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Amusing Ourselves to Death - Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

2025-09-22

Tags: History · Media · Technology

At its core the book lays out how the shift from a typographic centered communication society to a image centered communication society has redefined the very epistemology of civilization. Before radio, photography, the telegraph, and television (not to mention the internet), the only way people communicated, excluding orally, was via the written word. A book, as the piece de resistance of the typographic age, meant a number of things in and of itself that the modern telecommunications lack. A book, or more particularly the ideas a book holds, are wrestled into their final form over months or years as the author distills their thoughts, rearranges their arguments, and hones their presentation into a final lucid concept as they imagine how the future reader might react. Telecommunications holds no such claim and instead distills its ideas into an acceptable for, free of all context, to be enjoyed as entertainment for the lowest common denominator of public fool, culminating with the eventuality that entertainment not on usurps information, but that is *becomes* information itself.

Why We Should Gatekeep Linux

2025-03-19

Tags: Linux · Technology

Linux, like so many other things, is being invaded by the masses. They are demanding change without understanding the long-term effects of those changes. Left unchecked Linux will become enshitified in the same way almost everything else has.

Industrial Society and its Future

2023-11-23

Tags: History · Politics · Technology

When I read this about 20 years ago a lot of thing resonated with me, but his targeting of the leftist ideology as the root of so many of the problems we are facing, then and now, only rang true in my recent reading after an extra few decades of life under my belt. Again, I find it so apropos that he focuses like a laser on people who 'interpret as derogatory almost anything that is said about him' which seems to be the a reasonable definition for the modern trigger/safe space culture. Similarily he states 'This tendency is pronounced among minority-rights activists, whether or not they belong to the minority groups whose rights they defend.' which we see again when 'white' people march for BLM or Hamas/Israel while simultaniously championing their self-loathing by saying 'white' people are the problem. There is so much to unpack in a relatively short 100-odd pages that I can't recommend this book any higher; reguardless of your political leaning I guarantee if you put aside your predjudice and bias, you will learn something either about your 'enemies' or the world you may already despise. Agree or disagree, but violence got his message out there and Uncle Ted, RIP in Peace, has become something of folk hero.

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