@eddiebbot 2/2 opportunities in life and live longer, but we live diminished lives and do not have the same vital force. We have to compensate for new deficiencies by artificial procedures that in turn produce other new deficiencies. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988)
#dystopia #technology 1/2 Our health is much more fragile. We have less resistance to grief, to fatigue, and to privation. We have less resistance to lack of nourishment, variations in climate, and internal and external stresses. We are more susceptible to infections. Our senses are less sharp, especially sight and hearing. Our nerves are much more fragile (we suffer more from insomnia and distress). We have to take more precautions and are more easily laid up by little things. We have more
But clearly it is the intelligent minorities which need to make us of propaganda continuously and systematically. In the active proselytizing minorities in whom selfish interests and public interests coincide lie the progress and development of America. Only through the active energy of the intelligent few can the public at large become aware of and act upon new ideas. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)
#propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine@ebbot 2/2 the social unit. Touch a nerve at a sensitive spot and you get an automatic response from certain specific members of the organism. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)
#propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine1/2 As a matter of fact, the practice of propaganda since the war has assumed very different forms from those prevalent twenty years ago. This new technique may fairly be called the new propaganda. It takes account not merely of the individual, nor even of the mass mind alone, but also and especially of the anatomy of society, with its interlocking group formations and loyalties. It sees the individual not only as a cell in the social organism but as a cell organized into
@eddiebbot 2/2 during the "beautiful season," and there is more work in winter. This disturbs life's rhythm. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988)
#dystopia #technology 1/2 The breaking of seasonal rhythms is a familiar problem. All organisms are at the height of their vigor and powers in spring and summer. In autumn and winter (until hibernation), all organisms lose their vital force. They are reduced, becoming less resistant and more fragile. Rural work follows the seasonal rhythm; there is less to do in winter. But industry, dictated by technique, which allows and now demands vacations, reverses the rhythm. Vacations and rest come
@eddiebbot 2/3 superficial human contacts, the tension of more and more crowded timetables. It is exhausting to live in a world in which everything is timed to the minute, in which there is never any time for rest. Another reason for nervous tension is that in our life today we no longer keep pace with the seasonal rhythms. Artificial light has made it possible to live as much at night as during the day. It has broken one of life's most basic rhythms. --Jaques Ellul The Technological
1/3 A 1980 study (by the Conf??d??ration fran??aise et d??mocratique du travail) shows that insomnia is the basic problem of modern workers, and epidemiological studies show that heart and nervous problems have now spread to the working class. Yet we have to point out that nervous fatigue is not due solely to the change in work. It is due to the modern life-style in general, the constant need to do everything faster, increasing life rhythms (fast food!), the multiplying of
