Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
The Ralston College Podcast
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The Technocracy of Shoemaking
When i was young, it wasn't expected that the shoes that you put on e first time fitted. Imean, you had to go through the blisters on thenon. And er, buying a new pair of shoes was, for me, not very pleasant activity ander. So why is it now i can just go and buy a pair of shoes, and i'm absolutely certain that i'll find a well fitting and very comfortable pair of shoes? Why we didn't have that in er between 19 50 and early 19 sixties?, he asks. "i suspect that the answer is, in a way, a technocratic solution"
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