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Showing posts with label Book Review. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Fordlandia: The Failure Of [Henry] Ford's Jungle Utopia [in the Amazon, 1927]

"Ford was so distrustful of experts that he never even consulted one about rubber trees. If he had, Grandin says, he would have learned that plantation rubber can't be grown in the Amazon."

Sunday, October 31, 2010

In the name of godlessness FROM The Economist

"For Mr Blom, the modern, supposedly secular world has merely dressed up the 'perverse' morality of Christianity in new and better camouflaged ways. We still hate our bodies, he says, still venerate suffering and distrust pleasure."

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