Chris Porter’s Reviews > Blood Orchid:: An Unnatural History of America > Status Update

‘Imagine the problem is that we cannot imagine a future where we possess less but are more. Imagine the problem is a future that terrifies us because we lose our machines but gain our feet and pounding hearts.’

“Pick up any newspaper, our obituary is everywhere on the pages. I am a member of the last generation that will ever confuse the idea of progress with the accumulation of more and more material things. I may be of the last generation that will be able to say the word ‘progress’ without a tone of mockery.”