From: "John Michael Greer" <Mezla@hotmail.com>

And then on other days, I find myself thinking that the Industrial Revolution was a Faustian bargain in which an entire civilization sold its soul for a brief period of material power and wealth.

The engine of capitalism has been a race against time, racing to gain needed knowledges while capacity to acquire them exists, racing to possess them before consequences of limitations of the globe overwhelm and render achievement of ascending civilization forevermore impossible. Thus, it has been justifiable if some individuals must endure wretched want while others are prodigious in their vanities, as long as the progress is gained, otherwise unobtainable.

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Steve Morningthunder

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