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Syd Mead (American, 1933-2019) - Blade Runner concept art

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2006

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War is the sacrament of the technological religion - a performance in which technique displays and validates its claim to sovereignty. Victory is determined by operational success: whatever increases efficiency and destructive capability is deemed righteous.

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It is useless to rail against capitalism. Capitalism did not create our world; the machine did. Painstaking studies designed to prove the contrary have buried the obvious beneath tons of print. And, if we did not wish to play the demagogue, we must point out the guity party

"The machine is antosocial", says Lewis Mumford. "It tends, by reason of its progressive character, to the most acute forms of human exploitation"

The machine took its place in a social milieu that was not made for it, and for that reason created the inhuman society in which we live. Capitalism was therefore only one aspect of the deep disorder...

The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul, pg. 5

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“Christ is the only exit from this world. All other exits -sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence - are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them.”

- Fr. Seraphim Rose

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““[Think tanks] exert definite and even considerable influence on the process of elaborating and making political decisions. It is connected with the fact that … leaders of such centers have as a rule personal close links with the [government]. Second, the centers are created in order to prepare and adopt the major political decisions in the shade, far from public. Third, such analytical and expert centers really accumulate the best intellectual forces of the country and fourth, not always but rather often, the centers were founded simply to provide jobs to [retired] politicians.”

— 1999, Yuri Pivovarov, ‘Power Institutions in Post-Communist Russia: Official Forms and Hidden Transcripts,’ p. 18 (NATO library). The influence of Russian think tanks on the executive body seems to be many times less than is the case in the United States, but the reasons for their existence seem to be the same.

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Not all conspiracies are theories

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Seraph on a mural painting in the church Sant Pau in Esterri de Cardós, 12th century

Song: We Can Get Down

Artist: A Tribe Called Quest

Album: Midnight Marauders

Year: 1993

#music #a tribe called quest #hip hop #Spotify

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““Now that we know how positive reinforcement works, and why negative doesn’t, we can be more deliberate and hence more successful, in our cultural design. We can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled…nevertheless feel free. They are doing what they want to do, not what they are forced to do. That’s the source of the tremendous power of positive reinforcement—there’s no restraint and no revolt. By a careful design, we control not the final behavior, but the inclination to behave—the motives, the desires, the wishes. The curious thing is that in that case the question of freedom never arises.“”

— B.F Skinner, Walden Two

I still use Last FM. Had that account since 2012. Last FM is a cultural artificat. A legend. Boomed during the peak of iPod & iTunes, WinAmp, and MusicBee. Torrents aplenty

What's fun is going through all the dead accounts on that site - it's like walking down memory lane of some of the biggest artists in the past decade

Still Scrobbling my way through life

Protect Last FM at all costs