Latest Stephanie Mills Quotes from Interviews

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• A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways.

  Stephanie Mills

  Life Changing, Home, Technology

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive, beautiful in its way, and challenging to the user in that it develops the user's senses and strength - it may comport with nature.

  Stephanie Mills

  Beautiful, Technology, Wind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose psyches have been shaped by a multitude of technologies. And there is no escaping the pervasive ecological effects.

  Stephanie Mills

  Psych, Technology, Escaping

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation?

  Stephanie Mills

  Technology, Innovation, Groups

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Agrarian Anabaptists, Christian Scientists, and Samurai are among the rare examples of renunciation stemming from an unwillingness to sacrifice the spiritual qualities of community life. Evidently there is no separate salvation.

  Stephanie Mills

  Christian, Spiritual, Sacrifice

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Respecting beings, places, and life ways would be a basis for a worthy systemic analysis. And such an analysis would be inherently conservative, assuming that technology - from the fire stick to the silicon chip - is apt to do more harm to the Whole than good.

  Stephanie Mills

  Technology, Fire, Would Be

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.

  Stephanie Mills

  Pain, Short Life, Sweat

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

  Stephanie Mills

  Opposites, Advertising, Banality

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Any prediction worth its weigh would consider the spiritual, material, and unintended consequences of introducing a new technology to the world. It would proceed from the kind of understanding Chellis articulated: Life is Whole.

  Stephanie Mills

  Spiritual, Technology, Understanding

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• There is onslaught is the accelerating momentum of technologies and instrumental mentalities that are exterminating spontaneity, undermining love and common decency. It's a thief of time and includes all the palpable and subtle violations of body, mind, and spirit done in the name of science, government, enterprise, progress, and profit.

  Stephanie Mills

  Technology, Government, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.

  Stephanie Mills

  Growth, Population, Economy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org