"The council was the Minimite form of self-government. It was their apparatus for reconciling differences and choosing technology. It was also the supreme test of willingness, or of self-surrender: only by first yielding power to one another and to what they regarded as the spirit of unity, a spirit from above, could the members wield it over machines" (p. 132).
"Put another way, Minimite councils depended on a secret similar to the one Mary and I had discovered while relaxing with the windows open in the evening: in true leisure there is mastery" (p. 133).
from: "Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology" by Eric Brende
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