WHY IS SMALLER TECH MORE BEAUTIFUL OR FULFILLING?
ARAL BALKAN's SMALL-TECH
E.F. SCHUMACHER's Small IS BEAUTIFUL
FREESCHOOL's EDUCATION AS EVOLUTIONARY FREEDOM
What's the point of these things?
SHORT ANSWERS:
less politically mixed / more conventrated
less polluted with other tech / more specific
less trojan-horsed / more customisable / pick and choose
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL for these reasons!
* because you have more: CONTROL / QUALITY / APPRECIATION / PERSONAL RECIPROCATION / ALIGNMENT / MEANING / INDEPENDENCE / INDEPENDENT CHOICE (or less dependency more exactly)
THE ANSWER OVERALL TO THESE QUESTIONS of why is because of that list and control / choice we have overall...
IN ALL PARTS OF LIFE SMALLER INTERACTION (OR MORE PERSONAL) IS OFTEN BETTER / MORE BEAUTIFUL *TO THE INDIVIDUAL*
If you scale up you lose this critical point about individual satisfaction and hand-on direct control / customisation (that list would go here)
SUMMARY
So I think yes the basics of small respect the individual more, from in a small field for planting plants using your hands (low tech / low consumption), to setting up a small old computer for family (low foot-print technology)..
I have more to say and understand that BigTech has largely enabled us but it's not out of our hands completely and we can bend that for-profit-tree-of-life to something less profit orientated if we can solve the banking a bit more often in our transactions and interactions.
The *realisation* to the above is really key to why we like things in smaller / narrow ranges... *and then* the next stage is realising how to get out / reduce the big consumption based for-profit systems more often.
Bill Gates has bought perhaps half the agricultural land I heard and I think that is very telling of the way we need to also go while using bigtech and solving what it has provided us wastefully over 20-ish or 30ish short years more exponentially...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful
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