Standing on the corner of the Long & Less Traveled Road & the Highway to Nowhere

In the Great Resignation, the historical and the future reconnaissance in the disruptive reconstruction of a better world to come.

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The Industrial Revolution is the matrix of discontent that connects several seemingly disparate historical movements that reacted against the large industrial factories that eventually morphed into the corporate world order, dividing the entire world into developed and developing nations, and low-income and high-income labor markets, countries, and people that produce things, and countries and people that have passive incomes.

Karl Marx, the Luddites, the Arts and Crafts movement, midcentury designers, Andersen Design (author’s historical background), Andy Warhol (in an odd sort of way), and remote working are among the evolution of the counter-culture resistance to dehumanization of work that proliferated in the factories of the Industrial Revolution.

The human industrial revolution has been evolving since the beginning of civilization but the period that is known as “the Industrial Revolution” is particularly marked by its dehumanization of the work process, whe…