Category: Control
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The uncanny valley of Internet advertising: Why do creepy targeted ads follow me everywhere I go on the Web? – Slate Magazine
If you ask an Internet ad guy to defend himself—to explain why you, dear Web surfer, should feel comfortable letting him serve you ads based on everything you do online—you’ll likely hear two arguments. First, he’ll tell you that targeted ads are simply the cost of doing business on the…
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The issues with Ayn Rand…
Yesterday, I posted a lecture by David Harvey on Karl Marx Das Kapital. I did this because the majority of people have not even read Marx’s main work and do not really get what he is talking about. On the other hand, Ayn Rand has been read by many Americans…
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Are the Boomers Screwing the Millennials? | Rightly Understood | Big Think
Nice piece very much in line with many things I have been saying over the last two years. It is bleak, certainly bleaker than the way generational expert Neil Howe sees things turning out. Thanks to my friend Heather Davis for pointing this post out to me. Maybe it’s more…
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Boomerang Kids Have Some Rules For Mom And Dad
The second wave of Gen-X, the overlap Gen-Y, and the first wave of Millenials find themselves in the same ship of fools set adrift by Boomers & first-wave Gen-Xers for whom the “system” worked. This is not something that the older folks planned outright. If it was about planning outright,…
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Wealth doesn’t trickle down – it just floods offshore
Often, when I hear folks saying that the rich and super rich are job creators, I ask myself: Exaclty to how much of world economics do you actually pay heed? If profits are not invested into foreign ventures they are hidden in foreign tax havens. “These estimates reveal a staggering…
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Bankers and the neuroscience of greed | Ian Robertson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
While power in moderate doses can make people smarter, more strategic in their thinking, bolder and less depressed, in too-large doses it can make them egocentric and un-empathic, greedy for rewards – financial, sexual, interpersonal, material – likely to treat others as objects, and with a dulled perception of risk.…
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The Revolt of the Masses & the Politics of the Big Lie
I am reminded, while reading this article, of Jose Ortega y Gasset’s Revolt of the Masses. One thing characterizing “mass humanity”–what I like to call the Ones-at-Large–is the notion that they do not need to be taught, they do not need to learn. An interesting aspect of our current “constant education”…
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Daily chart: Buy me a river | The Economist
The weekly magazine The Economist reports on a new index that attempts to take stock of countries’ total wealth… Daily chart: Buy me a river | The Economist. I shared this with my beloved friend Alex Mosiak. Here is our interchange: Me: What do you think of this? Alex: In general,…
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The Corporate Professor
I highly recommend all of the articles in the current issue of the Hedgehog Review. Here is the first one: Under the Sign of Satan: William Blake in the Corporate University
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Controlling Choice
The constantly modulating networks of choice that leave us always wanting by catching us already adapting within the limits we are offered. https://karljaspers23.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/society-of-control/
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Textimony 20111229
“Revenge is not always sweet… once it is consummated, we feel inferior to our victim.” ~Emile M. Cioran
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Eschewing “Equality” & “Liberty”
I used to be bothered by the fact that I was disturbed when underrepresented folks tried to get better representation. Whether in the the trades, the professions, or the academy, for some reason I found the desire to want equal treatment somehow off-putting. I believe wholeheartedly that everyone should have…
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Singularity & Plurality
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche My friend K. sent along this awesome…
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Discipline & Control
An op/ed piece by David Brooks accidentally (i suppose) lays out the very differences within the distinction DISCIPLINE vs. CONTROL. Brooks musings point out the hierarchical structure of book reading. That there are books which are perennial as well as those a person would read as a guilty pleasure at…
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Society of Control
CLICK HERE TO READ POSTSCRIPT TO THE SOCIETY OF CONTROL BY Giles Deleuze Society is changing. In fact, society is always changing. From generation to generation, the alterations may sometimes seem slight. At other times, the variations may seem quite pronounced, almost severe enough to register as intra-cultural shock to…
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