August 28, 2004: The Simple Life - Eric Brende

Art Bell interviews Eric Brende, a Yale and MIT graduate who abandoned modern technology to live for 18 months with a group he calls the Minimites, a strict Anabaptist community that prohibits electricity, motor vehicles, and all automated machinery. Brende, who describes himself as a technological subversive, infiltrated MIT specifically to gather evidence against the assumption that more technology automatically improves life. His book Better Off chronicles the experiment he and his fiancee… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-28-2004-the-simple-life-eric-brende