Here's hubris for you ...

[fivemack]

For every cheap plastic toy that is made, every ramshackle washing-machine that rolls into the containers for export, every mighty CGI scene rendered in every big-budget B-movie, signifies, in the final sense, labour diverted from the making of cheap plastic landmines; steel not launched as warships; smart minds not working towards the firing of rockets.

Comments

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

I hadn't got past finding it incredibly to look round my flat at all the objects and think somebody (or bodies) designed that, people sat down and made up the molds to run the plastic presses, thought about how big it should be, what colour, how curved. Just about everything around me is the product of human design, whether purely aesthetic or purely functional or more usually a combination.

[tombee.livejournal.com]

... And the last thing we need is competition for our one remaining manufacturing industry.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

G.H.Hardy would have been proud ;-)

so, every day i waste in the dregs of academia is a day i'm not out making weapons of war? maybe it's even worth it then.

-m-

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Every ploughshare, and every ploughed field, is peace, yes.