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Welcome to the Desert of the Real

By Montag @ 7:46 PM
Filed under: The Wondrous Machine of Hollander A Taximen

October 23, 2009


Holy. Fucking. Shit.

THIS ISN’T THAT SCENE from The Matrix where Laurence Fishburne says, “we know it was us that scorched the sky,” as he shows Neo for the first time what the “real” world looks like. No, this is our present.

China Hush posts a whole series of disturbing photos depicting industrial pollution in China.

What was it Owen Paine said the other day about simple import substitution?

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4 Responses to “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”

  1. SK says:

    Saw the photos and felt very sick thinking the price of progress is too high if this is the impact.

  2. Montag says:

    indeed. much more “progress” and we’ll all be goners.

  3. Michael says:

    The price of progress = the end of progress.
    Still, who wants to pay more for plastic toys?

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