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More relevant today than when this was published in 1986 https://archive.org/download/wholeearthreview00unse_8/page/n...
It's unfortunate how cyclical our world seems to be. Repeating the same conversations endlessly, ad nauseam.
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Well, except for all the nonsense about ESP and the like. Stewart Brand and friends were ahead of the world in a lot of ways, such as realizing the need to reduce our ecological footprint and so on, but they were also unfortunately suckers for "paranormal" con-artists and other "New Age" nonsense that the 60s counterculture also was intrigued by.
What paranormal/new age stuff do you consider Point Foundation/WEC/CoEvolution/WER to have been suckered by?
https://wholeearth.info/p/the-fringes-of-reason?format=sprea...
I never grew up knowing the Whole Earth Catalog, but in the early '80s I was a precocious elementary school student who practically lived in any library I could get access to. My school library happened to have a copy of a particularly magical book that was loosely patterned after the WEC, the "Kids' Whole Future Catalog". https://paleofuture.com/blog/2007/4/27/the-kids-whole-future... I obsessively checked it out of…
In a lot of ways, it seems our simulation truly began in 1970.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, except for all the nonsense about ESP and the like. Stewart Brand and friends were ahead of the world in a lot of ways, such as realizing the need to reduce our ecological footprint and so on, but they were also unfortunately suckers for "paranormal" con-artists and other "New Age" nonsense that the 60s counterculture also was intrigued by.
What paranormal/new age stuff do you consider Point Foundation/WEC/CoEvolution/WER to have been suckered by?