We do not live in the age of logic,
we live in the age of deception.
a friend
Schlagwort: Zeitgeist
Täuschik.
Harmlittle.
[...] made Nell oddly nostalgic for the days when dangerousness was a function of mass and bulk. The passives of that era were so fun to watch, with their big, stupid cars and big, stupid guns and big, stupid people.
Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age
Kontrollirrung.
Huxley showed that in the West, we need not control by coercion. We control by confusion.
Aufmoduliert.
Es ist 2018 und Leute lesen noch Teletext.
Generation Praktikum.
It was considered a good thing that there might be a few years in a young man’s or woman’s life where money was not the primary motivation; where he or she could thus be free to pursue other forms of value: say, philosophy, poetry, athletics, sexual experimentation, altered states of consciousness, politics, or the history of Western art. Nowadays it is considered important they should work.