Songs of the Simple Life
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by Tim Holt
The simple pleasures of planting seeds and tilling the soil, of bicycling on the open road, of printing a book on an old-fashioned letterpress...Tim Holt draws on his own rich experiences in this collection of writings.
And while he can write beautifully and lyrically, Holt can also cut down to the bone, to the very core of contemporary American society:
"We modern consumers lead an oddly passive and cramped existence, going from home to car to office to car to shopping mall to car and back home, rarely making or growing anything for ourselves, rarely getting out in the open and walking from one place to another.
Just as the ever-toiling, subservient peasant of the Middle Ages was essential to the existence of the nobility, so our modern, obeisant consumer, content with his or her carefully defined and circumscribed patch of existence, enables the modern corporation to exist and flourish...God forbid that we should get out of our cars and take a walk in the woods. It might start a revolution!"
The simple pleasures of planting seeds and tilling the soil, of bicycling on the open road, of printing a book on an old-fashioned letterpress...Tim Holt draws on his own rich experiences in this collection of writings.
And while he can write beautifully and lyrically, Holt can also cut down to the bone, to the very core of contemporary American society:
"We modern consumers lead an oddly passive and cramped existence, going from home to car to office to car to shopping mall to car and back home, rarely making or growing anything for ourselves, rarely getting out in the open and walking from one place to another.
Just as the ever-toiling, subservient peasant of the Middle Ages was essential to the existence of the nobility, so our modern, obeisant consumer, content with his or her carefully defined and circumscribed patch of existence, enables the modern corporation to exist and flourish...God forbid that we should get out of our cars and take a walk in the woods. It might start a revolution!"
