Lesslie Newbigin Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: December 8, 1909 - January 30, 1998
Birthday: December 8
Death: January 30
The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.
topic: Economic Order, Obsolescence, Human Activity
