Sublime

In past centuries, every upper-class and most middle-class households would have employed a gardener, but today only 5 per cent of us still do so.

the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.

One person who was willing to risk political suicide was the visionary systems thinker Donella Meadows – one of the lead authors of the 1972 Limits to Growth report – and she didn’t mince her words. ‘Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture,’ she declared in the late 1990s; ‘we’ve got to have an enough.’ In response to t

hard work” is increasingly disconnected from economic outcomes

a stunted social imagination undermines our ability to adapt.

As Upton Sinclair wrote, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.’5

As Upton Sinclair wrote, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.’5