Review of the original Whole Earth Catalog [video]

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2 pointsdevinjon3 comments

I spent a lot of time with my dad's old catalogs in the 1980s. This review looks like it's by a guy who got it in his youth when it was new. As a Gen X-er I'd to see what Gen-Z reviewers make of them.

"We are as gods and might as well get good at it". "Ok boomer".

Yeah, if memory serves, the reviewer in this case was 'housing' editor at Whole Earth. At the time he was into geodesic domes and Buckminster Fuller, a worldview and technology he would shortly disavow.

The reviewer's blog is worth a look if you're up for a bit of architectural hippydom. [1]

As for Gen X. Well, My Morning Jack apparently did an album inspired by the Whole Earth Catalog. [2]

[1] https://www.lloydkahn.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Distortion

Review by Lloyd Kahn of Shelter Publications.

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