INTRODUCTION

You may find this pamphlet a little bare and theoretical.
But in the world at large examples are everywhere.

The problem is that without the skeleton of structure to hang these examples on one cannot take them in. One cannot believe things are that bad. Surely all these examples are just incidental failures in a growing success story?

Whereas the truth is that the whole endeavour of the Society of Employment/Affluent Society/Consumer Society is rotten, and it is finished:

The goods and services of capitalist conglomerates are naturally poor; it is the successful business of integrity that is remarkable, and warrants magazine articles (eg. Laura Ashley, or The Body Shop).

Similarly with the unpolluted food, the product of grace and economy, the humanly desirable and civilising property development. ………..

The police are naturally corrupt because to keep order in a society without internal cohesion they have to use powers a free and just society could not tolerate. It is the honest copper that's a newsworthy surprise (eg. John Stalker)

And the bottom line: This society is destroying the planet (and that means us), not just incidentally but of its unfolding nature.

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