bsmall2> When some thousands of small businesses are destroyed by urban renewal, we have lost thousands of valuable networks of communication, which are enormously difficult—for modern societies almost impossible—to re-create. Artists and anarchists and radicals are always trying to create small communities—it is this perhaps which sometimes links them with arch-conservatives and reactionaries, who are also romantically attached to small communities, but to those of the past.
bsmall2🧵 1963!!
> ... what if we were to fight not only for more jobs but for more useful and satisfying ones?
> ... consider..[how] we might affect the shape of our society: more social workers, caretakers, people to help the incapacitated...in trouble. Our proclivity for multiplying social agencies.. has.. produced a jungle in which the caretakers are frustrated..in which the energies of many of the best of them are drained by organizational maneuvering..
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> ... what if we were to fight not only for more jobs but for more useful and satisfying ones?
> ... consider..[how] we might affect the shape of our society: more social workers, caretakers, people to help the incapacitated...in trouble. Our proclivity for multiplying social agencies.. has.. produced a jungle in which the caretakers are frustrated..in which the energies of many of the best of them are drained by organizational maneuvering..
#uspol
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> ... this vision of the world of E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops,” in which the individual lives in a cell, hooked up with the central machine, the big organization, which sees to it that the cell is air-conditioned and provided with food and means of recreation. This is a world in which all forms of complicated connection between people seem to have been destroyed, in favor of their single connection to the machine.
#TheMachineStops by #EMForster sounds like Matrix?
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🧵 1963!!
> the organizations are more sophisticated, more in touch with advanced ideas than they used to be. Yet the paradoxical consequence is not that such ideas exert more influence than they once did, but that they are often robbed of their bite and of their influence on the general opinion by being fought against in a highly sophisticated manner...
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> the organizations are more sophisticated, more in touch with advanced ideas than they used to be. Yet the paradoxical consequence is not that such ideas exert more influence than they once did, but that they are often robbed of their bite and of their influence on the general opinion by being fought against in a highly sophisticated manner...
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