Of course absolute truth does exist but it is that much harder to find when the internet becomes more and more controlled by said capital.
So few people fail to recognize this critical and obvious truth. Mass media - television, film, radio, print - was able to subjugate, mould and manipulate entire generations virtually without exception. The smart phone is who knows how many times more addictive and intoxicating and therefore incredibly more powerful. It stores every preference and detail it can about you and then uses it all ruthlessly against you.
I literally cannot imagine a force powerful enough to shake society back into sense. It will take incredible violence.
It makes you think people like ellul and ted k might be right huh? The critique of these anarchists is of course that even in their wildest dreams with tech destroyed humans would just create it again. So what do we do? And it’s crazy as you say how people think the internet makes everything more available. For outliers? Yes. You can learn anything. For the average person? Fuck no, they are more controlled than ever before. Apple news pops up on their phone. It’s “official.” The human mind worships authority and “official.” They made this phone they must be powerful and correct. We walk around with tracking devices as a necessity to live. This is literally the technique as described by ellul. Once tech served humanity, now we serve tech. God knows where this will go. Ted had a few hypothesizes and it’s looking like the domesticated human route. God if he exists help us all.
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