Quote for 2009-11-23
ri...@math.missouri.edu
"The media don't have to endorse the 'system' in any overt way or
say anything particularly nice about it at all. Conversely, we
don't have to like or believe anything the media may say - so long
as we don't have access continuously and pervasively to models
which describe *in detail* a completely different kind of life. The
only thing that's not permitted is the possibility of negating this
social system by describing another one so completely that we could
vividly imagine what life would be like in it, hence to desire it
and then, perhaps, to demand it."
-- Gene Youngblood
[Source: Gene Youngblood, "The Mass Media and the Future of Desire",
CoEvolution Quarterly, Winter 1977/78, pp. 7-16; page 12.]
From: Brad Pierce <pie...@CS.UCLA.EDU>
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