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“Man is caught like a fly in a bottle. His attempts at culture, freedom, and creative endeavor have become mere entries in technique's filing cabinet.” Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society In the mid-1950s the French philosopher Jacques Ellul wrote a book titled The Technological Society. In sit he proposed that technology, or more broadly what […] The post Why Technology is Enslaving and Dehumanizing Us first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
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On this episode, I am joined by a leading Jacques Ellul scholar, Dr. Michael Morreli, as we unpack his reflections on technology, idolatry, modernity, and Christian Anarchism. If you enjoy the conversation, check out his book Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio. Michael Morelli is Assistant Professor of… Read more about Michael Morelli: Jacques Ellul & the Technological Society
On this episode, I am joined by a leading Jacques Ellul scholar, Dr. Michael Morreli, as we unpack his reflections on technology, idolatry, modernity, and Christian Anarchism. If you enjoy the conversation, check out his book Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio. Michael Morelli is Assistant Professor of Theology & Ethics and Program Manager, Life-Long Learning at Northwest Seminary & College (a founding member of ACTS Seminaries, and affiliate of Trinity Western University). He holds a PhD in Theological Ethics from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, is the author of Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio: A Nascent Theological Tradition (2021), and editor of Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word: A New Essay by Jacques Ellul and Five Critical Engagements (2023). He publishes and presents on a variety of topics within the fields of theology, morality, culture, politics, and technology. He has also worked in local church ministry and continues to serve the church in a lay capacity. Follow Michael's work on Twitter: @mchlmorelli 00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Dr. Morelli 04:31 Michael Morelli's Academic Journey 14:03 Jacques Ellul's Background and Influences 19:25 Understanding Technique and Its Implications 32:28 The Idol of Technology and Its Consequences 37:09 Power Dynamics and Non-Power in Modernity 46:54 The Dark Side of Innovation 47:12 War and Technology: A Chilling Connection 48:04 Propaganda and Political Power 51:29 The Seduction of Technology 54:39 The Role of Idols in Modern Society 57:42 The Ethics of War and Political Decisions 01:00:38 The Future of Technology and Society 01:14:16 Christian Anarchism and Local Governance 01:22:47 Hope and Despair in Modern Times 01:36:26 Upcoming Projects and Final Thoughts WATCH THE CONVERSATION HERE Join my Substack - Process This! Join our upcoming class - THE GOD OF THE BIBLE: An Absolutely Clear and Final Guide to Ultimate Mystery ;) Come to THEOLOGY BEER CAMP. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kryptos joins the podcast for a long form conversation about the technological society referred to in Jacques Ellul's writings. He explains what technology actually is and how it brings both positives and negatives. Sometimes the social cost is very high. This sparks a discussion between Jon and Kryptos on what the technological society means for the church as an institution. Kryptos offers some helpful ways to think of technology and prevent its negative effects. To Support the Podcast: https://www.worldviewconversation.com/support/Become a Patronhttps://www.patreon.com/worldviewconversationFollow Jon on X: https://twitter.com/jonharris1989Follow Jon on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldviewconversation/Our Sponsors:* Check out Noble Gold and use my code HARRIS for a great deal: npr.orgSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/conversations-that-matter8971/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Talking Without Callers BothThe Age of Transitions and Uncle 3-1-2024 AOT #415It does matter who wins the upcoming American presidential election. Donald Trump is not simply running by himself. He has the backing of a massive evangelical political apparatus. Topics include: No Phone Lines, Propaganda Has Changed, Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, Donald Trump, presidential election, American Autocracy Threat Tracker, dictatorship, Christian Nationalism, alternative media bias, prejudice, powers behind Trump campaign, Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, cults, Center for Renewing America, theocracy, spiritual warfare, Truth Movement corruption, and co-optation, Tea Party, Ron Paul, the cult of personality, Christian take on conspiracy material, Alex Jones, mainstream conservative politics, MAGA, the battle within Republican Party, America First, geopolitics, great powers competition, Cold War, world war, Israel, Russia, international use of culture wars, China invasion of Taiwan, US domestic turmoil, new US Civil War, law and order, the crackdown on political protestsUTP #325Uncle and Sidekick make it through a show by talking. Topics include: new show with a flag, no calls, chat room, guests, internet famous neighbors, Party People, 1755, colonial America, Ohtani, LA Dodgers, NFL Combine, VHS tapes, thrift stores in Coachella Valley, local store owners, Beef People, Vegas oddsFRANZ MAIN HUB:https://theageoftransitions.com/PATREONhttps://www.patreon.com/aaronfranzUNCLEhttps://unclethepodcast.com/ORhttps://theageoftransitions.com/category/uncle-the-podcast/''FRANZ and UNCLE Merchhttps://theageoftransitions.com/category/support-the-podcasts/KEEP OCHELLI GOING. You are the EFFECT if you support OCHELLIhttps://ochelli.com/donate/New Membership Options To Support Ochelli.com Radio and get More RARE content Than Ever Before!!BASIC MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP$10. USD per MonthSupport Ochelli & in 2024Get a Monthly Email that deliversThe 1st Decade of The Ochelli EffectOver 5,000 Podcasts by 2025BASIC + SUPPORTER WALL$150. USD one time gets the sameAll the Monthly Benefits for 1 Yeara spot on The Ochelli.com Supporters WallSIGN-UP @https://ochelli.com/membership-account/membership-levels/Ochelli Link Treehttps://linktr.ee/chuckochelli
It actually does matter who wins the upcoming American presidential election. Donald Trump is not simply running by himself. He has the backing of a massive evangelical political apparatus. Topics include: no phone lines, propaganda has changed, Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, Donald Trump, presidential election, American Autocracy Threat Tracker, dictatorship, Christian Nationalism, alternative media bias, prejudice, powers behind Trump campaign, Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, cults, Center for Renewing America, theocracy, spiritual warfare, Truth Movement corruption and co-optation, Tea Party, Ron Paul, cult of personality, Christian take on conspiracy material, Alex Jones, mainstream conservative politics, MAGA, battle within Republican Party, America First, geopolitics, great powers competition, Cold War, world war, Israel, Russia, international use of culture wars, China invasion of Taiwan, US domestic turmoil, new US Civil War, law and order, crack down on political protests
John and Maria discuss two issues that dominated the news last week, the biased replies from Google Gemini and a new study that finds married couples are the happiest. Recommendations Abigail Shrier on Freedom in an Age of Fear Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier The Case for Life by Scott Klusendorf Segment 1: Has AI Gone Woke? Breakpoint Forum: The Perils and Promise of Artificial Intelligence Google hopeful of fix for Gemini's historical-image diversity issue within weeks Google Gemini Controversy Explained: AI Model Criticized by Musk and Others Over Alleged Bias The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul The Way of the (Modern) World by Craig Gay The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind by Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean Segment 2: Polls Show Married People Are Happiest Why you should get married Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization by Brad Wilcox The hidden social justice issue Wedded Bliss is True, not Trendy Brad Wilcox on X __________ Subscribe to get the latest What Would You Say? videos at whatwouldyousay.org/subscribe.
As the world continues to progress technologically, how do we begin to approach this theologically. Jason Thacker, a professor of ethics and author joins Steve Carter on the craft and character podcast to help us better understand what is at stake and what we can do about it. Technology is not a net neutral conversation; but rather one we must approach with greater wisdom and discernment. With the advent of AI and other technological advancements, we as preachers have an opportunity to help our people understand what formation, ethics, and life in the kingdom truly looks like Jason Thacker serves as an assistant professor of philosophy and ethics at Boyce College in Louisville, Kentucky. He also is a senior fellow in Christian ethics and director of the research institute at The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is the author of several books including Following Jesus in a Digital Age and The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. He also serves as the editor of The Digital Public Square: Christian Ethics in a Technological Society and co-editor of the Essentials in Christian Ethics series with B&H Academic. He is the project leader and lead drafter of Artificial Intelligence: An Evangelical Statement of Principles. EPISODE LINKS Website - jasonthacker.com Books - Following Jesus in a Digital Age, The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity @jasonthacker @steveryancarter @craft_character Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Editor: Re: “Birthday messages and ‘personal' greetings vs. AI,” Aug. 16 As Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence advance at a breakneck pace, we as a society appear stuck in a whirlwind of technological convenience. With these specialized Information Technology advances sometimes come the disadvantages and dangers that new technologies have brought upon mankind throughout history. Unfortunately, technological advantages usually reach the goals of the rich and powerful and typically disadvantage the plans of the poor. The proverbial genie is now out of the bottle, and at this point, all we can do is try our best to manage our own...Article Link
I sit down with Ted Lewis to discuss the work of Jacques Ellul and his views, on technology, Christianity, civilization, and transpersonal agency. Ted Lewis is Executive Director of the International Jacques Ellul Society. Full bio: https://restorativechurch.org/about-ted-lewis/ International Jacques Ellul Society: https://ellul.org/ The Ellul Forum: https://ellulforum.weebly.com/ Original YouTube version: https://youtu.be/JIsypT45UVM List of books shown on screen: - The Technological Society, by Jacques Ellul - The Secular City, by Harvey Cox - The Empire of Non-sense, by Jacques Ellul - The Humiliation of the Word, by Jacques Ellul - The Ellul Forum - I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, by René Girard - The Space Trilogy, by CS Lewis - The Technological Bluff, by Jacques Ellul - The Technological System, by Jacques Ellul - The Abolition of Man, by CS Lewis - Presence in the Modern World, by Jacques Ellul — Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Preview 00:01:15 - Intro music 00:01:40 - Introduction 00:02:40 - Jacques Ellul's warning 00:05:40 - Ellul's influences 00:06:56 - Biblical images of the city 00:09:03 - Ellul's suspicion of imagery 00:10:45 - Reconciling the word and image 00:12:41 - Ellul: Principalities and powers 00:19:10 - Symbol and the lie 00:24:55 - The positive Image in Scripture 00:31:34 - Ellul now: The Technological Bluff 00:37:26 - The Tower of Babel 00:41:10 - That Hideous Strength phrase 00:43:12 - The divine council 00:50:50 - Ted's work and advice in the modern world 00:56:17 - Closing words —
Jason Thacker joins the show to discuss the growth of AI technologies. The widespread accessibility of generative AI, such as ChatGPT, raises theological and ethical questions that thoughtful Christians must address. We cover these topics and explore the influence of the advanced digital age.Jason Thacker serves as an assistant professor of philosophy and ethics at Boyce College in Louisville, KY. He also is a research fellow in Christian ethics and director of the research institute at The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is the author of several books including Following Jesus in the Digital Age and The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. He also serves as the editor of The Digital Public Square: Christian Ethics in a Technological Society and co-editor of the Essentials in Christian Ethics series with B&H Academic. He is the project leader and lead drafter of Artificial Intelligence: An Evangelical Statement of Principles, and his work has been featured at Slate, Politico, The Week, USA Today, Christianity Today, World Magazine, The Gospel Coalition, and Desiring God.Check out the full show notes for this episode: https://www.aaronshamp.com/podcast/jason-thackerSUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://www.aaronshamp.com/support ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Track: Perseverance — Land of Fire [Audio Library Release]Music provided by Audio Library Plus––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Michael Morelli is assistant professor of theology, culture, and ethics at Northwest Baptist Seminary in British Columbia, Canada. Michael is also the editor of the recent Pickwick book, Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word. This volume includes the first English translation of an essay by Jacques Ellul, along with five short engagements with Ellul's essay from current leading Ellul scholars. PODCAST LINKS: Jacques Ellul, Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666742534/desert-wilderness-wasteland-and-word/ Wipf and Stock's Ellul volumes: https://wipfandstock.com/search-results/?contributor=jacques-ellul&page_number=1 Michael's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mchlmorelli?lang=en CONNECT: Website: https://wipfandstock.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/wipfandstock Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wipfandstock Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wipfandstock/ SOURCES MENTIONED: Barth, Karl. The Epistle to the Romans. Eliot, T. S. “The Waste Land.” Ellul, Jacques. A Critique of the New Commonplaces. ———. Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word: A New Essay by Jacques Ellul and Five Critical Engagements. ———. The Empire of Non-Sense: Art in the Technological Society. ———. Hope in Time of Abandonment. ———. Presence in the Modern World. ———. The Technological Bluff. ———. The Theological Foundation of Law. Ziegler, Philip G. Militant Grace: The Apocalyptic Turn and the Future of Christian Theology. OUTLINE: (01:42) – Chai tea, raw milk, oat milk(s), Keurig coffee (09:27) – Roundtable: Ellul, Virilio, Marx, Barth, Kierkegaard (13:36) – Ellul: Fiery? Austere? Curmudgeonly? (15:57) – The French Theodor Adorno (18:22) – French Protestant sociologist, theologian, and activist (26:30) – A one-man Frankfurt School (and a Barthian-Kierkegaardian) (32:16) – Technique as the new form of capital (36:40) – Confronting the trauma of fascism (41:39) – Freedom and the fear thereof (45:22) – Messianic inbreaking (48:56) – Anarchy and activism (53:05) – Discovering Ellul (and Virilio) (59:00) – Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word (01:02:32) – The One who we recognize without knowing (01:07:05) – The “desert” in Ellul (01:11:07) – Technology and eco-theology (01:14:27) – Where to find Michael (01:16:07) – Future project: Ellul and cinema
