notion of their "distancing" from their "product" or "profit" so much as they are alienated by the sheer physical misery of being trapped in a factory.”

Capitalism Socialism Indigenous Wisdom Industrialism

Author:Frank Black Elk

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