1/5 Ivan Illich (quote from late 1970s), “I do believe that the exhaustion and pollution of the earth’s resources is above all the result of a corruption in man's self-image, or in other words, ..”
2/5 ..”of a regression in his consciousness which leads us to conceive man as an organism, ideally dependent not on direct contact with nature and with other persons, but rather on institutions, their services and products and goods.”
3/5 “This institutionalization of substantive value, this belief that escalation of treatment by an institution ultimately does give results by making better human beings, leads to a deep interiorization of the consumer ethos.”
4/5 “The great national and international programs for this decade, from the Poverty Act to the Pearson Report, do only sustain this trend. They start from the assumption that man is poor and sick and ignorant because he lacks institutional services ..” ...
5/5 ...”which might make him rich and healthy and knowledgeable.”
Quoting ‘Part Moon, Part Travelling Salesman: Conversations with Ivan Illich’
(2014) David Cayley davidcayley.com/podcasts/2014/…
Quoting ‘Part Moon, Part Travelling Salesman: Conversations with Ivan Illich’
(2014) David Cayley davidcayley.com/podcasts/2014/…
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