Sid forwarded Kirk Sale's Luddite piece, I presume with something like implied approval. I didn't re-read it this time, but when I read it in The Nation it seemed largely drivel. What is progressive about machine-bashing? This greenish localist nostalgifying crap is unbearably sentimental and claustrophobic. God save us from picturesque evocations of a past that never was. Doug _________________________ "The past that never was", may be a very important thing to save. It fits in with the idea of "political unconscious". Cheers, ajit sinha