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
Modern views on how future technology is likely to change our lives range from bloviatingly aspirational visions of utopia to musings on whether the latest advancement in AI will destroy humankind in our lifetime or merely enslave us all in Matrix-style battery capillaries. Yet debates on whether technology is a neutral tool for our benefit or a near-unstoppable force leading us to a particular destiny are nothing new. In 1964, French philosopher and sociologist Jacques Ellul wrote The Technological Society, in which he argued technology had a totalizing effect that could potentially dehumanize our world in its never-ending effort to make all things efficient and “useful”. While he's somewhat critical of Ellul's determinism, this episode's guest—Jason Thacker—gleans much wisdom from Ellul's warnings. Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis and Jason Thacker discuss competing views of technology and how they might help us for a foundation for dealing with the technological challenges we face in our digital public square. About Jason Thacker From https://jasonthacker.com/ Jason Thacker serves as an assistant professor of philosophy and ethics at Boyce College in Louisville, KY. He also is a research fellow in Christian ethics and director of the research institute at The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is the author of several books including Following Jesus in the Digital Age and The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. He also serves as the editor of The Digital Public Square: Christian Ethics in a Technological Society and co-editor of the Essentials in Christian Ethics series with B&H Academic. He is the project leader and lead drafter of Artificial Intelligence: An Evangelical Statement of Principles, and his work has been featured at Slate, Politico, The Week, USA Today, Christianity Today, World Magazine, The Gospel Coalition, and Desiring God. He is a graduate of The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies. He also holds a Master of Divinity from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he is currently a PhD candidate in ethics, public theology, and philosophy. He serves as an associate fellow with the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge, an advisor for AI and Faith, fellow in science and technology at the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Seminary, and a research fellow with the ERLC Research Institute. He is married to Dorie and they have two sons. You can follow Jason on Twitter @jasonthacker About The Digital Public Square Brooke was one of the contributing writers to the recently published book The Digital Public Square. In The Digital Public Square, editor Jason Thacker has chosen top Christian voices to help the church navigate the issues of censorship, conspiracy theories, sexual ethics, hate speech, religious freedom, and tribalism. Many of the contributing writers (David French, Bonnie Kristian, Bryan Baise, and Brooke Medina) have been prior guests on the Saving Elephants show.
In this episode Caleb discusses the topic to how to navigate misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories with Jason Thacker (PhD candidate, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) assistant professor of philosophy and ethics at Boyce College and research fellow in Christian ethics and director of the research institute at The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. In addition to defining each of these terms, Caleb and Jason address such questions as: How do Christian's engage in healthy ways with news media? How has the digital age changed how we perceive reality and changed our relationships? What are the cultural-historical-biblical roots of disinformation and misinformation? And more. Resources: The Digital Public Square: Christian Ethics in a Technological Society edited by Jason Thacker https://a.co/d/5hURBhZ Following Jesus in a Digital Age by Jason Thacker https://a.co/d/24M08zt God, Technology, and the Christian Life by Tony Reinke https://a.co/d/8Oc2oO4 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You by Tony Reinke https://a.co/d/5mbEyzb Andy Crouch Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Andy-Crouch/author/B001HCWOTK?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
In this brave new digital world, opportunities for hate speech seem ubiquitous and increasingly dangerous. How should a conservative balance their values of limited-government and protection of the vulnerable in social media? How do we answer the charges of “silence is violence”, or that speech and equal violence from a legal, cultural, and moral framework? Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis is joined by frequent guest Brooke Medina to grapple with the problem of hate speech. Josh shares his experiences of being harassed while (briefly) identifying as a woman on Facebook and Brooke draws from her contributing chapter in the recently published book The Digital Public Square: Christian Ethics in a Technological Society. About Brooke Medina Brooke Medina serves as Vice President of Communications for the John Locke Foundation, an independent, nonprofit think tank in North Carolina. There Brooke manages a team of talented communications, design, and media professionals. Brooke oversees the implementation of the organization's strategic communications efforts and regularly engages with the press and public through written commentary, television and radio interviews, as well as public speaking engagements. In addition to these roles, Brooke is responsible for creating and implementing the foundation's marketing strategy. Brooke is a graduate of Regent University, holding a B.A. in Government and a minor in English. While in college, she attended both the Koch Leaders Program and Koch Communications Fellowship, programs that focus on the philosophical underpinnings of market-based management and classical liberalism. She is currently a member of the American Enterprise Institute's Leadership Network. Brooke's writing has been published in outlets such as The Hill, Entrepreneur, Washington Examiner, WORLD, Daily Signal, FEE, and other publications. She is a frequent podcast guest on a variety of shows, a C. S. Lewis aficionado, and, along with Josh, part of the quartet that make up the hosts of the Are We Right? podcast. You can follow Brooke on Twitter @Brooke_Medina_ About The Digital Public Square Brooke was one of the contributing writers to the recently published book The Digital Public Square. In The Digital Public Square, editor Jason Thacker has chosen top Christian voices to help the church navigate the issues of censorship, conspiracy theories, sexual ethics, hate speech, religious freedom, and tribalism. Many of the contributing writers (David French, Bonnie Kristian, Bryan Baise, and Brooke Medina) have been prior guests on the Saving Elephants show.
Genesis 6:11-18 Genesis 11:1-9 Rev. Dr. Tony Sundermeier Almost Divine Consciousness: A Theology of Technology, The Technological Society
Dave Jones is a driver behind the Podcasting 2.0 movement & a repeat guest on the Mere Mortals (1st appearance in Conversation #54).In Conversation #88, Dave and I discuss: why fragmented social media might be losing steam, some of his favourite philosophy books, combining the value for value model with music, what a lot of people get wrong about V4V and how I saved him from being nicknamed the Podbro.Hope you're having a fantastic day wherever you are in the world, Kyrin out!Timeline:(0:00) - Intro to Dave(0:38) - Bitcoin bible study(5:01) - Link between coding & creativity(10:14) - What is Freedom Controller?(15:16) - Social network in a box(17:33) - Peak social media & how I use it(24:13) - Technology dulls the memory of a moment(27:42) - The modern technological pace is relentless(30:29) - Introverts lose energy from social interactions(35:20) - Dave's obscure reading list(38:21) - The Technological Society(42:21) - The Question Concerning Technology(44:29) - Why is some philosophy so incomprehensible?(49:47) - The scientific method & tyranny of averages(56:18) - Rockets & music(1:00:15) - The Nintendo jump(1:02:50) - Why Podcasting 2.0 is pumped for music(1:09:56) - Not everything needs to scale(1:15:56) - Can V4V be replicated?(1:19:34) - Key components to the V4V model(1:27:06) - Value For Value Podcast Season 3(1:31:54) - Value tag in the feed vs with a shim(1:40:23) - Gaming the charts(1:44:15) - Coding is not for everyone(1:52:42) - Dave & I Will Meet In Europe!(1:55:42) - The Origin Story Of The Podsage(1:59:36) - Moments that can't be captured(2:02:58) - Last goodbyes & gratitudeConnect With Dave:Website: https://podcastindex.org/Mastodon: https://podcastindex.social/@daveConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meremortalspodcast
A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/ Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot Propaganda Season Outline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xa4MhYMAg2Ohc5Nvya4g9MHxXWlxo6haT2Nj8Hlws8M/edit?usp=sharing Episode Outline/Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/131_02boxbdq67ynpxH4qTo08lhpHWJKEdPsXRC0Z2xk/edit?usp=sharing Manipulating the Masses: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53232641-manipulating-the-masses?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=H9uIM5Aqi4&rank=1 C.D. Jackson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18968778-c-d-jackson?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=4v8VJbnSUA&rank=4 The Brass Check: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54850.The_Brass_Check?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=31QD9Z05ST&rank=1 What to the Slave is the 4th of July: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1852-frederick-douglass-what-slave-fourth-july/ Dawn of Everything: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-everything?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=f8V35Ghqol&rank=1 War is a Racket: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198259.War_is_a_Racket?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=hAmz9Yhokm&rank=1 Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1120159.Taking_the_Risk_Out_of_Democracy?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=dXT2Mj1LU2&rank=1 The Fine Print song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvANy49Kqhw The Technological Society: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274827.The_Technological_Society?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=rgzFLjmZo6&rank=2 Propaganda: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274826.Propaganda?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=MJ0Jt4z7sR&rank=1 Supreme Injustice chapter on Citizens United: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110285.Supreme_Injustice?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=HesBhL4UNC&rank=1 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74176.The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=FMaV9bgi7L&rank=2 Corruption is legal in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig&t=248s The Persuaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRv8syM-zy8 HUME QUOTE: Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular. The soldan of Egypt, or the emperor of Rome, might drive his harmless subjects, like brute beasts, against their sentiments and inclination: But he must, at least, have led his mamalukes, or prætorian bands, like men, by their opinion.DOUGLAS QUOTE: But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. The arm of commerce has borne away the gates of the strong city. Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. It makes its pathway over and under the sea, as well as on the earth. Wind, steam, and lightning are its chartered agents. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. From Boston to London is now a holiday excursion. Space is comparatively annihilated. -- Thoughts expressed on one side of the Atlantic are distinctly heard on the other.The far off and almost fabulous Pacific rolls in grandeur at our feet. The Celestial Empire, the mystery of ages, is being solved. The fiat of the Almighty, "Let there be Light," has not yet spent its force. No abuse, no outrage whether in taste, sport or avarice, can now hide itself from the all-pervading light.SELECTED WIMBERLY QUOTES: - Most individuals are quick to note that they are no dupes and harbor many suspicious and critical thoughts about propaganda. But, in trying to evaluate the impact of propaganda, it has to be remembered that propagandists have almost no interest in the individual. Propagandists focused on mass subjectivities—human beings in their collective social relationships and actions. It is perfectly possible that an individual might feel as an individual that she is critical and little impacted by propaganda: after all, does not she know that it is all smoke and mirrors? However, what we are judging is not what the individual thinks but what the public does. An individual may think whatever she wants, but if in her collective actions (e.g., as an 18- to 34-year-old television watcher, an automobile consumer, or a corporate or university worker) she acts in the collective fashion the propagandists create (e.g., watches the television, buys a nice midsized SUV, or completes the university administration–mandated course assessment work), then what do the rebellious thoughts of the individual matter to the propagandist who is measuring TV viewership, automobile sales, or how well a university serves its core customer base? Put otherwise, the propagandist seeks to forge mass subjectivities, which it calls the publics, to carry out the conduct their clients want, not to focus on the beliefs of individuals: “Very frequently propaganda is described as a manipulation for the purpose of changing ideas or opinions… . This is completely wrong… . The aim of modern propagandist is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.”If the terms of mass subjectivities, large groupings of psychologically bonded individuals, give no room for those individual rebellions to crystallize into collective social action but instead reliably lead to the conduct corporations want, then one can perfectly well feel as an individual untouched, critical, or even radicalized but nonetheless still remain massively governed. In fact, isn't it all the better that individuals believe themselves ungoverned, critical, and unaffected if that results in complacency and a lack of motivation for action? The point is that the thoughts of the individual and the conduct of the publics have to be distinguished: though one might feel critical as an individual, the question is how social and public relationships of subjects are constituted and conduct themselves. If a radical still buys the dress, movie ticket, or 12-piece dinner set, what does it matter that it is a radical who buys it when there is no room for that radicalism to manifest itself in the public? Propagandists would tell us that the appropriateness of the language of subjectification versus modification has to be judged at the level of the conduct of the public, not at the level of the thoughts of the individual.