Thread by @wrathofgnon

“Our children are brought up to admire mechanical contraptions and if they hear for the first time a statement like ‘a rocket that takes you to the moon is very crude compared to a mosquito’, they think you are teasing them, it has never occurred to them to look at it this way.”

“So they've got everything upside down.”
— E.F. Schumacher

“What we can fully understand, what we can make ourselves, we don't have to have any reverence for, we can replicate it. But what we can't make, that we have to treat as a marvel, as the marvel it is and miracle it is.”
— E.F. Schumacher

“How is it that our ancestors created all this tremendous culture, these fantastic cathedrals, when the GNP was a tiny fraction of what it is now?”
— E.F. Schumacher

“And now that the richer—allegedly—we get we find it an intolerable strain to even keep these cathedrals in repair. How did they do it? They did it with minimal technology?”
— E.F. Schumacher

“We are now far too clever to be able to survive without wisdom.”
— E.F. Schumacher