1. Kirkpatrick Sale was born on June 27,1937 and is an American author who has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology.
15 Facts About Kirkpatrick Sale
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Kirkpatrick Sale graduated from Cornell University, majoring in English and history, in 1958.
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Kirkpatrick Sale served as associate editor and editor-in-chief of the student-owned and managed newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun.
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Kirkpatrick Sale was one of the leaders of the May 23,1958, protest against university policies forbidding male and female students fraternizing and its in loco parentis policy.
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Kirkpatrick Sale worked initially in journalism for the leftist journal New Leader, "a magazine founded in 1924 in part by socialists Norman Thomas and Eugene Debs," and The New York Times Magazine, before becoming a freelance journalist.
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Kirkpatrick Sale spent time in Ghana and wrote his first book about it.
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Kirkpatrick Sale "has been a regular contributor to progressive magazines like Mother Jones and The Nation for the better part of his writing career".
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Mr Kirkpatrick Sale makes Columbus out to be cruel, greedy and incompetent, and a man who was perversely intent on abusing the natural paradise on which he intruded.
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Kirkpatrick Sale "has written extensively and skeptically about technology," and has said he is "a great admirer" of anarchoprimitivist John Zerzan.
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Kirkpatrick Sale has described personal computers as "the devil's work" and in the past opened personal appearances by smashing one.
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Kirkpatrick Sale has a comprehensive knowledge of what is called the American Songbook and was active in the folk revival of the 1960s with Peter Yarrow, Pete Seeger, and the Clancy Brothers, but has said that he does not "care much for" pop music after that era.
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In 1995, Kirkpatrick Sale agreed to a public bet with Kevin Kelly that by the year 2020, there would be a convergence of three disasters: global currency collapse, significant warfare between rich and poor, and environmental disasters of some significant size.
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Kirkpatrick Sale then refused to acknowledge the loss, and did not pay the $1000 that had been previously agreed.
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Kirkpatrick Sale wrote the foreword to Thomas Naylor's 2008 book Secession: How Vermont and all the Other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire.
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In 2019, Kirkpatrick Sale married his long-time partner Shirley Branchini in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.