Amusing Ourselves To Death Book

[Latanya Hariri]

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This is perhaps one of the most striking passages I have read for a while. It describes the modern world with startling accuracy. In our fear of an increasingly authoritarian rule, we have allowed a far more dangerous vision to come true: heedlessness

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What is mindfulness? I believe it is the opposite of heedlessness. Here is a fantastic and jarring post about what a society of heedlessness cultivates. Are we amusing ourselves to death?

You should read Adorno abouth the Cultural Industry, Adorno is saying that the Cultural Industry (Hollywood, Entertainment and so on) is a much more efficient way to controll people than the totalitarianism (like fascism or stalinism) ever was.

make it look nice on the front end, keep you busy, distracted and fully entertained, but at the same time there is a fence and a play ground you should play within, and if you try to jump out, you will get into the orwell world.

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