http://imaginal.com.au/2008/04/22/energy-slaves/ Remembering the Dream of the Earth Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:52:57 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://imaginal.com.au/2008/04/22/energy-slaves/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Peter Brandis (Imaginal) Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:23:44 +0000 http://imaginal.wordpress.com/?p=42#comment-83 "Consumerism as a system by which nature dies the death of a 1,000 cuts" - I could not agree more - particularly now, with "growth" and "consumer spending" seemingly the only way out of the current crises. When will a politician or business leader stand up and say that this is the time to start on a new path, even if with faltering and uncertain steps? “Consumerism as a system by which nature dies the death of a 1,000 cuts” – I could not agree more – particularly now, with “growth” and “consumer spending” seemingly the only way out of the current crises. When will a politician or business leader stand up and say that this is the time to start on a new path, even if with faltering and uncertain steps?

]]> http://imaginal.com.au/2008/04/22/energy-slaves/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Geoff Berry Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:45:31 +0000 http://imaginal.wordpress.com/?p=42#comment-71 I've often thought of this, and call our old dishwasher (broken for the last few months, i'm just not quite convinced we need it fixed) the kitchen slave. While relinquishing the need for black people to work for us privileged whites, the mechanisation of slavery (or service) does, as you suggest, develop the feeling it began with - that we can be dependent on some kind of energy that makes our lives more 'leisurely'. Of course, this freedom itself is not only based on subjugation (of blacks, then of the earth's resources) but on increasing attachment to capital and the system of over-consumption by which nature dies the death of 1,000 cuts... I’ve often thought of this, and call our old dishwasher (broken for the last few months, i’m just not quite convinced we need it fixed) the kitchen slave. While relinquishing the need for black people to work for us privileged whites, the mechanisation of slavery (or service) does, as you suggest, develop the feeling it began with – that we can be dependent on some kind of energy that makes our lives more ‘leisurely’. Of course, this freedom itself is not only based on subjugation (of blacks, then of the earth’s resources) but on increasing attachment to capital and the system of over-consumption by which nature dies the death of 1,000 cuts…

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