- Certainly, authors like Stanley (epistemological interpretation) and Marcuse (ideological interpretation) are both correct insofar as propaganda does lie and repress. However, I will argue that these functions are subsidiaries of a much more threatening function of propaganda: its ability to shape human beings' “body and soul and spirit” in the quest to produce the relationships that would sustain corporate growth.1The stakes in misinterpreting propaganda are high. If you take propaganda to present a problem of belief, then the solution is to replace false belief with true. If you take propaganda to be ideological, covering over true human desire with false and destructive desires, then the solution is to recover true desire and banish the chimera of the false. Both of these ways of interpreting propaganda place true belief or true desire as the untouched savoir of contemporary life; the true remains present and unaltered whatever the deceptions propagandists foment and it is the critic's job to recover them. But if the aim of propaganda is to produce new subjects who will cooperatively and spontaneously adopt the wanted relationships with corporations, then there is no going back: the subject is not deceived but transformed, and the task of combatting propaganda will not be best conceived as a project of enlightenment but of subjectivation. The future will have to be created by producing new subjects and not through recovering what has been supposedly hidden but is better described as lost. Without grasping the impact of propaganda, attempts to counter it are unlikely to be effective.- For instance, when Bernays wanted to get women to smoke Lucky Strikes, he had to change not only the image of cigarettes but also the self-image of the women who would smoke them. Bernays and psychoanalyst A. A. Brill determined that women would smoke if cigarettes if women viewed themselves as crusaders for liberation and the cigarette was positioned as a symbol of equality, freedom, and pleasure. To get women to smoke, Bernays guided women into thinking of smoking as an act of defiance and empowerment that would make them revolutionaries. Every woman could conceive of herself as contributing to women's liberation, just by smoking a Lucky Strike. Bernays kicked off this campaign on Easter Sunday in 1929, when he recruited women to break the law against public smoking by women in New York by smoking Lucky Strikes in the Easter Day Parade. He used this symbolic gesture to link smoking to the liberation of choice, pleasure, and voice and as an act of resistance against patriarchy. Feminist Ruth Hale encouraged women to join in, saying, “Women! Light another torch of freedom! Fight another sex taboo!”72 The aim was to get women to regard themselves and cigarettes differently such that women would form the relationship to cigarettes that Lucky Strike wanted (e.g. as avid and fierce consumers)...Bernays wanted to redirect drives—the true drives—to point at new ends; he did not falsify desires but rechanneled them from their source. He created objects of desire as true as any by working with their unconscious sources. Thanks to our monthly supporters Michael de Nijs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/ Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot Propaganda Season Outline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xa4MhYMAg2Ohc5Nvya4g9MHxXWlxo6haT2Nj8Hlws8M/edit?usp=sharing Episode Outline/Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pqVH3DUXWbbk8f8HdjpH8EClQNcK8DIALLeorTa9Zgk/edit?usp=sharing Mein Kampf: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54270.Mein_Kampf?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ovwYMtecRX&rank=1 The Technological Society: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274827.The_Technological_Society?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=rgzFLjmZo6&rank=2 Propaganda: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274826.Propaganda?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=MJ0Jt4z7sR&rank=1 Supreme Injustice chapter on Citizens United: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110285.Supreme_Injustice?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=HesBhL4UNC&rank=1 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74176.The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=FMaV9bgi7L&rank=2 Corruption is legal in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig&t=248s The Persuaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRv8syM-zy8 Thanks to our monthly supporters Michael de Nijs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
*This episode is releasing on April 9, 2023, at dawn, Berlin time. This is in commemoration of the execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who stood up to the lies and deception of Hitler, and who paid for it with his life. He died at dawn exactly 77 years ago from this moment. I dig into Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to explore the mind of an early master propagandist, and how we might avoid being bewitched by another iteration of him in the future. 0:00 - Bonhoeffer Introduction15:00 - Our aversion to reading Hitler21:45 - How this episode connects with the season23:30 - Hitler's/Germany's struggle: injustice and imperialism33:00 - Racial ideology38:00 - Hitler's moral lens42:45 - Hitler's grounding of authority49:00 - Hitler the progressive51:15 - Why focus on the masses?53:30 - How to propagandize the masses59:30 - The elite are disconnected from the masses1:06:00 - How the elite propagandize the masses like Hitler1:12:30 - Ellul and Hitler's overlap1:13:45 - Importance of truth at the core of propaganda1:16:00 - Importance of polarizing groups and issues1:20:10 - Mithridatism and saturation1:20:50 - Vary forms of propaganda1:21:25 - Propaganda aims at effectiveness1:22:00 - Concluding thoughts*Correction to Holmes's quote. It is "three generations of imbeciles is enough," not one generation. A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/ Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot Propaganda Season Outline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xa4MhYMAg2Ohc5Nvya4g9MHxXWlxo6haT2Nj8Hlws8M/edit?usp=sharing Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VSvC0SJYwku2U0awRaNAu?si=3ad0b2fbed2e4864 Episode Outline/Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fu9uSiLBr_UZIu69_szJmJVN_TyMQBk0Lq-rtneqtBg/edit?usp=sharing Mein Kampf: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54270.Mein_Kampf?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ovwYMtecRX&rank=1 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=e1URNvJNzt&rank=1 Amusing Ourselves to Death: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034.Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=QflaH4J2oW&rank=1 The Technological Society: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274827.The_Technological_Society?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=rgzFLjmZo6&rank=2 Propaganda: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274826.Propaganda?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=MJ0Jt4z7sR&rank=1 Taking the Risk out of Democracy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1120159.Taking_the_Risk_Out_of_Democracy?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=ZxSDv6Pmbg&rank=1# Radio Free Dixie: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/448669.Radio_Free_Dixie?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=uGxfhd7aPn&rank=1 Negroes with Guns: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/591966.Negroes_with_Guns?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=wQCrsAZi9K&rank=1 War is a Racket: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198259.War_is_a_Racket?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=RlES4OU70M&rank=1 Ordinary Men: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/647492.Ordinary_Men?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=25su7U5vdK&rank=1 They Thought They Were Free: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/978689.They_Thought_They_Were_Free?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=RWDbW6fePA&rank=1 The Art of War: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ROLaW6yH3C&rank=1 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40630.How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=AQAMpj0Euk&rank=1 The Internationalists: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753784-the-internationalists?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=T6SzEBTOOH&rank=1 My episode on the Internationalists: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/draft-117-independence-day-grotius-and-the-internationalists The Dawn of Everything: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-everything?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=kyjUybYn98&rank=1 Sikes Picot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaPWlKv7n0Y Congolese father stares at child's severed limbs: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/father-hand-belgian-congo-1904/ Apotheosis of Washington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington Marsh's Bonhoeffer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18248389-strange-glory Bonhoeffer the Assassin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17321394-bonhoeffer-the-assassin?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=azvmmkJ1uU&rank=1 Metaxas's Bonhoeffer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7501962-bonhoeffer Metaxas: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/eric-metaxas-trump-bloodshed-american-apocalypse-live-not-by-lies/ Bonhoeffer: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/02/22/the-nazi-mind/ Hijacking Bonhoeffer: https://www.christiancentury.org/reviews/2010-09/hijacking-bonhoeffer Moltke not wanting to assassinate Hitler: https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2020-01-26/ty-article/.premium/the-evangelical-who-was-part-of-the-german-resistance-against-hitler/0000017f-e0d6-d75c-a7ff-fcdfd6010000 Bonhoeffer's "Behold the Man!": https://swordofthespirit.net/wp-content/bulwark/february2016p4.htm My Previous Bonhoeffer Episode Part 1: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a9fa9d76 My Previous Episode Part 2: https://dashboard.transistor.fm/shows/the-fourth-way/episodes/47-se5-bonhoeffer-pacifist-or-assassin/edit Thanks to our monthly supporters Michael de Nijs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
I had the opportunity to interview Jonathan and Annlyn Kulp about the insights they gleaned from their relationship as an interracial couple. A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/ Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot Propaganda Season Outline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xa4MhYMAg2Ohc5Nvya4g9MHxXWlxo6haT2Nj8Hlws8M/edit?usp=sharing Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VSvC0SJYwku2U0awRaNAu?si=3ad0b2fbed2e4864 Episode Outline/Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c3XODEiLOxzy98yIH2d40lkq5qiwYgkE6tyMp7mk7ag/edit?usp=sharing Propaganda by Ellul: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274826.Propaganda?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=eMKlf1kIPx&rank=1 Technological Society by Ellul: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274827.The_Technological_Society?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=dKMNh6AqAU&rank=1 Black Panther 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z3QKkl1WyM Followers of Jesus Mennonite Brooklyn: https://www.fjmcny.org/ Anabaptist Perspectives w/the Kulps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8r5qk_Sd70 Oprah in Forsyth County: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErjPmFulQ0&t=5s Trevor Noah on Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C38p7N5h9M Trevor Noah on Ukraine 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgHQknJnuRk Reading While Black: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48994895-reading-while-black?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=9QB6Tc3fQZ&rank=1 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Along with reviews of the new "Shazam" movie and "The Magician's Elephant," Plugged In's Paul Asay looks at non-Christian actor Rainn Wilson's (The Office) criticism of the anti-Christian bias in Hollywood. Ethic and Religious Liberty Commission's Jason Thacker, editor of "The Digital Public Square: Christian Ethics in a Technological Society," addresses how we as Christians can think wisely about our social media use. Faith Radio podcasts are made possible by your support. Give now: Click here
This is a special episode of the podcast as we kick off a new mini-series themed after a new volume that I had the privilege of editing entitled The Digital Public Square: Christian Ethics in a Technological Society. This book is published by B&H Academic and is available Wednesday, February 1st wherever books are sold.This volume along with my other recently released books including Following Jesus in a Digital Age, the companion Bible study, and A Student's Guide to Social Media are part of a larger research project that I have been leading at the ERLC over the last couple of years. The Digital Public Square research project is designed to help Christians think deeply about the pressing questions of faith and the public square as well as take part in a larger conversation about these pressing challenges of technology and social media whether in the halls of Congress, your state capital, on campuses of the largest and most influential technology companies, in academic gatherings, and most importantly your own home. I am joined by 11 other contributors who address issues such as political philosophy, technology policy, free speech and content moderation, religious freedom, hate speech and hate crimes, gender/sexuality, pornography, conspiracy theories and misinformation, and digital authoritarianism as well as Christian discipleship and mission in the 21st century.Over the next couple of months, I am going to be joined by each contributor to talk about their interest in these areas, their chapters, and what if anything has changed since they wrote their chapters given how quickly the field of technology changes.Download a sample of The Digital Public Square--The Digital Public Square is a production of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and is produced and hosted by Jason Thacker. Production assistance is provided by Kadin Christian. Technical production provided by Owens Productions. It is edited and mixed by Mark Owens.
