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The Unabomber Was Right
by possibly noteworthy at 1:02 pm EST, Feb 21, 2009

Kevin Kelly:

There is a cost to run this machine, a cost we are only beginning to reckon with, but so far the gains from this ever enlarging technium outweigh the alternative of no machine at all.

Samantha Power:

There are great benefits to connectedness, but we haven't wrapped our minds around the costs.

Louis Menand:

Television was the Cold War intellectuals’ nightmare, a machine for bringing kitsch and commercialism directly into the home. But by exposing people to an endless stream of advertising, television taught them to take nothing at face value, to read everything ironically. We read the horror comics today and smile complacently at the sheer over-the-top campiness of the effects. In fact, that is the only way we can read them. We have lost our innocence.


The Unabomber Was Right
by bucy at 6:45 pm EST, Feb 23, 2009

The ultimate problem is that the paradise the Kaczynski is offering, the solution to civilization so to speak, is the tiny, smoky, dingy, smelly wooden prison cell that absolutely nobody else wants to dwell in. It is a paradise billions are fleeing from. Civilization has its problems but in almost every way it is better than the Unabomber’s shack.


 
 
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