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What future is being manufactured today? | |
2019.12.22 13:53:51 CET | |
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I'm watching the Century of the Self [0] documentary which was | |
recommended by someone (sorry whoever you are, I can't recall). | |
It does an amazing job of deconstructing and showing the origins of | |
many things taken for granted in many societies today. One of the | |
ideas which were intentionally developed and burned into the | |
Zeitgeist is the notion that democracy can only exist in a capitalist | |
society. That these two things can only exist together, democracy and | |
capitalism. I don't think one needs to demonstrate how this idea is a | |
basic premise these days. | |
But I don't want to talk about this idea in itself, but actually | |
about how these basic premises and truths can be manufactured and | |
intentionally built by actors who wish to shape society. And more | |
specifically ask what ideas are being constructed as basic truths | |
today. | |
Computers are necessarily the way forward? | |
AI can solve problems better than non-artificial intelligence? | |
Online and connected are better than offline and disconnected? | |
Networks value more than individual nodes? | |
Commoditized data? | |
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432232/ |