zerzan vs. the jetsons

in which john zerzan addresses some common technotopian delusions

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As progress and technology transform our way of life and our physical surroundings, they eat away at our language, enfeeble our spirit.

~Marilynn Rashid

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excerpted from a longer talk found at
http://www.jesusradicals.com/conference/video/

recorded by http://layla.miltsov.org/

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special thanks to the infant in the audience for her delightful perspicacity

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[PhoenixArk123]

Source for the image about 2 minutes in?

Keep on uploading :-)

[pennilesscripple]

the map? google "globalization" and click on "images" and it should be there. dagnabbit it's a better version of the one i used...sigh......

let me know if that doesn't help

[kiviaavikko]

Talking about indoctrination into the technology hype, I come from Finland, and oh boy are Finns indoctrinated in that regard!! It's incredible, I think it has even reached the stage where individuals critical of technology are looked askance as though they were psychologically disturbed. I think this country is a perfect example of what Zerzan refers to as the inflexibility of technological mass culture: you will adapt to the system, or else...

[pennilesscripple]

yes i have the same experience

even a slight critique of technology raises eyebrows and brings up an energy that is difficult to describe, but it's like a fear, a sense that you are a dangerous person saying dangerous things

the general brainwashing is that everything is much better now than it ever has been due to technology--in spite of loads of evidence to the contrary

i just read about a robot that they've developed that teaches people to like robots.....

[BobForehead]

OMG such brillig use of thur sprint addz i almost (almost) hesitated to gank this vid. Zerzan is win, you rock alwayz ever harder in a velvetish way, happy year of thur Tiger, i'm out.

[pennilesscripple]

thanks for noticing, mr. forehead. i think i felt the satisfyingly slithy toves of revenge for the first time in my life. nice to seeya.

[pennilesscripple]

yes

they are

[AlaricxMalgraith]

Zerzan is anti, anti-human. That's why he left the Marxist scene when it was dominated by Althusserian economic determinists.

[AlaricxMalgraith]

Says the guy who quotes a man who believed in a metaphysical force that manifested orgasms and made leaves green and the sky blue and was a major influence on hippie pothead losers.

[phuq1deology]

You also confuse truth with fact, when they have very little to do with each other.