the “zeitgeist” and the “state of the art”
My Green Horizon is primarily a print magazine. Back issues in toto can be read at the web site, but the articles are not web-based.
Last year Ralph Nader started up a magazine and decided it would be print-only. He says that “online is a gulag of clutter, diversion, ads, intrusions, and excess abundance.”
He’s right … and he has enough gravitas to get read without having a web presence. Most of us don’t. I don’t know of a single other publication that recently launched as print-only. The “zeitgeist” all but forces compliance with the “state of the art.” It’s regrettable to feel compelled to contribute to the noise, it’s regrettable to feel compelled to drive automobiles, it’s regrettable to feel compelled to fly all over the place, buy tomatoes from Bangladesh, be dependent upon electricity, move away from home, work for impersonal institutions, etc. etc. etc. etc.
