In the Presence of Fear, to me was very different from anything I have ever read for an English class thus far. Something from the three essays I agree with would have to be on page 3, "We had accepted uncritically the belief that technology is only good; that it cannot serve evil as well as good; that it cannot serve our enemies as well as ourselves; that it cannot be used to destroy what is good, including our homelands and our lives." I can agree to this because I believe people do see technology as being only good and beneficial for us in society. But I see the technology as something that is always necessarily good. With the superior advancements in technology is potentially making things more problematic than without it. For example, have you ever stopped and thought about how many jobs are being lost due to robots taking our place? Granted some robotic machines are needed in order to produce things we need, but not completely. This is just one way that technology isn't always good for us.
On the other hand, something that I can disagree with would be in the second essay The Idea of a Local Economy on page 29, "In such a state of economic ignorance it is not possible to choose products that were produced locally or with reasonable kindness toward people and toward nature." I think people do have a choice if they want to consume things that are locally made. If people would open their eyes and realize what great things come from their communities, whether it is locally grown food or other products, we wouldn't have the so called "ignorance". Some people cannot afford things that are locally produce based on the simple fact that it is more expensive than things made on a higher production scale. Is this technically our fault, or the flaws of those in large manufacturing?
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I agree with your disagreement toward the second essay. I believe it's a fault in large manufacturing! It's easier to go buy cheap food from the wally world than go find a local farmers market,also I agree not many people have the opportunity to get local grown food, in big cities like Columbus or Atlanta for example, it's impossible to have your own garden big enough to feed yourself for more than a week!
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