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On Taste, or I’m Too Old for Discoveries
It’s hard to overestimate the scale of the change that we as a society of over-consuming and technologically-enslaved junkies had came through in the last twenty or so years. We are still way over-consuming and even more technologically-enslaved than ever, but the way itself we consume and depend on technology had changed drastically.
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The Butlerian Jihad: Gatekeepers of Digital Consumption
Machines themselves aren’t the problem—hierarchies are. When there are hierarchies, there are also small privileged groups of people that tend to screw up horribly with disastrous consequences for everybody else. Therefore, our pitchforks and sledgehammers should be used to dismantle hierarchies and not destroy machines.