Show Notes:A New Chapter in Millennial Church Attendance: “Patterns of attendance among younger generations can be especially important—and perplexing—for pastors to understand, in their own church and at large. Barna Group has studied the intersection of faith and culture for nearly four decades, with an emphasis on generational trends. This article explores recent data to help church leaders ground themselves in the present reality of church attendance across generations—especially Millennials—in 2022.”The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated Americaby Richard Rothstein: “Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife—is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels.”The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul: “Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends.”Nancy French's entertainment suggestion tweet thread: “In the French house, David and I love to watch series. Frequently, people ask what good shows we've watched, so I thought I'd start a list (and I'll keep adding to it) of some of the binge-worthy TV we've enjoyed.”Fasting: The Ancient Practices by Scot McKnight: “Christianity has traditionally been at odds with the human body. At times in the history of the church, Christians have viewed the body and physical desires as the enemy. Now, Scot McKnight, best-selling author of The Jesus Creed , reconnects the spiritual and the physical in the ancient discipline of fasting.”
A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/ Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot Propaganda Season Outline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xa4MhYMAg2Ohc5Nvya4g9MHxXWlxo6haT2Nj8Hlws8M/edit?usp=sharing Episode Outline/Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iDhe757_11Ou_zTi877pHD5IG--nzMpEtQseWzIKM1c/edit?usp=sharing Ellul's Propaganda: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274826.Propaganda?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=sYcvbBpJas&rank=4 Ellul's The Technological Society: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274827.The_Technological_Society?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=9GuR2pCBkB&rank=1 How Propaganda Works: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23528852-how-propaganda-works?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=SdsoZRmEfP&rank=1 Bernays: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493212.Propaganda?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=nLKZvnmF43&rank=1 Freedom convoy's economic losses: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/freedom-convoy-disruptions-cost-auto-industry-millions-rcna16318 Thomas Kuhn: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=8gWeU2O6xi&rank=1 Havel's Power of the Powerless: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/1979/01/the-power-of-the-powerless.pdf Kruse's White Flight: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/345070.White_Flight?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=oMZgfb4CoR&rank=1 Willie Horton Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdJ97qWHOxo 0:00 - Introduction3:00 - What is Propaganda?21:30 - Why are people susceptible to propaganda?33:00 - Who does propaganda influence?38:30 How is propaganda implemented?59:00 - How does propaganda elude detection?1:04:00 Mithridatism and Sensitization ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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In this episode we discuss chapter 2 of Jacques Ellul's book The Technological Society.https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Society-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394703901Free Audiobook:https://odysee.com/@organdonor:7/The-Technological-Society-Audio-book:6
In the fourth episode of Conversations About Culture, Dr. Drew Landry is joined by Jason Thacker to discuss the nature of Cancel Culture. Jason serves as chair of research in technology ethics and director of the research institute at The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. He also serves as an adjunct instructor of philosophy, ethics, and worldview at Boyce College in Louisville, KY. He is the author of several books including Following Jesus in the Digital Age and The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. He also serves as the editor of The Digital Public Square: Christian Ethics in a Technological Society and co-editor of the Essentials in Christian Ethics series with B&H Academic. He is the project leader and lead drafter of Artificial Intelligence: An Evangelical Statement of Principles, and his work has been featured at Slate, Politico, The Week, USA Today, Christianity Today, World Magazine, The Gospel Coalition, and Desiring God. He is a graduate of The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies. He also holds a Master of Divinity from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he is currently pursuing a PhD in ethics, public theology, and philosophy. He serves as an associate fellow with the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge, an advisor for AI and Faith, fellow in science and technology at the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Seminary, and a research fellow with the ERLC Research Institute. He is married to Dorie and they have two sons. They live outside of Nashville, TN.
Join us as we read Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society and think about it's relevance for today. This week we begin with the first chapter.
Brooke Medina serves as Vice President of Communications for the John Locke Foundation, a free-market think tank in North Carolina. Brooke's writing has been published in outlets such as The Hill, Entrepreneur, Washington Examiner, Daily Signal, and she is a regular contributor at WORLD Magazine. Brooke and her husband James have four children and live in Raleigh, NC and attend the Summit Church. She is a contributor to the upcoming book, The Digital Public Square: Ethics and Religion in a Technological Society, which will release in November 2022
Brooke Medina serves as Vice President of Communications for the John Locke Foundation, a free-market think tank in North Carolina. Brooke's writing has been published in outlets such as The Hill, Entrepreneur, Washington Examiner, Daily Signal, and she is a regular contributor at WORLD Magazine. Brooke and her husband James have four children and live in Raleigh, NC and attend the Summit Church. She is a contributor to the upcoming book, The Digital Public Square: Ethics and Religion in a Technological Society, which will release in November 2022
We are like frogs in a frying pan at a slow boil. Big tech censorship, authoritarian policies, AI algorithms, you name it. Technology is a blessing and a curse. Or is it all a curse? Join us as we read through Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society and discuss its meaning and application to our current moment. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274827.The_Technological_Society
Are you a Coffee Achiever?, Batman analysis, Grant Morrison, Scott Snyder, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, Mass Formation Psychosis, Freud, The Future of an Illusion, religion, What is mental health in an insane world?, constant crisis, the Joker, "needing" to follow leaders, 100% agreement complex, following political pundits and philosophers as if they were super-heroes, Wittgenstein, Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, overrating memes, wojaks, internet arguments, internet stalking, transference, "Florida Guy" radio host, bidets, Warhol's dirty underwear, Warhol / Chris Chan, Warhol's time capsules, "dirty crapped briefs", "anal symbolism in Hollywood movies", John Adams (podcaster), numerology, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Unabomber, AnPrim Gang (anarchoprimitivism), "return to monke", remakes, traditional culture heroes, Greek mythology, capitalism, Shakespeare's plays, folktales, Faust, Marlowe, Goethe, ancient Greek tragedy, Sophocles, conceit of originality, copyright laws, everything being recorded, Baudrillard, hyperreal, nostalgia, Britpop, Oasis, Beatles, Tony Blair, John Lydon, Tom Snyder interview, Do people deserve a better world?, Elon Musk, "Why Aren't They Dead Yet?", people openly wishing death on large swathes of the population, affect of pandemic lockdowns on kids, Andy Warhol's childhood, "think of the children", Klaus Schwab, autism, Blake Gopnik, two years of low-level trauma, Batman '89 movie, Frank Miller, adults consuming kids' entertainment, Lord of the Rings movies, Batwoman tv show, group psychology, My Dinner with Andre, Unabomber, anarcho primitivism, Spider-Man, Superman, Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, comic books, villains, coitus interruptus, mega-capitalists, bailouts, philanthropy, Keynesian economics, the magic money printer, welfare, grievance, Marxist interpretation, stimulus checks, the Rat Utopia experiment, Zarathustra, leaving the city, Charles Galton Darwin, Nick Gillespie, dystopian literature, 1984, Soviet Union, Victoria Jackson, Obama, cult of personality, Bush, Trump. Closing song: "Arch of the Aorta" by Fad Gadget.
"It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brain and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador any greater wildness than in some recess in Concord, i.e., than I import into it." —Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1856 Cabin is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021. Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content. Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com SOURCES (Ep. 9): - Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1954): amzn.to/3o2zdmy ; - An anonymous comment submitted to relentlesspicnic.com, Feb. 29, 2020 ; - Plato, Apology (40C-41C); - "The Last Frontier: Homesteaders on the margins of America" by Ted Conover (Harper's; Aug. 2019): bit.ly/3KyesLl ; - season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998.
"So I agree with the anarcho-primitivists that the advent of civilization was a great disaster and that the Industrial Revolution was an even greater one. I further agree that a revolution against modernity, and against civilization in general, is necessary. But you can't build an effective revolutionary movement out of soft-headed dreamers, lazies, and charlatans. You have to have tough-minded, realistic, practical people, and people of that kind don't need the anarcho-primitivists' mushy utopian myth." —T. Kaczynski, "The Truth About Primitive Life: A Critique of Anarcho-Primitivism," 2008. Cabin is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021. Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content. Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com SOURCES (Ep. 8): - Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, by Bruno Latour (1999): bit.ly/3qxCaxK ; - The Unabomber In His Own Words (2018), dir. Mick Grogan, on Netflix: bit.ly/2DbHkuh ; - Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber”, ed. and introduction by David Skirbina, 2010: amzn.to/2STTFYH ; - Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1954): amzn.to/3o2zdmy ; - "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" by Bill Joy, Wired (4/1/00): bit.ly/3hw5uQD ; - "Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber" by Alston Chase, Atlantic (June 2000): bit.ly/3mISjzh ; - "Eco-terrorists set fire to Vail Mountain 20 years ago, and the response showed how mutual aid could benefit mountain communities" by Randy Wyrick, Denver Post (10/27/18): dpo.st/3EKRHzF ; - season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998.
