The Agrarian Foundation Books by Jerry Mander

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The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn Toward the Local
Mander is co-editor of this fascinating book along with Edward Goldsmith.  In 43 chapters, the global economy is analyzed, looking at how it developed, what drives it, how it has failed, and how we might relocalize our economy.  In addition to the editors, the authors include writers such as Wendell Berry, Kirkpatrick Sale, Helena Norberg-Hodge, William Greider, Herman Daly, and Jeremy Rifkin.

Mander and many of these authors seem to have roots more in the Political and social Left than we do here at The Agrarian Foundation. Therefore, like many Marxists of old they are far stronger and insightful on 'Critique' than they are on 'Solution'. We here at The Agrarian Foundation are happy to see them champion some form of Landed property, Localism and sustainable self-reliance at the 'Communitarian' level of social life. However, they do sometimes fall back into the trap of trading the dominance of Big-Business (Multi-National Corporations) -- for the dubious solution of Big Government. Nevertheless, their critiques of the Modern status-quo, and their solutions are very simulating and helpful, and make these men worth reading carefully.

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
This classic book, written in 1978, maintains that TV should be eliminated.   And he's not kidding.  Mander's background in the advertising industry, and his later rejection of those same roots, give him a decided edge at describing the problems associated with television.  His arguments fall into four areas: 1) The mediation of experience, 2) The colonization of experience, 3) Effects of TV on the human being, and 4) The inherent biases of television.  This book goes well with Neal Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death.

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