- Self - Host: After years of gilded hardship, the planter's dream was to use his profits to buy estates in England, and retire to live surrounded again by laborers destitute and poverty-stricken. But English.
- Self - Host: Course, the other side of the coin is that if you live in a fun world, you've got to pay for the ride. The onward and upward style of western life, the good times, the throwaway philosophy that goes with building a new model every year so that everybody can keep their jobs and they can increase their standard of living, is really a 19th century way of doing things. That's what the Industrial Revolution gave us: the desire for more, bigger, better, cheaper, faster. And back then, there was hardly anybody around to make much of a dent in the raw materials they started to dig up to turn into amazing luxuries--or bare necessities, as we would call them now. Today, whole countries rely almost totally on the raw materials they have that we want. Chrome, copper, gold, silver, tin, platinum, or in this case bauxite. And you've seen it's easy enough to get at. Sure, we can alter the shape of the planet with our newfound industrial muscle. We can turn it into a giant hole in the ground. Then what?
- Self - Host: Life today consists of thousands of identical bits made by other people for you to buy. Just like, they buy what you make with the money they earn from selling you the things they make. And then once a year, everybody stops doing it to each other, and does it with the tourist industry. And they're just as mass produced as everybody else. Just as dependent on the power that we all take so much for granted, you're not quite sure what I'm talking about. Power? Look at all this in terms of what you couldn't have if you had to make it and move it with your own bare hands.