Connecting Dots

What connects the topics listed below?
The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico; farm practices on the Great Plains; the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer; antibiotic resistance; dying rural towns; rising obesity rates; cancer; urban sprawl and oil wars.

David Cronenberg 1906

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

Andre Gide 1869-1951

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of the cheap price is forgotten.

John Ruskin

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

Louis Nizer

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man that works with his hands and brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

John Ruskin

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power and pleasure.


When we build let us think that we build forever. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon our labor and wrought substance of them, "See! This our father did for us."

Is Industrialism Immoral?

Industrialism is a philosophy based upon an idea that resources have no limits and that our ability to consume has no limits. I believe this idea to be naive and narcissistic but is it immoral?
Is it immoral to consciously deplete resources and to degrade creation without making a return for future generations? Is it immoral to destroy cultures for temporal gain?

It is not a sin to be naive but it is to be narcissistic, materialistic, greedy and destructive.