Amusing Ourselves to Death
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@OlufemiOTaiwo
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Jun 5, 2022
elite capture in an important corner of the information economy
Policy Tensor
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Jun 5, 2022
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Six corporations control 90% of media consumed by Americans, the most voracious consumers of media in the world. This degree of concentration in unprecedented. techstartups.com/202... See more
@OlufemiOTaiwo
·
Jun 5, 2022
elite capture in an important corner of the information economy
Policy Tensor
@policytensor
·
Jun 5, 2022
Replying to @policytensor
Six corporations control 90% of media consumed by Americans, the most voracious consumers of media in the world. This degree of concentration in unprecedented. techstartups.com/202... See more
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Intellectualism as a cesspool - maybe that’s a feature, not a bug.
On the importance of reading, responding, and writing to and for one another to advance ideas
Beyonce is Everything
youtube.comBeyoncé and her co-opted capitalist failed revolutionary politics
The death of the public intellectual
substack.com
I can’t help thinking of Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Benjamin suggests that fascistic governments aim to maintain the status quo by providing citizens with the means to express themselves aesthetically without reforming their lives materially. Thus the aforementioned government that Brandon thinks TikT
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Book notes from The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry from John Comer
“If the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you
busy”distracted #mowWe have an infinite appetite for distractions (Aldous Huxley)
People are too busy to live emotionally healthy, well-adjusted lives
Distinguishing healthy vs unhealthy busy
God didn’t create hurry, it’s Antichrist.
Love
Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban bo
... See moreNeil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Amazing intro and summary of differences between Orwell and Huxley.
