¶ Afford (3)
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Afford:
Ecology Action had said he was engaged in ‘changing what was politically feasible.’ That’s what Fuller was doing too. And the obstacle for both of them was the sort of timidity of expectation I had just manifested.
Fuller spoke radically, that is, from the root of the thing. He assumed that people had the right to expect industry to stop poisoning them. And the right would be recognized only when enough consumers and citizens stopped believing industry’s propaganda about what was politically and economically feasible.
