His lifestyle - activism included - is a fantasy of pastoral individualism which is only possible because science and technology keep the lights on for everyone around him.
He still doesn't use a computer, and his wife still uses a typewriter to transcribe his rustic hand-hewn longhand.
But after that the words are typed into a computer by another assistant.
Would a return to small-scale farms and communities be a good thing? Of course. But he's blaming "lazy city folks" when the real culprits are corporate raiders and would-be plantation owners.
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His lifestyle - activism included - is a fantasy of pastoral individualism which is only possible because science and technology keep the lights on for everyone around him.
He still doesn't use a computer, and his wife still uses a typewriter to transcribe his rustic hand-hewn longhand.
But after that the words are typed into a computer by another assistant.
Would a return to small-scale farms and communities be a good thing? Of course. But he's blaming "lazy city folks" when the real culprits are corporate raiders and would-be plantation owners.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/10/2/20862854/wendell...