http://regeneratormag.com Come for the snark, stay for the radicalism. Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:40:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://regeneratormag.com/one-of-these-people-has-a-drinking-problem/ http://regeneratormag.com/one-of-these-people-has-a-drinking-problem/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:28:42 +0000 Robert Starvation http://regeneratormag.com/?p=18824 http://regeneratormag.com/one-of-these-people-has-a-drinking-problem/feed/ 0 http://regeneratormag.com/gribbenization/ http://regeneratormag.com/gribbenization/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:28:27 +0000 Robert Starvation http://regeneratormag.com/?p=18828 http://regeneratormag.com/gribbenization/feed/ 0 http://regeneratormag.com/best-of-2010-books-and-comics/ http://regeneratormag.com/best-of-2010-books-and-comics/#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:10:30 +0000 Re:Generator http://regeneratormag.com/?p=16597 http://regeneratormag.com/best-of-2010-books-and-comics/feed/ 0 http://regeneratormag.com/this-just-in-kids-look-up-dirty-words-in-dictionaries/ http://regeneratormag.com/this-just-in-kids-look-up-dirty-words-in-dictionaries/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:23:12 +0000 Sam Pagan http://regeneratormag.com/?p=14776 http://regeneratormag.com/this-just-in-kids-look-up-dirty-words-in-dictionaries/feed/ 0 http://regeneratormag.com/rethinking-rethinking-mathematics/ http://regeneratormag.com/rethinking-rethinking-mathematics/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:16:00 +0000 Wry Mouth http://regeneratormag.com/?p=14532 http://regeneratormag.com/rethinking-rethinking-mathematics/feed/ 0 http://regeneratormag.com/best-of-2009-books/ http://regeneratormag.com/best-of-2009-books/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:41:18 +0000 Re:Generator http://regeneratormag.com/?p=14308 Multnomah Country Library system. Without depleting their own bank accounts, those given "library cards" can keep up to date on the latest fiction and nonfiction stories publishing houses have mass-produced in antiquated hard-bound sheafs of paper called "books". These books, or "analog Kindles" as they are more commonly known, are conditionally lent out to readers. Unlike a pay service in the vein of Netflix or GameFly, the borrowed books are expected to be returned to a physical location within a set, albeit negotiable, time frame, so others can read them. As far as plots to enslave the American people under communism go, this is one of the least pernicious.

Henry Ford remains one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century. The legendary automaker wore many hats: industrialist, pacifist, visionary, anti-Semite. One of the strangest episodes of Ford's career, though, has been obscured by time. Author Greg Grandin dusted off that curiosity, and gave over nearly 400 pages to writing about Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City.

It's not just that Ford founded an ill-fortuned outpost in the middle of the Brazalian Amazon for the purpose of harvesting rubber. He Fordized it, designing it in such a way that it reflected his neurotic idiosyncrasies. With little respect for its jungle environment, Fordlandia was modeled after an idealized Midwestern town. In essence, it was a no-holds-barred cage match between the Ford way and reality, with reality, as it so often does, coming out on top.

Reading Fordlandia has the peculiar effect of making you feel like there's more history in the last century alone than can ever be known. If you're intent on trying to catch-up, there's no better place to start. —Robert Starvation

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