Almost Away v3
Saturday, March 16, 2013
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture... In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us."
NEIL POSTMAN
(Thoughts on media and culture)
NEIL POSTMAN
(Thoughts on media and culture)
"Capitalism originally sought to police play and pleasure, because any attempt to replace work as the central life interest threatened the economic survival of the system. The family, the state, and religion engendered a variety of patterns of moral regulation to control desire and ensure compliance with the system of production. However, as capitalism developed, consumer culture and leisure time expanded. The principles that operated to repress the individual in the workplace and the home were extended to the shopping mall and recreational activity."
CHRIS ROJEK
(Thoughts on media and consumerism)
CHRIS ROJEK
(Thoughts on media and consumerism)
Sunday, January 06, 2013
"When many of the inhabitants of a country have become modified and improved, we can understad, on the principle of competition, and on that of the many all important relations of organism to organism, that any form which does not become in some degree modified and improved, will be liable to be exterminated."
CHARLES DARWIN. (Excerpt from "The Origin of Species") (Thoughts on evolution, economics and politics)
CHARLES DARWIN. (Excerpt from "The Origin of Species") (Thoughts on evolution, economics and politics)
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