Sunday, April 08, 2012

Postman: making the alternatives invisible

Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlines in Brave New World.  It does not make them illegal.  It does not make them immoral.  It does not even make them unpopular.  It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant.  And it does so by redefining what we mean by religion, by art, by family, by politics, by history, by truth, by privacy, by intelligence, so that our definitions fits its new requirements.  

Technopoly, p.48

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