You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/ I speak to Paul about freedom under liberalism, his conversion to Romanian Orthodoxy, the possibility of a truly secular society, transhumanism, the English people and their right to self-determination, the hedonic treadmill, London as the new Babel, what is Hell, scientism and the race for the preservation of bare life under Covid, materialism, localism, AI, technocapital and more. Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer and former environmental activist who lives in the west of Ireland. He is the former deputy editor of The Ecologist and the co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. You can find his work on his website https://www.paulkingsnorth.net/ and his Substack, The Abbey of Misrule. His recommended subversive is Jaques Ellul and his book The Technological Society (plus a nod to Uncle Ted, who has explored similar territory). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aksubversive/message
v.3.1 Updated: 2021-12-16 1:43 PMIn this episode we discuss the impact of Covid-19 vaccine mandates on our society, with a specific focus on the way the mandates have been implemented in the context of higher education. We describe how students, staff and faculty in our universities have been callously kicked to the curb simply because they have chosen to avoid taking the Covid-19 biologicals. Although there are provisions for exemptions from these mandates, there are indications that the large majority of exemption requests are being denied. The coercive pressure to vaccinate is intense and unrelenting. The exclusion of the vaccine-free from the academy amounts to a systematic ideological purge wherein free thinkers and refuseniks are expelled or forced into exile, leaving only the fearful and the compliant in our institutions of higher learning. Critically, we detail how the fundamental assumption underlying the vaccine mandates--namely that the Covid-19 biologicals prevent infection and spread of SARS-CoV-2--is inconsistent with the findings of scientific studies published in top peer-reviewed medical journals.Episode Timeline & Notes0:00:41 - Opening SegmentNo One Noticed This Pfizer Conflict of Interest Hiding In Plain Sight | DM CLIPS | Rubin Report - YouTube0:03:08 - Vax Mandate UpdateUnvaccinated Canadians can be banned from grocery stores in New Brunswick | True NorthN.B. COVID-19 roundup: Winter plan goes into effect Saturday night, 2 deaths, 97 new cases | CBC NewsOntario extends COVID-19 proof-of-vaccination system, expands booster eligibility –December 10, 2021 - YouTubeOmicron Symptoms Mostly Mild or Asymptomatic in US, Europe: OfficialsNoRisk_NoReward on Twitter: "‘OMICRON VARIANT' IS COMING, ALL THE WAY FROM BOTSWANA. INTERESTING CHOICE OF NAME... | Twitter0:16:28 - University MandatesBrilliant University Professor Put on Leave over Non-Disclosed Vaccine Status - Rebel News0:20:02 - Goodbye TenureJanice Fiamengo | How Covid-19 Killed Academic Tenure | The PipelineEthics professor threatened with dismissal for refusing vaccine – Canadian Covid Care AllianceMedical Ethics Director & Professor Sues Over Covid Vaccine Mandate || Dr. Aaron Kheriaty - YouTubePART 1: Suspended Medical Ethics Professor Aaron Kheriaty on Vaccine Coercion, Risks, and Natural Immunity0:27:05 - ExemptionsDr. Julie Ponesse Gets Terminated From Western University For Refusing The Covid-19 Vaccine0:33:28 - The Exemption FallacySept. 1 | CTV News | Truth Tracker: Do vaccine mandates violate Canadians' charter rights?Sept. 7 | CTV News | Truth Tracker: Do COVID-19 vaccines violate the Nuremberg Code?Nov. 4 | National Post | Opinion: Why refusing the vaccine isn't inherently ChristianYouTube | Sept. 8 | CBC News | Do COVID-19 vaccine mandates violate civil liberties? (see 05:37ff - Religious exemptions)Military Vaccine Scandal Exposed: Liz Wheeler, Eric Metaxas, Sean Spicer | ROUNDTABLE | Rubin Report - YouTubeCharitable Status at Issue In The 2021 Federal Election - CCCC News & BlogsNo Exceptions: A Story of Medical Tyranny in Australia | Bret Weinstein | YouTubeCOVID vaccine allegedly causes cornea implant rejection - Rebel NewsDave Rubin on Twitter: "Evil." | (Trudeau Flip-Flop on Vaccine Mandates)1:05:15 - Epistemic Pincer MovementInstructions issued by the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health - CMOH-Instructions-EN.pdf1:12:17 - Coercive Pressure1:15:27 - Ideological PurgeJanice Fiamengo | How Covid-19 Killed Academic Tenure | The Pipeline1:20:23 - Offloading RiskPfizer expects to make nearly as much revenue just from COVID-19 vaccines in 2021 as it earned in all of 2020 | Yahoo News1:27:55 - The ResistanceJanice Fiamengo | How Covid-19 Killed Academic Tenure | The PipelineDr. David Haskell: Vaccine Mandates are the Rehearsal, the Future will be Worse - YouTubeLiberty Dispatch Podcast | Liberty CoalitionRumble | Dr. Byram Bridle & Dr. Julie Ponesse Critique 19TOZERO.CA Vaccine Video | Liberty CoalitionYouTube | Simpsons S22 E6 | House cat Flu is Coming, People1:43:55 - Mandates NOT JustifiedSymposium II – Doctors for COVID EthicsUPDATE: Forcing People Into COVID Vaccines Ignores Important Scientific Data | Harvey Risch, Robert W. Malone, and Byram Bridle | Federalist1:45:12 - Infection and SpreadAn Interview With Dr. Anthony Fauci - The New York TimesCDC Director Rochelle Walensky tells Wolf Blitzer that COVID Vaccines won't prevent transmission - YouTubeAssessment of Communication Strategies for Mitigating COVID-19 Vaccine-Specific Hesitancy in Canada | Vaccination | JAMA Network Open | JAMA NetworkWHO / COVID-19 UPDATE | United Nations UN Audiovisual LibraryBill Gates speaks to Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP in exclusive Policy Exchange interview - YouTubeSARS-CoV-2 vaccine protection and deaths among US veterans during 2021 | ScienceBreakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections in 620,000 U.S. Veterans, February 1, 2021 to August 13, 2021 - 2021.10.13.21264966.full.pdf | medrxiv.orgScience Brief: SARS-CoV-2 Infection-induced and Vaccine-induced Immunity | CDCCommunity transmission and viral load kinetics of the SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) variant in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in the UK: a prospective, longitudinal, cohort study - PIIS1473309921006484.pdf | LancetLeaky Vaccines Enhance Spread of Deadlier Chicken Viruses | National Geographic - ScienceIncreases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States | SpringerLinkCOVID-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified - PIIS0140673621022431.pdf | Günter Kampf | LancetMedia Bias & the Collectivist Ethos | Julie Ponesse & David Haskell - YouTubeCovid-19: Fully vaccinated people can carry as much delta virus as unvaccinated people, data indicate - bmj.n2074.full.pdf | BMJ2:12:01 - Natural ImmunitySARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans | NatureLongitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells - mmc2.pdf | CellNatural Immunity and Covid-19: Thirty Scientific Studies to Share with Employers, Health Officials, and Politicians | Brownstone Institute81 Research Studies Confirm Natural Immunity to COVID ‘Equal' or ‘Superior' to Vaccine Immunity | Children's Health DefenseSee Also: Supporting Evidence – COVID-Recovered Immunity is Durable | Global Covid SummitURGENT: A huge Israeli study shows natural Covid immunity is far superior to the vaccine-generated kind | Alex Berenson2:14:06 - All Cause MortalityNorman Fenton interviewed by Majid Nawaz, LBC Radio, 4 Dec 2021 - YouTubeAnalysing Covid vaccine efficiency and safety statistics - YouTubePfizer documents reveal variety of vaccine side effects | RT USA News5.3.6 CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENTREPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021 | PDF | phmpt.orgCumulative Analysis of Early On Pfizer Vaccine Data - released by the FDA 11-17 | reAct19.orgWait what? FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine data | ReutersFDA Says It Now Needs 75 Years to Fully Release Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Data | Epoch TimesFDA wants 75 years to release Pfizer Vax Data | RT America | YouTubeHumour: Why Life Jackets Should Be Mandatory! | AwakenWithJP - YouTubeCovid: The Path not Taken | DarkHorse Podcast with Dr. Peter McCullough | YouTube2:23:32 - Key PointsThe god that failed - by Alex Berenson - Unreported Truths2:25:33 - Summary and ClosingPaul Kingsnorth: why I changed sides in the vaccine wars - YouTubeEllul, Jacques. The Technological Society. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1964, Kindle Edition.2:34:11 - 12 Shots of Pfizer ParodyExtrasNEW Book | Dr. Julie Ponesse | My Choice: The Ethical Case Against Covid-19 Vaccine MandatesWhether there is a moral obligation to disobey the coercive mandates | Douglas Farrow – Catholic World ReportWhether there is a moral obligation to be vaccinated | Douglas Farrow – Catholic World ReportTotalitarianism and the Five Stages of Dehumanization | Brownstone InstituteForcing People Into COVID Vaccines Ignores Important Scientific Data | Federalist16,000 Physicians and Scientists Agree Kids Shouldn't Get COVID Vaccine | Children's Health DefenseBefore You Inject Your Child | Dr. Malone Archive | SubstackResistance ConsensusDeclaration Of Canadian Physicians For Science And TruthCanadian Covid Care AllianceCCCA-Declaration-Final_v6_Sept26th2021.pdfCanada Health Alliance – Standing up for health freedom!Open_Letter_to_Henry_Dix_Horgan_Eby_Oct_6_2021.pdfGlobal Covid SummitPhysicians Declaration II – Updated | Global Covid SummitDoctors for COVID EthicsSymposium II – Doctors for COVID EthicsThe Unity ProjectInternational Covid SummitFLCCC | Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care AllianceEarly COVID Care Experts | Hope Is RealGreat Barrington DeclarationThe Democracy FundLiberty Coalition CanadaReal not RarePurpose: to raise awareness of the many vaccine injuries that are happening and to create a community of public support.Groups | Real, Not RarereAct19.org | A research focused grassroots organization made up of patients, scientists and physicians.Cumulative Analysis of Early On Pfizer Vaccine Data - released by the FDA 11-17 | reAct19.orgWhere to Find UsWebsite:notconformed.shownotconformed.simplecast.comEmail:info@notconformed.shownotconformed@protonmail.comGab.com:@NotConformedRSS Feed:https://feeds.simplecast.com/Q7v05iI6MP3 Download Link:Episode 32: Ideological Purge (.mp3)
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Continuing their series on the tarot, Phil and JF discuss the card nobody wants to see in a reading – The Tower. Featuring lightning bolts, plumes of ominous smoke, and figures plummeting from the windows, the Tower's meaning at first glance seems clear: “pride comes before a fall,” as the old adage goes. But as JF and Phil delve into the details, they note not only the card's connection to the Biblical tower of Babel and the fall of man, but also its relevance to the present era's systems of control and communication breakdown. This discussion leads them to search for an antidote to the Tower's message of destruction. References Anonymous, Meditations on the Tarot (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781585421619) Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Way of the Tarot (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781594772634) Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780226458120) Arnold Schoenberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg), Austrian composer Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control” (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control) Wilco, “Radio Cure” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm-MpLGfogA) Richard Dyer, Heavenly Bodies (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780415310277) George Cukor (dir.), A Star is Born (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047522/) Performativity, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performativity) sociological concept Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9785841295051) Jaques Ellul, The Technological Society (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780394703909)
Introduction to the philosophy of law argument and concept that law is a religion in present post-modern Technological Society. This conclusion is a final comment on the previous multiple-part contemplation asking whether law has become a religion in Technological Society? The post #110: Law as Religion / Conclusion appeared first on Sand Pebbles Podcast.
