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- The internet is a poisoned environment. An ecological crisis of and for the mind. A wasteland.
- If the ocean turns blood red or birds drop out of the sky from plague — we would notice. But if everyone in the world started acting slightly, subtly strangely — say, compulsively checking a little glowing object in their pockets — we might fail to notice anything was amiss. The human tragedy is our tendency to naturalize anti-natural modes of life. We industrialize body and soul — and violate their structure and potential.
3. Rhetoric is dangerous. Rhetoric allowed Facebook, Google, and Apple to pose as forces for the good while developing powerful means of controlling and modifying mass behavior. Technology is like any dictator — it’s as good as its propaganda.
4. Millenials should really be called the lab-rat generation.
5. Social media gives new meaning to Arendt’s concept of the ‘banality of evil.’
6. A good reason to be afraid of nanobots and other nextgen technology — we’re already controlled by machines we built.
7. Smartphones destroy literacy. We lose the ability to read a book in proportion to the amount of time we spend on our phones.
