The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) / quote 101 of 125
Technology should reduce labor
and from what I have glimpsed through them, I would say that Western technology could be pruned back, and pruned back hard. Most of it strikes me as having gone off at a tangent; it’s not even relevant. Personally, I want an apartment and a job like I want a hole in the head. You can shove your cars and your planes and your creepy nerdy Internet. Come to it, you can shove your precious electricity itself—or three-quarters of it, anyway. For myself I’d stand by the hippie yardstick, that the purpose of technology is to reduce the amount of labor we are forced to do to survive. The working day could be shrunk immediately to four hours a day, the rest of the day being for people to do whatever they see fit.