Introduction to the philosophy of law argument and concept that law is a religion in present post-modern Technological Society. This Part I of III contemplates the necessity of having law as a religion in Technological Society. The post #107: Law as Religion / Part I: The Necessity of Having Law as a Religion appeared first on Sand Pebbles Podcast.
Introduction to the philosophy of law argument and concept that law is a religion in present post-modern Technological Society. The post #106: Law as Religion / Introduction appeared first on Sand Pebbles Podcast.
Introduction to the philosophy of law argument and concept that law is a religion in present post-modern Technological Society. This Part II of III asks what is religion in Technological Society? The post #108: Law as Religion / Part II: What is Religion? appeared first on Sand Pebbles Podcast.
Introduction to the philosophy of law argument and concept that law is a religion in present post-modern Technological Society. This Part III of III asks what is law in Technological Society? The post #109: Law as Religion / Part III: What is Law? appeared first on Sand Pebbles Podcast.
You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify.Of late, I've had occasion to turn again to the work of Jacques Ellul, the 20th century French scholar and lay theologian, regarded by some as the most prolific and insightful Christian social critic of the last century. Specifically, I was reminded of his critique of what he called “technical humanism” by the recent discussions of both the documentary The Social Dilemma and the Center for Humane Technology with which the film is associated. Several individuals connected with the center, former Google employee Tristan Harris most prominent among them, appear in the documentary about the social ills of social media. Writing in The Technological Society, which was first published in 1954, Ellul noted that “the claims of the human being have thus come to assert themselves to a greater and greater degree in the development of techniques; this is known as 'humanizing the techniques.'” But Ellul, who had up to that point in his book gone to great lengths to demonstrate how technique had thoroughly captured society, was not impressed.Ellul defined technique as “the totality of methods, rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (for a given stage of development) in every field of human activity.” Ellul understood that what mattered most about modern technology was not any one artifact or system, but rather a way of being in the world. This form of life or fundamental disposition precedes, sustains, and is reinforced by the material technological order. When we consider the question of human flourishing, we do well to ask, as Dr. Horner has taught us so well, “What frames what?” What sets the terms for what counts as human flourishing? Today, there are many examples of new devices, apps, and tools that promise to help us lead healthier lives, make better decisions, find peace of mind, and much more besides. But these technologies, seemingly designed with our good in mind, do little to change the status quo that rendered them necessary. Would we need mindfulness apps if we weren't already living in a sea of digitally mediated distraction? Would we need to count our steps if we lived in places built at a more human scale and which invited walking or held jobs that did not involve sitting endlessly behind a screen. Rarely is there an effort to ask what is good for the human being as such. Instead, as Ellul already recognized more than half a century ago, the real concern is to keep the human component of the larger technological order working marginally well, even if that larger order is fundamentally inhospitable to human beings.So, for example, Ellul went on to observe that if we seek the “real reason” for humanizing technology “we hear over and over again that there is ‘something out of line' in the technical system, an insupportable state of affairs for a technician. A remedy must be found." But, Ellul invites us to ask, “What is out of line?” “According to the usual superficial analysis,” Ellul answers, “it is man that is amiss. The technician thereupon tackles the problem as he would any other. But he considers man only as an object of technique and only to the degree that man interferes with the proper function of the technique.”In other words, he continued, “Technique reveals its essential efficiency in discerning that man has a sentimental and moral life. These factors are, for technique, human and subjective; but if means can be found to act upon them, to rationalize them and bring them into line, they need not be a technical drawback. Of course, man as such does not count.”This humanizing of technology presumes the existing techno-social status quo and ultimately serves its interests. It only amounts to a recalibration of the person so that they may fit all the more seamlessly into the operations of the existing techno-economic order of things. That techno-economic order is itself rarely questioned; it is taken mostly for granted, the myth of inevitability covering a multitude of sins.I'm not sure we can say that contemporary proponents of humane technology reason precisely by this logic. But neither do I think that they avoid ending up in much the same place, practically speaking. Consider the proliferation of devices and apps, some of which the Center for Humane Technology promotes, which are designed to gather data about everything from our steps to our sleep habits in order to help us optimize, maximize, manage, or otherwise finely calibrate our bodies and our minds. The calibration becomes necessary because the rhythms and patterns of our industrialized and digitized world have proven to be inhospitable to human well-being, while, nonetheless, alleviating certain forms of suffering. One might say that while, for many, although certainly not all, modern technological society has managed to supply various material needs, it has been less adept at meeting many of our non-material needs. And it would be a serious mistake to imagine that only our material needs mattered. So now the same techno-economic forces present themselves as the solution to the problems they have generated. In Ellul's terms, the answer to problems generated by technique is the application of ever more sophisticated and invasive techniques. The more general technological milieu is never challenged, and there's very little by way of a robust account of what human flourishing might look like independent of the present technological milieu. “It seems impossible to speak of a technical humanism,” Ellul concluded after some further discussion of the matter. It was more likely, in his view, that human beings would simply be forced to adapt to the shape of the technological system. “The whole stock of ideologies, feelings, principles, beliefs, etc. that people continue to carry around and which are derived from traditional situations,” these Ellul believed would only be conceived as unfortunate idiosyncrasies to be eliminated so that the techno-economic system may operate ever more efficiently. “It is necessary (and this is the ethical choice!) to liquidate all such holdovers,” he continued sarcastically, “and to lead humanity to a perfect operational adaptation that will bring about the greatest possible benefit from the technique. Adaptation becomes a moral criterion.”Now, while readers of The Technological Society would be forgiven for assuming that Ellul was overly fatalistic, providing neither a path forward nor any measure of hope, that was not exactly true. It's just that Ellul intended for readers to engage the whole of his corpus (over 40 books!) and read his sociological works in dialectic tension with his theological reflections, in which Kierkegaard and the Swiss theologian Karl Barth loom large. One might even say that, in this expectation, Ellul was, in fact, overly optimistic! In any case, he did make an argument for the value freedom as it arises out of a condition of perceived necessity presented by contemporary technology. It was precisely against the background of necessity that freedom could exist.To one interviewer he said, “I would say two things to explain the tenor of my writings. I would say … that as long as men believe that things will resolve themselves, they will do nothing on their own. But when the situation appears to be absolutely deadlocked and tragic, then men will try and do something.” Seen in this light, Ellul's work was an effort not simply to instruct but also to provoke. And it is to provoke us toward the realization of a measure of freedom available only when we fully reckon with the reality that opposes it.I would only add this note in closing. We ought to understand freedom as having two dimensions: freedom from and freedom for. Too often we fail to consider that freedom is fully realized only when it is conceived not only as a freedom from restraint, but also as a freedom to fulfill a deeper calling toward which freedom itself is but a penultimate means. The two are related but not identical. What Ellul would have us see is that the modern technological order tends to promise the former while simultaneously eroding the latter.Mike SacasasAssociate DirectorStudy Center ResourcesOur spring program is in full swing this month. Dr. Horner and Mike Sacasas are each teaching director's classes. If you receive this newsletter in your inbox, then you are also receiving the audio from those classes. We also have two reading groups in progress. The Dante reading group is completing its journey through the Divine Comedy with Paradiso, and our Monday evening reading group will be discussing the second half of Alan Jacobs's Breaking Bread With the Dead at its next meeting on February 15th. Finally, Mike Sacasas will be presenting the first of three lecture on the work of Ivan Illich next Wednesday, February 10th at 8PM. The talk will be offered as a Zoom webinar and you can learn more about the series and register for the lecture here. If you have any questions about our program, please contact Mike at mike@christianstudycenter.org. Recommended Reading— Timothy Larsen on “Why George MacDonald Matters”:To this day, readers often find Phantastes to be a deeply strange novel. Nevertheless, we are steadied and orientated by all the fantasy literature that has grown out of it like realist novels suddenly animated by magic. We have Tolkien, but Tolkien only had MacDonald and his followers. To put the point bluntly, no MacDonald, no Tolkien. It is still a curious book, but as it was the starting point of something new, Phantastes was immeasurably weirder for its original readers. — A helpful introduction to the work of Jacques Ellul from David Gill, “Jacques Ellul: The Prophet as Theologian.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudycenter.substack.com
“‘Oh!' say the technophiles, ‘Science is going to fix all that! We will conquer famine, eliminate psychological suffering, make everybody healthy and happy!' Yeah, sure. The technophiles are hopelessly naive (or self-deceiving) in their understanding of social problems. Thus it will take a long and difficult period of trial and error for the technophiles to work the bugs out of their Brave New World (if they ever do). In the mean time there will be great suffering.” —T. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future (1995). Cabin is the new season from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over multiple episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019 and 2020. New episodes biweekly—or close to biweekly. Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content. Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com SOURCES (Ep. 7): - The Unabomber In His Own Words (2018), dir. Mick Grogan, on Netflix: bit.ly/2DbHkuh ; - Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber”, ed. and introduction by David Skirbina, 2010: amzn.to/2STTFYH ; - Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by H.D. Thoreau (1854): bit.ly/35RyPPQ ; - Patrick Conley: bit.ly/3pGdIIL ; - Ken Baumann: bit.ly/2WUmHK1 ; - Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1954): amzn.to/3o2zdmy ; - Eric Hoffer, The True Believer (1951): amzn.to/34TDrFl ; - The History of Violence in America, eds. H.D. Graham & T.R. Gurr (1969): amzn.to/3rCmGsl ; - Chester C. Tan, Chinese Political Thought in the Twentieth Century (1971): amzn.to/3aUNCgQ ; - L. Sprague de Camp, The Ancient Engineers (1963): amzn.to/3o8lavW ; - “Why the Future Doesn't Need Us,” by Bill Joy (WIRED, Apr., 2000): bit.ly/3hw5uQD ; - season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998.
