The plan is to make Peter Thiel's mentee J.D. Vance Vice President Dick Cheney and the Donald can golf. Which, from a particular point of view, is technocracy in action as Big Machine can work wonders unknown to Nature with savvy programming and well hired human interfaces able to really listen to the software instead of Prozac - not tha…
The plan is to make Peter Thiel's mentee J.D. Vance Vice President Dick Cheney and the Donald can golf. Which, from a particular point of view, is technocracy in action as Big Machine can work wonders unknown to Nature with savvy programming and well hired human interfaces able to really listen to the software instead of Prozac - not that it din't help git 'em there for sure -but now obey Big Data and Utopia will follow. Ellul's most important work, The Technological Society (1964), was originally published in French as La Technique: L'enjeu du siècle (literally, "The Stake of the Century"). In it, Ellul set forth seven characteristics of modern technology that make efficiency a necessity: rationality, artificiality, automatism of technical choice, self-augmentation, monism, universalism, and autonomy. The rationality of technique enforces logical and mechanical organization through division of labor, the setting of production standards, etc. And it creates an artificial system which "eliminates or subordinates the natural world."
Regarding technology, instead of it being subservient to humanity, "human beings have to adapt to it, and accept total change." As an example, Ellul offered the diminished value of the humanities to a technological society. As people begin to question the value of learning ancient languages and history, they question those things which, on the surface, do little to advance their financial and technical state. According to Ellul, this misplaced emphasis is one of the problems with modern education, as it produces a situation in which immense stress is placed on information in our schools. The focus in those schools is to prepare young people to enter the world of information, to be able to work with computers but knowing only their reasoning, their language, their combinations, and the connections between them. This movement is invading the whole intellectual domain and also that of conscience. https://youtu.be/izQB2-Kmiic?t=4
The plan is to make Peter Thiel's mentee J.D. Vance Vice President Dick Cheney and the Donald can golf. Which, from a particular point of view, is technocracy in action as Big Machine can work wonders unknown to Nature with savvy programming and well hired human interfaces able to really listen to the software instead of Prozac - not that it din't help git 'em there for sure -but now obey Big Data and Utopia will follow. Ellul's most important work, The Technological Society (1964), was originally published in French as La Technique: L'enjeu du siècle (literally, "The Stake of the Century"). In it, Ellul set forth seven characteristics of modern technology that make efficiency a necessity: rationality, artificiality, automatism of technical choice, self-augmentation, monism, universalism, and autonomy. The rationality of technique enforces logical and mechanical organization through division of labor, the setting of production standards, etc. And it creates an artificial system which "eliminates or subordinates the natural world."
Regarding technology, instead of it being subservient to humanity, "human beings have to adapt to it, and accept total change." As an example, Ellul offered the diminished value of the humanities to a technological society. As people begin to question the value of learning ancient languages and history, they question those things which, on the surface, do little to advance their financial and technical state. According to Ellul, this misplaced emphasis is one of the problems with modern education, as it produces a situation in which immense stress is placed on information in our schools. The focus in those schools is to prepare young people to enter the world of information, to be able to work with computers but knowing only their reasoning, their language, their combinations, and the connections between them. This movement is invading the whole intellectual domain and also that of conscience. https://youtu.be/izQB2-Kmiic?t=4
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-plays-golf-pga-pro-testament-about-physical-mental-health
Call him Donald Ike, don't call him David Icke