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I felt like I was reading a parody of The Shock Doctrine, one with all facts and evidence carefully removed, and coming to cartoonishly broad conclusions I would never support.
The world does not need to be perfectly utopian to see progress. Some portion of our actions, such as war, are destructive. A bunch of what we produce is crap. Maybe nearly half of what we do. But if we create only 1 percent or 2 percent (or even one-tenth of 1 percent) more positive stuff than we destroy, then we have progress. This differential could be so small as to be almost imperceptible, and this may be why progress is not universally acknowledged. When measured against the large-scale imperfections of our society, 1 percent better seems trivial.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
Applicative reason reduces critical thinking and creative exploration to profit maximization, problem solving, and vocational training—and then we worsen those reductions in demanding topical, transparent art.
Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism
Anna Kornbluh
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