Nature != Community and Individual != Consumer
Posted in Economic Illiteracy on Jul 8th, 2011
It is common in the nature-writing genre to associate an appreciation of nature with being part of a community. It is also common to erect a ginormous straw-man conflating the idea of “rugged individualism” with “consumerism” with each of those terms used extremely pejoratively. Here is an OK illustration of it (my books at home […]
