#homoginization

[wqueens7]

#poem #gentrification #homoginization #cryogenicgases (at Meatpacking District, Manhattan)

[hangtime]

every town will be the same (redux)

> Not too long ago, the wire services, broadcast networks and > newspapers covered major political events differently. Each > outlet had its own take and tidbits. But now everybody is > operating off the same script and, except for a few ideological > outliers, the product is homogenous. > > ~ via [Dana Milbank](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-trending-on-twitter-groupthink/2012/10/23/130f6208-1d54-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_story.html), himself a master of bland conventional wisdom, 10/23/2012 Not everyone should have the same opinion about what the most important line from a political debate was, just like not everyone should have the same opinion about what the best album of the year is.

[evokit-notes]

We can very likely survive in a world of plastic trees, but how will it affect us psychologically, spiritually and physically? How might such an increasingly technology-driven, homogenized world affect our prospects for moral, material and social progress?

Bill McKibben | Arne Næss | Life’s Philosophy: Reason and Feeling in a Deeper World