The Law of the Land & the Lie of the Free Lunch
The Law of the Land & the Lie of the Free Lunch A corrupted economics provides us with a false model of human reality. Its incubation as a proposal for collective living rendered inevitable what has happened to our freedoms and our futures. John Waters Although its meaning has in modern times eclipsed the Greek, Kantian and even Christian concepts of the phrase ‘the good life’, I had not until recently truly grasped the precise resonance of the ‘good’ part in the phrase as commonly used nowadays — the ‘Good Life’, as in ‘escaping the rat race’, seeking to create a worthwhile, honest and meaningful existence in proximity to nature, generating the means of one’s own existence, et cetera , i.e. the meaning implied by the eponymous title of the 1970s BBC comedy series starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith. But, now I think I get it, after reading Roy Sebag’s short (no more than 15,000 words) new book called The Natural ...