A deep instinct
Sep. 26th, 2011 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a_kleber«They want to save work, but they want to cook their own meals and not eat meals chosen by other people and delivered in thermos containers. A deep instinct warns them not to destroy the family, which in the modern world is the sole refuge from the State, but all the while the forces of the machine age are slowly destroying the family. So they look on while our culture perishes, and yet irrationally cling to such fragments of it as the whitened doorstep and the open fireplace.»
22. Review:The Reilly Plan by Lawrence Wolfe (in The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell Volume IV, In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950)
«A Reilly "unit" consists of about 250 houses grouped round five or six greens: most of the greens are roughly oval in shape, and the number of houses surrounding them will vary from 30 to 60. Each unit has its own Community Centre, nursery school, shopping centre, restaurant and meals service, and is self-contained to the extent that no main traffic roads run through it.(...)»
22. Review:The Reilly Plan by Lawrence Wolfe (in The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell Volume IV, In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950)
«A Reilly "unit" consists of about 250 houses grouped round five or six greens: most of the greens are roughly oval in shape, and the number of houses surrounding them will vary from 30 to 60. Each unit has its own Community Centre, nursery school, shopping centre, restaurant and meals service, and is self-contained to the extent that no main traffic roads run through it.(...)»
