Quote I found in the book Pulse: the coming age of systems and machines

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inspired by living things - by Robert Frenay (2006).

The quote is found on page 345 and is by Paul Hawken and William McDonough when they describe the effect of artificial efficiencies:


"Simply stated, the present market is giving us the wrong information. It tells us that flying across the country on a discount ticket is cheap when it is not. It tells us that our food is inexpensive when its method of production (is costly and unsustainable). Whenever an organism gets the wrong information, it's a form of toxicity. In fact, that's how pesticides work. An herbicide is a hormone that kills by telling the plant to grow faster than its capacity to absorb nutrients. It literally grows itself to death. Sound familiar?"

The same could be said of politicians who build policy on lies.

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1. FDR'S VP err... Wilson was it? said...

"Beware the false efficiency of fascism"

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2. That's another good one. n/t