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Trained relentlessly to work and consume, we make daily lifestyle decisions that promote corporate profits more than our own well-being. We also find ourselves working more, living in fragmented communities, and neglecting our most basic spiritual and political values. As Curtis White puts it, âIn order to live, you will be asked to do what is no good, what is absurd, trivial, demeaning, and soul killing.â Although we belong to the worldâs most affluent society, somehow we never have the chance to ask: How shall we live?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith his trademark humor and acerbic wit, White raises this impertinent question. He also debunks the conventional view that liberalism can answer it without drawing on spiritual values. Surveying American popular culture (including \u003ci\u003eOffice Space\u003c/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Da Vinci Code\u003c/i\u003e) to illustrate his points, White urges us to renew our commitment to âhuman fundamentalsâ as articulated by Henry David Thoreau-especially free time, home, and food-and to reclaim Thoreauâs spirit of disobedience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeeking imaginative answers to his central questions, White also interviews John De Graaf (\u003ci\u003eAffluenza\u003c/i\u003e), James Howard Kunstler (\u003ci\u003eThe Long Emergency\u003c/i\u003e) and Michael Ableman (\u003ci\u003eFields of Plenty\u003c/i\u003e) about their views of the good life in our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e |
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