Friday, February 5, 2021

Thoughts for the Day: Friday 5 February 2021

 

1993 publication. Postman a favorite of mine


Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.


If logic is defined as the capability to press on to conclusions with a total disregard for all reality and all experience, then Hitler’s greatest gift—the gift to which he owed his success and which brought about his downfall—was one of pure logic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein said, language frames our reality so completely that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

Hoarding may feel like the rational thing for the rich, but it is against their true self-interest, which is found not in clotting but in circulation to the whole.