1 β€œAs #ChristopherLasch acutely observed, dangerous psychotic delusions - a celebration of disembodied intelligence and an escapist fantasy of total control and absolute …” 🧡 #technology
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#Hivemind: the book I’m reading, Progress Without People by #DavidFNoble refers to β€œa number of short #essays on #technological #progress by #ChristopherLasch but, frustratingly, doesn’t provide any further details about them. Does anyone know what he might be referring to?
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Good column from Kenan Malik appealing for a turn from the psychological to the social.

The sharp witted and thought provoking Observer columns from Kenan Malik and Martha Gill compensate for the tiresomely unfunny Adrian Chiles during the week.

We think loneliness is in our heads, but its source lies in the ruin of civil society | Loneliness | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/mar/24/we-think-loneliness-is-in-our-heads-but-its-source-lies-in-the-ruin-of-civil-society

#KenanMalik #MarthaGill #AdrianChiles #TheObserver #TheGuardian #BritishJournalism #ChristopherLasch

We think loneliness is in our heads, but its source lies in the ruin of civil society

Forty years ago, a US historian claimed that social changes were severing communal bonds. He was right

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