A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization, since it's limited by each individual's capacity to absorb unsettling stimuli (new combinations). — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive. Money is… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something. — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization,… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure -… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
“Individualism may be the greatest boon to authoritarianism since the whip, and has helped prolong it well beyond its natural lifespan. Its message is:… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it. — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
