A startling encounter. I will probably need to read it second time or more, a dense work. I think perhaps when it was written it was a bit hard to swallow - but certainly now with climate change and the never ending disappointment of market oriented technological progress, I think it would give many readers pause. Not much in the way of answers or even a path to an answer - Illich himself appears to conclude that the necessary changes to societies cannot occur without the utter (inevitable) collapse of current technological societies. Unfortunately there are too few historical precedents to believe that such a collapse would lead to a convivial society over one based on terror as history has more or less shown time and time again.

Sobering.