Joel Lawrence, Bonhoeffer scholar and Executive Director of the Center for Pastor Theologians, joins Justin and Stephen to discuss the life, theology, and ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Joel also talks about the difficulties and benefits of applying the lessons of 20th century Germany to the American context today. The discussion includes conversation Bonhoeffer’s time in the US, the African American influence on Bonhoeffer, and the illegal seminary at Finkenwalde. Justin, Stephen, and Joel discuss themes of confession (vs. accountability), morality, ethics, the church in a world come of age, Christian nationalism, power, and eschatology. They also consider the role of pastor theologians and the academy.Justin and Stephen also consider the theme of nostalgia as the holidays approach. We have show notes for you at profsinrooms.com and bonus material on Patreon!To donate to production costs, visit profsinrooms.com or become a patron. Resources from this episode: Resources from Justin and Stephen’s conversation:Prof in Rooms guest (S2, E1) Michial Farmer on “The Uses of Nostalgia”Stephen’s post about “Feeling the Loss in Leaving”Stephen’s book Transitions Across Cultures on Bookshop or AmazonBackground podcasts and videos about Bonhoeffer and about Joel:Two podcasts episode Joel appeared on entitled “Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Pastoral Journey”Lecture (video) Joel gave entitled “Death Together: Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Becoming the Church for Others”Podcast about “Becoming a Pastor Theologian” References from the conversation with Joel: Center for Pastor TheologiansMartin Buber’s I and Thou on Bookshop or AmazonJames Loewen’s Sundown Towns on Bookshop or AmazonKathrine Stewart’s The Power Worshippers on Bookshop or AmazonJoel’s article “Pastoring in the Age of Anger” Pankaj Mishra’s Age of Anger on Bookshop or AmazonOliver O’Donovan’s Common Objects of Love on Bookshop or AmazonJaques Ellul’s The Subversion of Christianity on Bookshop or AmazonJaques Ellul’s Money and Power on Bookshop or AmazonJaques Ellul’s The Technological Society on Bookshop or AmazonBonhoeffer Resources:Joel’s book: Bonhoeffer: A Guide for the Perplexed on Bookshop or AmazonBonhoeffer: Sanctorum Communio on Bookshop or AmazonBonhoeffer: Christ the Center on Bookshop or AmazonBonhoeffer: Ethics on Bookshop or AmazonBonhoeffer: Cost of Discipleship on Bookshop or AmazonBonhoeffer: Life Together on Bookshop or AmazonBonhoeffer: Letters and Papers from Prison on Bookshop or AmazonBonhoeffer: Creation and Fall on Bookshop or AmazonMartin Doblmeier’s documentary: Bonhoeffer at IMDBEberhard Bethge’s Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography on Bookshop or AmazonPaul House’s Bonhoeffer’s Seminary Vision on Bookshop or AmazonBonhoeffer: Act and Being on Bookshop or AmazonAbout Joel Lawrence: Dr. Joel Lawrence serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Pastor Theologians. Prior to this role, Joel served for seven years as the Senior Pastor of Central Baptist Church (St Paul, MN) and for eight years on the faculty at Bethel Seminary, teaching systematic theology and ethics. Joel holds degrees from Texas A&M University (B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (ThM.), and Cambridge University (MPhil. and PhD.). He is the author of Bonhoeffer: A Guide for the Perplexed (T&T Clark, 2010), as well as numerous articles and chapters in books on a variety of theological and pastoral subjects. Credits: Regular Theme Music by Josiah Enns. This episode was recorded on the land of the Wahpekute, Anishinabewaki, and the Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux).We may receive commission from Amazon or Bookshop.org for purchases made through some of our links. Thank you for your support.
I ruminate on the perceived authority of print and consider how we define the word ‘computer’ in 2020. Notes Dithering podcast by Ben Thompson and John Gruber Ellul, J., 1964, The Technological Society; translated from the French by John Wilkinson; with an introd. by Robert K Merton, Knopf. ‘iPad Pro — What’s a Computer?’ on … Continue reading "38. Typos and Consoles"
The Madman rambles on about how fragile the complicated technologies that we can today and in an bad cataclysmic situation for the society how all this technologies and scientific knowledge will be lost…….. can the society save these information? ………. the madman rambles on…… Background music: cosimo-fogg-201-jazzaddicts-intro Twitter: @podcastofmadman --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Technology is the means by which we obtain certain goals, and using technology is part of being human. Yet in an age when technology increasingly dominates our lives, what does the Word of God have to say about it? Join us as we discuss why technology isn't a neutral issue, some of what the Lord says about it, and why bringing up the Amish is a red herring. Hosts: Rev. Willie Grills and Rev. Zelwyn Heide Regular Guest: Rev. Adam Koontz Episode: 68 Find articles and other podcast episodes on our website: wordfitlyspoken.org Follow us on Twitter: @wordfitly Send us a message: podcast@wordfitlyspoken.org Subscribe to the podcast: RSS Feed, iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app.
Topics VirtualReality, Technology, Society, Jacques Ellul Kelitobrigante, Matti, Uninstall Media and Adam discuss: Technological Society, Benevolent Progress, Virtual Empathy, among other things. Part 1 of 2Jacques Ellul playlist How Cooking Meth in Virtual Reality Can Bring People Closer TogetherCan Virtual Reality Bring World Peace?Using Virtual Reality To Help Kids With AutismHospital Uses VR To Make Shots Easier For Kids7 Ways To Overcome VR Motion Sickness
Nima discusses the latest of many dire climate change reports. Sources: "U.S. impacts of climate change are intensifying, federal report says"(https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/23/climate-change-intensifying-economy-impacted-federal-report-finds/2093291002/) The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul (https://archive.org/stream/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSociety/Jacques%20Ellul%20-%20The%20Technological%20Society_djvu.txt) Club of Rome invents global warming hoax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome#The_Limits_to_Growth) Peer reviewed science papers cited: "These estimates both have much lower upper bounds than those from a predecessor study using AR5 data ending in 2011." (https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0667.1) "solar variability has been the dominant influence on Northern Hemisphere temperature trends since at least 1881." (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825215300349) "If the climate continues its cooling and the sun behaves in a manner not witnessed since 1800, we can be sure that climate changes are dominated by the sun and that atmospheric CO2 has a very small role in climate changes. If the same climatic patterns, cyclic warming and cooling, that occurred over the past 500 years continue, we can expect several decades of moderate to severe global cooling." (http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/reprint/multidecadal_tendencies.pdf) "the ice winter severity index in the Baltic Sea is modulated by solar activity and solar motion in several frequency bands during the last 500 years." (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364682612002167) "These quantities were analyzed in two GCMs and compensating errors in the SW and LW clear-sky, cross-atmosphere radiative flux divergence were found to conspire to produce somewhat reasonable predictions of the net clear-sky divergence. Both GCMs underestimated the surface LW and SW CRF and predicted near-zero SW CRE when the measured values were substantially larger (~70 W m−2 maximum)." (http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00072.1?af=R) "These findings, together with the missing orbital signature in published dendrochronological records, suggest that large-scale near-surface air-temperature reconstructions relying on tree-ring data may underestimate pre-instrumental temperatures including warmth during Medieval and Roman times." (http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n12/full/nclimate1589.html) "(…) resulting in the conclusion that the early MCA was warmer than the late 20th century by ~ 1 °C." (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018212003926) "the global temperature increase during the last century is between 0.4°C and 0.7°C, where these two values are the estimates derived from raw and adjusted data, respectively." (http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/docinfo/1212/) "Highest pre-industrial summer temperatures of the 12th century were 0.3 °C warmer than the 20th century." (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379112001680) "the periods in which solar activity agents affecting the Earth are predominantly related to solar toroidal or poloidal fields are the periods in which the North Atlantic Oscillation is negatively or positively correlated with solar activity, respectively." (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364682612001393) "25–56% of the temperature increase the last 150 years may be attributed to the Sun. For 3 North Atlantic stations we get 63–72% solar contribution." (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364682612000417) Oregon Petition (http://www.petitionproject.org) 1,350+ peer reviewed research papers supporting the skeptic's view: http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html#General Another 100+: http://notrickszone.com/100-papers-sun-drives-climate/#sthash.7JBjco1q.uUrhUs2q.dpbs
A contemplation of the basic principles of the old school aesthetics of the ancients and of medieval philosophy before the scientific and industrial revolutions and thus before the skepticism of modern philosophy and our Technological Society. The post #79: Aesthetics Old School appeared first on Sand Pebbles Podcast.
A contemplation of the basic principles and struggles of new school aesthetics that were given birth or created by the skepticism of the scientific and industrial revolutions and by the skepticism of modern philosophy and our Technological Society. The post #80: Aesthetics New School appeared first on Sand Pebbles Podcast.
