Small IS beautiful

In the 70s in certain circles in the United States and much of the rest of the West, E.F. Schmacher's Small is Beautiful was widely read and discussed.

In the second decade of the 21st century, it would be nice if his admonitions were heard again, and maybe even followed.

But with the generations following its publication, non-conformity, independence, and individualism have fallen out of fashion. Instead group think, in all its manifestations (Facebook, Ipods, and the  ossification of liberal thinking...), has replaced them.