To dread frequent shipments from their homes
"There are two roads from where we are to technological maturity: one is the road ofliberation from affluence; the other is the road of liberation from dependence. Both roads have the same destination: the social restructuring of space that offers to each person the constantly renewed ex-perience that the centre of the world is where he stands, walks and lives. Liberation from affluence begins on the traffic islands where the rich run into one another. The well-sped are tossed from one island to the next and are offered but the company offellow passengers en route to somewhere else. This solitude of plenty breaks down as the traffic islands gradually expand and people begin to recover their native power to move around the place where they live. Thus, the impoverished environment of the traffic island can embody the beginnings ofsocial reconstruction, and the people who now call themselves rich will break with bondage to overefficient transport on the day they come to treasure the horizon of their traffic islands, now fully grown, and to dread frequent shipments from their homes." (Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity)
I'm sorry fot the long quotation but it is necessary. What does the emphasized phrase say exactly?
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alibey1917 What does the emphasized phrase say exactly? It's impossible to say what this word salad says, even approximately. The whole passage seems an elaborate metaphor unmoored from reality.
- alibey1917 What does the emphasized phrase say exactly?
- It's impossible to say what this word salad says, even approximately.
- The whole passage seems an elaborate metaphor unmoored from reality.
- This is one of those cases where you have to have read the whole book up to this point — and with full understanding — in order to understand just this one passage.
- The text reads like the sort of English you see in translations from other languages.
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alibey1917What does the emphasized phrase say exactly?
It's impossible to say what this word salad says, even approximately. The whole passage seems an elaborate metaphor unmoored from reality.
This is one of those cases where you have to have read the whole book up to this point — and with full understanding — in order to understand just this one pa
0I read the first line and said to myself, "Illich, again." The Austrian polyglot has taken the word "shipment" and made it his own without permission. He meant that people will dread being forced to go beyond the boundaries of their little worlds, being themselves "shipped" out.
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