This recent article written by The Guardian's critic of architecture Oliver Wainwright about Zaha Hadid's Baku Prize winner for the Heydar Aliyev Center raises a range of questions and concerns from land acquisition by dispossession for extractive operations, pipeline corridors, urban development, to the ethical stance of architecture. The aim of this text does not concern the Heydar Aliyev Center itself which, in my view, is a beautiful building, very Zaha-Hadid signature. I, however, will retain one but very essential question: land acquisition by dispossession. This issue of land acquisition by dispossession along with displacement and proletarianization of the very population that live in peripheral, remote locations is at core of the formation of frontier zones. Below is some hints, or short reflections on this practice.Land acquisition by dispossession poses the question of the place and status of the body, those who live in these areas and are, consequently, affected by oil activities. Along with affected local residents is the question of land at issue illustrated by dispute, protests, sabotage or compromises as well as deterritorialization, reterritorialization in these exclusive territories. What I propose below is some glances from my ongoing research on urbanism, infrastructural design related to resource extraction — part of Contingency, the first volume of Uncertain Territories —, more precisely on operationalized landscapes with this question in mind: what design opportunities for such peripheral regions? What can architecture do to tackle these complexities?Re-Rigging. 2010 | © Lateral Office/Infranet LabImage originally appeared on Fei-Ling Tseng's website"The government has pursued a programme of illegal expropriation and forced eviction across the city, without proper compensation of its residents," Oliver Wainwright writes. On May 10, 2013, it has been reported that more than 3.641 apartments and private properties have been demolished in the center of Baku, a zone named as 'zone of illegal demolition.'Shocking though this can be, land acquisition by dispossession, along with displacement and proletarianization of local populations, is a common practice in extractive regions. Extractive activities demand huge amounts of land for extraction, production and distribution of oil via the pipelines and other transportation networks.Allow me for engaging in a more technical analysis of land acquisition before going any further. In her recent book Subtraction, Keller Easterling has proposed this term 'subtraction' to explain the act of building removal. Land acquisition by dispossession can be associated with 'subtraction' as shown in regions affected by conflicts as well as in frontier zones. To limit the discussion to the frontier zones of resource extraction, this practice of subtraction consists in scraping buildings in order to acquire lands for, mostly, operationalization and reorganization of landscapes for corporate profits. In our case, this practice of land acquisition by dispossession provides a large amount of lands available for oil activities in which local residents are disallowed to live or cultivate. To facilitate such practice, the 'Resettlement Action Plan' has been implemented in order to compensate to the affected local landowners for the construction of pipeline corridors. If many landowners have received compensation, some complained to have lost their land by force or live near the pipelines. James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello have met many residents who have lost their lands accusing local authorities and multinational operators for having illegally purchased or forced people to sell their lands with no compensation despite the 'Resettlement Action Plan'. In some cases, corruption and lack of transparency can be a deep problem in frontier zones. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is an example among many others. Its function is to link three countries Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey to allow for the circulation and distribution of oil to terminals. A report notes that the construction of the BTC pipeline has affected about 4,100 households in Azerbaijan, about 1,800 in Georgia. In Turkey, approximately 296 villages and 13,000 parcels have been affected by the pipeline corridor (Starr and Cornell, 2005).The 'Resettlement Action Plan' has been developed to cope with the population of these three countries affected by the construction of the BTC pipeline. The principle is to purchase or lease parcels of land for the project. In many cases, as have been said, tenants and land users have received a three-year compensation for the loss of their land. Yet, in some cases, local inhabitants living in Baku, Tbilisi, Ceyhan and along the pipeline share with the authors of The Oil Road the same statement of having been evicted from their land.Another but significant factor is these enclaves are marked by poverty and unemployment. In the case of Azerbaijan, 42% of the population is below the poverty line. Moreover, labor protests increased with workers employed at the construction of the BTC pipeline, to continue with this example (but examples of poor labor conditions in oil regions are numerous), who have complained of being mistreated in terms of working conditions, inadequate housing and medical treatment (Mitchell, 2013).As Marriott and Minio-Paluello show, the BTC pipeline is a fascinating example in terms of transparency and corporate social responsibility (CRS) (Barry, 2013, Marriott and Minio-Paluello, 2014). Allow me for a short moment to define this corporate social responsibility so that we will more easily attest its importance in frontier zones. A corporate social responsibility is an interesting tool for oil governance actors and institutions insofar as it allows to compensate and pacify affected communities and to scale up any concerns — environmental, countries, financial — related to oil production (Bridge and Le Billon, 2013). It is broadly employed everywhere a zone is constituted for exclusive operations.Re-Rigging. 2010 | © Lateral Office/InfraNet Lab"Project for a multifunctional offshore oil platform in the Caspian Sea. Can we learn from the Caspian Sea's non-human occupants to extend the momentum of oil operations into the post-oil future?"- Maya PrzybylskiImage originally appeared on e-fluxThe construction of pipeline corridors should be considered in terms of their environmental and social impacts, more specifically, how these pipeline corridors affect local populations and environment. The small village of Qarabork, 187 kilometers along the pipeline from Sangachal Terminal is an example. Marriott and Minio-Paluello state "along the pipeline's route through Azerbaijan and Georgia, there were only two places where its construction would involve destroying houses; Qarabork was one of them." A solution for the oil multinational BP, one of the oil firms very active in this region, consists in running pipelines underneath the homes of local populations, in order, on the one hand, that the pipeline be 'safe, secure and unseen' (Barry, 2013), on the other hand, that they avoid eviction and resettlement (or simply compensation). In this context, it is important to deal with such critical issues, namely affected communities, in such exclusive territories of operation. Indeed, Pipeline affected communities are defined by their distance from the pipeline route and workers' settlements, namely: "within a 2 km corridor either side of the route or are within 5 km of a potential worker camp or pipeline yard" (BTC/ESIA 2002a, Barry, 2013). The book The Oil Road provides material and spatial evidence in relation to oil operations, including the construction of road, railways, of course, pipeline corridors, oil rigs, and so forth, their impact on local communities with the transformation of daily lives, changing patterns of settlements and landscapes marked by a unclear urbanization.Above is presented a series of hints and ideas not exclusively on petropolis, but more largely, on operational landscapes and their material and spatial consequences. I received many books related to oil that I think can be very informative for architects, landscape architects, and planners to tackle this problematics. As I wrote earlier, this is an ongoing, long research part of another but large-scale research for the first volume of Uncertain Territories. I'm working on two more short papers, this time, on 'technological zone' that I find very significant and fascinating in relation to oil, and the interdependence of corporation and urbanism for oil activities.(*) About 'affected communities' see Andrew Barry, Material Politics: Dispute along the Pipeline (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).Some suggestions:Barry Andrew, Material Politics: Dispute Along the Pipeline, (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Barry Andrew, 'Technological Zones', European Journal of Social Theory, May 2006, 239-253Barry Andrew, Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society, (Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd, 2001)Bhatia Neeraj, Casper Mary (eds), The Petropolis of Tomorrow, (Actar Publishers, 2013)Bridge Gavin, Le Billon Philippe, Oil, (Polity, 2013)Brenner Neil, 'Urban theory without an outside', Harvard Design Magazine (37), 2014, 42-47Brenner Neil, Schmid Christian, Implosions/Explosions. Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization, (Jovis, 2013)Elden Stuart, The Birth of Territory, (University of Chicago Press, 2013)Easterling Keller, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades, (The MIT Press, 2008)Easterling Keller, Subtraction, (Sternberg Press, 2014)Ghosn Rania (ed.), New Geographies, 2: Landscapes of Energy, February 2010Labban Mazen, Space, Oil and Capital, (Routledge, 2008)Lefebvre Henri, The Right to the City, Writings on Cities, eds. and trans. Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas, (Blackwell, 1996 [1968])Lefebvre Henri, Le Droit à la ville (suivi de) Espace et Politique, (Seuil, 1974)Marriott James, Minio-Paluello Mika, The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London, (Verso Books, 2014)Milligan Brett/Free Association Design, A Corporate landscape urbanism, July 2010Mitchell Timothy, Carbon Democracy, (Verso Books, 2013)Przybylski Maya, "Re-Rigging Transborder Logics Across The Bounded Site", in Bhatia Neeraj, Casper Mary (eds.), The Petropolis of Tomorrow, (Actar Publishers, 2013)Reed Chris, Lister Nina-Marie, Projective Ecologies, (Actar Publishers, 2014)Rees Judith, Natural Resources. Allocation, Economics and Policy, (Routledge, 1990 [1985])Starr S. Frederick, Cornell Svante E., The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: Oil Window to the West, (Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2005)Watts Michael, 'Crude politics: Life and death on the Nigerian oil fields', 2009, (pdf)White Mason, Sheppard Lola, Coupling: Strategies for infrastructural Opportunism, (PAP, 2011)
Corruption, whether it be in government or business, has become so commonplace that most people simply ignore it. This implies that society itself has become so corrupt that those living within cannot see how horrible the situation has become. How can this be? Well, very sophisticated psychological techniques are used on us all the time, facilitating "the disappearance of reality in a world of hallucinations. Man will be led to act from real motives that are scientifically directed and increasingly irresistible; he will be brought to sacrifice himself in a real world, but for the sake of the verbal universe which has been fashioned for him. ...The ends he is expected to reach are known only to the manipulator of the mass subconscious, and to them alone." (Jacques Ellul, "The Technological Society" 371-72) In other words, the masses have been conditioned to respect authority, even when that authority is breaking all the rules that it created in the first place. There is a blind hope that these very "special" people will see the errors of their ways and repent. But psychopaths harbor no guilt or remorse for their actions. It's time people see the true face of our "leaders".
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.xml Format)
--{ Quality Controllers of Masses Always Manage, Their Own Survival and Profit From Damage: "Who Maintains this System We Call Reality And Prepares Our Minds for New Normality? Whose Purpose is Served from Contemplation, Then Mandated To Be with Our Adaptation? Are We Living by Design in Moriarty's Psychosis? They Say Unthinking Masses Learn by Osmosis, From Meme Creators, Setting Each Trend, Using Scientific Technique so Minds Will Bend To the Will of the Master who Plans Arrival, After Using the Masses for His Own Survival, Bread and Circuses are All People Need, Content Gradually Baser, Still they Feed On Authorized Productions, Trivial or Sensual, Mimicking Behaviour Destructive, the Eventual Authorities Come Forth with Fix-up Plan, Give up Freedoms for Survival of Man, Consenting to Be Slaves, Each with a Number, From Birth Through Death, Conditioned Slumber" © Alan Watt }-- Techniques of Mass Manipulation - Contingency Plans for Elite Survival through Any Possible Scenario- CFR-RIIA/Chatham House - Public Fed Bread and Circuses. National Online ID Coming In, More Power and Surveillance for Gov., Authorization to Use Internet. Propaganda/Public Relations - Edward Bernays - Molding of Society - Wall Between Government and the People - Hand-Picked Politicians, Members of CFR-RIIA - WWII, Threat of Gas Attack on Britain - Outside Influences Controlling Public Thought - Use of Slogans and Terms - Jacques Ellul, "The Technological Society" book - Education, Social Conformity and Adaptation - Rand Corporation ("Non-Profit" Think Tank) and Parallel Gov. - Man is Most Adaptable Species on Planet - New Eco-Slaves to Serve World State - Underground Bases for Elite Self-Preservation - Dependence on an Artificial System - Rand Corp. Population Studies on Soviet Union and EU, Birth Quotas and Selective Immigration - 9/11 Kickoff for Preplanned Wars - Drama/Music/Fashion Industry since Ancient Times - Media Feeds Daily Trivia, State of Anxiety - Lord Bertrand Russell, "Impact of Science on Society" book, Scientific Oligarchy, Use of "Diet, Injections and Injunctions". (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - July 2, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.xml Format)
Direction We are being Herded Towards - Legalism, Common Law, Silence is Consent - Police State, Controlled Predictable Society - Orwellian Phase. Voice-to-Skull, Audio Spotlight, Sound Beamed into Cranium - "Customized Audio Messaging" - Corporations, Security Services. Cecil Rhodes' Will, Lord Rothschild - Jesuit System, Front Organizations - Crown, Aristocracy - Parallel Government - Lord Alfred Milner, Round Table. Carroll Quigley, CFR - Foundations, Scientific Institutions, Technological Society, Cold War. Peace Corps, Missionaries - Standardizing Culture, Intelligence Gathering. Mystery Religion - Albert Pike, Freemasonry - Masonic Training, Coronati Lodge, Standardized Education - School Boards, Eastern Star - School "Grades" - "Pupil", Eye of Ra - "Degrees" - Hod and Tassel. Salem Witch Trials, "Crucible" movie - Terror of "Curses" - Australian Aborigines - New Age, Women, Birth, Nature - Control through Magic - Haiti, Voodoo - Cultural Indoctrination. Paul, Channelling in Churches - Pilgrims, Hexes - Casting Spells, Magic Potions. Rise of Standing Stones, Stonehenge - Esoteric "In the Know" - Con-Jobs - TV Evangelists, Gold, Money - The Altar - Worshipping Kings - Constantine, Christianity. YOU are Responsible for the Future - Unique Individuality - Taking Charge of Our Existence. *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 12, 2007 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)
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