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Moog
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28 Sep 2011, 6:34 am

Some of you may be interested in this

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... opold-kohr

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what if big ideas are part of the problem? What if, in fact, the problem is bigness itself?

The crisis currently playing out on the world stage is a crisis of growth. Not, as we are regularly told, a crisis caused by too little growth, but by too much of it.


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28 Sep 2011, 6:51 am

That was interesting! Thanks for posting it. I had encountered the idea of human scale before in reference to design, and I like its application here.



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28 Sep 2011, 8:18 am

Too big NOT to fail? :wink: