#170- The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
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Is It All Elvis's Fault?
I think the Quaker's probably certainly were, you know, with their sort of distributed church service. Well, if we read Marcel a long, long time ago and he was talking about getting technology before you have the virtues to deal with it, well, when did we get mass media? 1930. I don't know what would be the tipping point. It probably is mass media, either newspaper or radio, probably radio more than newspaper. Yeah. We have newspaper radio and movies, donkeys. But then it's a cultural thing,You know, it's culture is politics downstream from culture. And I think that's more important than people think. They think that you can just argue
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