"An industrial capitalist society that does not recognize ecological limits but only perpetual economic expansion and has the profit motive as driver, will eventually consume and destroy itself."
"But we will all be taken down with it."
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Author: Kathryn Hughes
Image: Dreams, 1896, by Vittorio Matteo Corcos
The young woman has worked her way through three volumes published by Garnier, which shows she's both a sticker and probably quite a speedy reader too. It also suggests that she's been absorbing the kind of avant-garde literature not easily available to a well-to-do young bourgeoise. Hence her look. It's not "dreamy", as the title of the painting suggests, but rather acutely aware that she has eaten of the tree of knowledge and there really is no way back.