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We recall that miracle of progress, Silicon Valley. The success and growth of this new conglomerate produced a new and completely crazy proletariat in 1950, with salaries the lowest in the USA, overpopulation in a distant suburb, extreme industrial pollution, a high rate of divorce and infanticide, high-density population, etc. This is the result of high tech at its extreme. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
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What is needed is a new revolutionary movement, dedicated to the elimination of technological society, that will take measures to exclude all leftists, as well as the assorted neurotics, lazies, incompetents, charlatans, and persons deficient in self-control who are drawn to resistance movements in America today. --Ted Kaczynki, Technological Slavery (2010) #dystopia #technology
...pollution, health problems, protective measures, nuisances of all kinds. Growth carries with it costs that change all calculations according to whether we include them. There has been agricultural destruction in order to promote industrial development (e.g., in the Tennessee Valley in the USA or the juran??on vineyard in France). --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
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Four propositions concerning the use of technology: First, all technical progress has its price. Second, at each stage it raises more and greater problems than it solves. Third, its harmful effects are inseparable from its beneficial effects. Fourth, it has a great number of unforeseen effects. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
@Daniel_Hoffmann Broad reading of the online novel "Manna" seems more urgent than ever.
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We are set in an ambiguous universe in which each technical advance accentuates the complexity of the mixture of positive and negative elements. The more progress there is in this field, the more inextricable is the relation between the good and the bad, the more choice becomes impossible, and the less we can escape the ambivalent effects of the system. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
My meaning is that technical development is neither good, bad, nor neutral. It is a complex mixture of positive and negative elements. Some are good and some are bad, if we want to use moral terms. It is impossible to dissociate them and thus to achieve a purely good technique. Also, good results do not depend at all on the use which we make of technical equipment. In effect, even in such use we ourselves are modified in turn. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
Analyses which appear very rigorous, which are built on statistics, and which make no reference to these problems are the most dangerous. For they, too, are ideological, but they pretend to be purely scientific and have an appearance of strictness that one does not find in more rhetorical but more honest studies. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
I who have never known men, is today’s audible daily deal:
My Review:
I only found out that the author is Jewish during the epilogue, but as a Jewish man myself, I could not ignore the, concentration camp taken to extreme, premise of the novel.
Written at the end of the 20th century, I Who Have Never Known Men, takes the worst excesses of said century's totalitarian ideologies and makes them worse.
The victims of the camps at least knew about the ideologies that marked them as enemies and treated them so. They could also hope for a better future. Harpman takes even these small glimmers of sanity away from these women.
The question weather they are still on Earth was also an aspect that spoke to me as a Jew. As Jews tried to come to terms with the Holocaust, at first there was a feeling that the events of the Holocaust were so horrifying that they could not have happened in our world, that they happened in a different world, on a different planet.
Yehiel Dinur, who wrote some of the earliest novels about the Holocaust under the name: Ka Tzetnik, famously referred in his testimony at the Ichman trial to the events that he witnessed in Auschwitz as happening on another planet, on Planet Auschwitz.
It is hard to view his testimony without seeing how the ideas behind it surely influenced Jacqueline Harpman.
Summery of his Testimoney from Wikipedia:
" I do not see myself as a writer who writes literature. This is a chronicle from the planet Auschwitz. I was there for about two years. The time there is not the same as it is here, on Earth. (…) And the inhabitants of this planet had no names. They had no parents and no children. They did not wear [clothes] the way they wear here. They were not born there and did not give birth... They did not live according to the laws of the world here and did not die. Their name was the number K. Tzetnik."
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0D6X53T9R?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp
History is made by active, determined minorities, not by the majority, which seldom has a clear and consistent idea of what it really wants. Until the time comes for the final push toward revolution, the task of revolutionaries will be less to win the shallow support of the majority than to build a small core of deeply committed people. --Ted Kaczynki, Technological Slavery (2010) #dystopia #technology
It is astounding constantly to find among their affirmations the belief that everyone will have access to data banks, to all useful information, to any necessary files. But who is this "everyone"? The reference is merely to other technicians. Immigrant workers, poor farmers, and the young unemployed are not going to consult data banks. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors.
Those who have technical knowledge in any field have power. Those who do not have this technical knowledge have no power, even though they are eminent ministers or generals. For the latter are directly, strictly dependent on those around them that know the appropriate techniques, without whom they would be completely helpless. They are unable to reach any decisions without computers and technical experts. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
Joy-Ann Reid provocatively argues that Trump’s comments on fewer Christmas gifts for kids reveal a shocking ignorance of the economic strain families face. By likening him to historical figures who ignored hardship, she paints a picture of a dystopian future under his proposed reforms, highlighting severe impacts on marginalized communities. Reid underscores Trump’s unfitness for economic leadership due to his history of failures and legal issues. Read more: https://www.joyannreid.com/p/the-daily-reid-donald-antoinette #politics #Trump #economy #Project2025 #dystopia #JoyAnnReid
Never Have I Ever: “Black Mirror” Edition https://www.inbella.com/1033703/never-have-i-ever-black-mirror-edition/ #ai #BlackMirror #BlackMirrorEpisode1 #BlackMirrorSeason7 #buzzfeed #BuzzfeedAustralia #BuzzfeedCeleb #BuzzfeedOz #BuzzfeedVideo #CommonPeople #dystopia #FemaleCelebrities #Future #IssaRae #netflix #NetflixAustralia #NeverHaveIEver #RashidaJones #technology #TraceeEllisRoss #WhereToWatchBlackMirror
#geopolitics #oil #shell #bp Watch this space. When any of the 'big sisters' start dropping whispers something is afoot. Note well that #Musk and #Trump are significant stakeholders in #Exxon and #Texaco #USPolitics . My instinct is that they (shell + bp) are 'securing their independence' should they go really batshit crazee over there. Buy #gold futures (if I was making a market). #dystopia predicates #security for your average #oligarch #trillionaire #justsaying
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/04/shell-reportedly-weighing-up-merits-of-making-move-to-buy-bp?CMP=share_btn_url
