On the occasion of his birthday I sent my cousin a link

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“I thought you hated the internet?”

I hate all of modernity. The internet is simply the latest greatest extension of the folly.

I live within the morass. I live fully within it. I’m not an aescetic or a recluse.

I have little choice but to drive a car. The internet has become unavoidable. Ditto urbanization, mechanization, commercialization, institutionalization, medicalization and all the other myriad wonders.

It’s all of a piece.

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Steven Welzer

The editor of Green Horizon Magazine, Steve has been a movement activist for many years (he was an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review”).