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John Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958).
"The family which takes its mauve and cerise, air-conditioned, power steered and power-braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground. They pass on into a countryside that has been rendered largely invisible by commercial art. . . . They picnic on exquisitely packaged food from a portable icebox by a polluted stream and go on to spend the night at a park which is a menace to public health and morals. Just before dozing off on an air mattress, beneath a nylon tent, amid the stench of decaying refuse, they may reflect vaguely on the curious unevenness of their blessings. Is this, indeed, the American genius? . . ."
Makes one wonder if giving kids whatever they want, letting them do whatever they want, doing no physical labor other than swiping their screens, assuming someone else will clean up their mess and pay their bills - might be creating generations of adults who "toss things out the window onto someone else's property".
hmmmm
"The family which takes its mauve and cerise, air-conditioned, power steered and power-braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground. They pass on into a countryside that has been rendered largely invisible by commercial art. . . . They picnic on exquisitely packaged food from a portable icebox by a polluted stream and go on to spend the night at a park which is a menace to public health and morals. Just before dozing off on an air mattress, beneath a nylon tent, amid the stench of decaying refuse, they may reflect vaguely on the curious unevenness of their blessings. Is this, indeed, the American genius? . . ."
Makes one wonder if giving kids whatever they want, letting them do whatever they want, doing no physical labor other than swiping their screens, assuming someone else will clean up their mess and pay their bills - might be creating generations of adults who "toss things out the window onto someone else's property".
hmmmm
