Title: A Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence (Albetruss House)
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0920256252
ISBN 13: 9780920256251
Binding: hardcover
Condition: New
Weight: 12 ounces

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Arguing that humans' lust for mechanized "progress" has damaged and endangered not only the planet but human communities, families, and friendships, the author calls for a return to simplicity by putting the human spirit ahead of material wealth.

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In this scattershot jeremiad, Mate takes on virtually all of modernity, concluding with a romantic paean to country life. A one-time city dweller who now lives in Tuscany, the author criticizes houses ("huge, unused barns"), "the myth of the steady job," corporate ownership, agricultural practices, cities and individualism--all in a shrill and hyperbolic prose style. He does have some worthy recommendations: why we should convert our lawns to gardens; how children should be taught defenses against advertising. But other ideas, like junking the television set ("Open an upstairs window . . . and throw the heinous sonovabitch as far as your arms let you!"), make him sound like a cranky Luddite. "Most of you might dismiss this as the raving of some idealist," acknowledges the author; indeed, he courts that assessment.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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