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March 21, 2013

Repost… ILLUSTRATED for those who need it: Herbert Marcuse says, in so many words “You’re probably fuck-ed”

A while back I quoted Herbert Marcuse positing:

Marcuse goes on to say:

“In the medium of technology, culture, politics, and the economy merge into an omnipresent system which swallows up or repulses all alternatives. The productivity and growth potential of this system stabilize the society and contain technical progress within the framework of domination. Technological rationality has become political rationality.”

The following images more than amply illustrate the principle of “what the Technocrats need (the ‘capitalist class’… for their personal profit) becomes what YOU (the proletariat) “need”. Because they will arrange it so YOU HAVE NO CHOICE, and they KNOW what they’re doing, and they do NOT give a fuck what YOU want (see the L.A. Street Car system destruction by the automobile companies for another example.)

The Herbert Marcuse Official Home Page has full texts of his works and essays

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March 06, 2013

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Herbert Marcuse says, in so many words “You’re probably fuck-ed”:

“In the medium of technology, culture, politics, and the economy merge into an omnipresent system which swallows up or repulses all alternatives. The productivity and growth potential of this system stabilize the society and contain technical progress within the framework of domination. Technological rationality has become political rationality.”

The Herbert Marcuse Official Home Page has full texts of his works and essays

Tags: Herbert Marcuse Marxism Technology Technocracy Deep Green Resistance DGR Sociology Anthropology Political Science

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November 30, 2012

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Technocracy in action... BP Deepwater/Horizon oil spill “clean up” 52 times more toxic than spill itself

Georgia Institute of Technology

If the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deep Water Horizon spill was a ecological disaster, the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean it up apparently made it even worse – 52-times more toxic. That’s according to new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico.

The study found that mixing the dispersant with oil increased toxicity of the mixture up to 52-fold over the oil alone. In toxicity tests in the lab, the mixture’s effects increased mortality of rotifers, a microscopic grazing animal at the base of the Gulf’s food web. The findings are published online by the journal Environmental Pollution and will appear in the February 2013 print edition… [More]

Tags: EcoDefense Technocracy Deep Water Horizon British Petroleum BP Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico Food Chain environmental disaster Ecology

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April 22, 2012

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As I was typing to someone recently:

Here’s a prediction… In the long run Apple and everyone else will abandon personal computers for consumer type devices such as ‘pads’ etc. It makes it easy for them to sell you, in the form of allowing exotic flash cookies and other codings, to advertisers.

It will also make it much easier for them to control the information you find on the internet.

As seen here… SOMEONE is spending money on graphic developments for Mobile devices.

8bitfuture:

Mobile graphics beginning to outperform consoles.

With no new Xbox or Playstation consoles having been released fur such a long time, it’s could be next year before smartphones are able to match their graphics capabilities, according to NVIDIA’s Mike Rayfield.

Several years ago, a PC meant a display that measured 11 inches or more diagonally, a physical keyboard and possibly a network connection. With the advent of mobile devices and smartphones, the idea of a PC has largely been redefined. It is now considered to be anything with a display of at least four inches, with a touchscreen that supplements (or replaces) a physical keyboard and is always connected and “on.”