industrialism

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Meaning

Devotion to industrial pursuits; labor; industry.

The principles or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor.

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I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. Frank Lloyd Wright

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant. Harold Innis

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 million took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare. Mahatma Gandhi

Left hemisphere industrialism has blinded the Chinese to the effects of our alphabet: pattern recognition is in the right hemisphere. Marshall McLuhan

Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration. Paul Hawken

In short, industrialism is over. Paul Hawken

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