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    - Maybe TECH will save us?

    Started by K-Dog Nov 29, 2024, 11:52 AM

    Message path : / Society / Tech is always to the rescue / Fantasy tech porn / Excesses at the End of Industrial Civilization #2


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    K-Dog

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    Nov 29, 2024, 11:52 AM
    I can't watch the video, I tried.  Looking at that thing made one of my brain wiggles do some unconscious math which generated a gut reaction of strong revulsion.  Having to do with battery energy density considerations and energy flight requirements.  The thing would make as much noise as a jet taking off.  A hundred of them would cause a city to go deaf.

    Tech wont save us but it is a essential ingredient in our delusional soup.  Guy Debord studied real world material facts.  'Philosophy' not needed here, this is not a matter of opinion.  Tech delusion is promoted by capitalism.  Being deluded makes good consumers.


    Tech provides, and is part of the spectacle.

    In dystopian novels where industrial tyranny defines life, such as Orwell's 1984 being only but one example the world portrayed is dark and miserable.  The reader can feel the tyranny.  That is the point.  The author makes you aware of the tyranny.  Reality is different.  Feeling tyranny would cause system failure.  In a successful dystopia you do not feel tyranny. You become an instrument of tyranny.  Lost in the bubble of your fantasy world you leave reality behind without a second thought.

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