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Generation Numb: How Losing My Phone Exposed Me to the Pain of My Peers
This terrible void of which everyone stays pleasantly unobservant is the unofficial sickness of Gen Z. By Ben Scheer Source: ScheerPost I hadn’t planned to give up my smartphone. After all, I was starting my sophomore year of college and … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, education, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Alienation, Anxiety, Awareness, Consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Distraction, Dystopia, Education, Internet, media media literacy, Mindfulness, Philosophy, psychology, Smartphones, Social Media, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology
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What happened to individual empowerment in the internet age?
By Kurt Cobb Source: Resilience Apple Computer’s 1984 Superbowl commercial—one of the most iconic television commercials ever made—announced two things: the introduction of the Macintosh computer and that this computer could in some fashion allow each of us to escape … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Health, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged addiction, Attention, Consumerism, corporate media, culture, Dystopia, Internet, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, psychology, Smartphones, social control, Social Media, society, Sociology, Surveillance Society, Technocracy, technology
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Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us
By Henry Cowles Source: Aeon Sales of George Orwell’s utopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early 2017, the idea of ‘alternative facts’ called to mind Winston Smith, the book’s protagonist and, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, internet freedom, media, police state, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged 1984, Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, George Orwell, police state, Sarah Igo, Smartphones, Social Media, Sociology, Sophia Rosenfeld, surveillance state, technology, Telescreens, TV
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The Misguided ‘Vault 7’ Whodunit
By Jesselyn Radack Source: Expose Facts It is the leakiest of times in the Executive Branch. Last week, Wikileaks published a massive and, by all accounts genuine, trove of documents revealing that the CIA has been stockpiling, and lost control … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Hackers, History, media, news, NSA, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, Whistleblowers
Tagged Apple, Chelsea Manning, CIA, Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Espionage Act, Google, hacking, John Kiriakou, Julian Assange, Michael V. Haden, NSA, Samsung, Smartphones, surveillance state, Thomas Drake, Vault 7, whisteblowers, WikiLeaks
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Embedded beings: how we blended our minds with our devices
By Saskia K Nagel & Peter B Reiner (aeon) Like life itself, technologies evolve. So it is that the telephone became the smartphone, that near-at-hand portal to the information superhighway. We have held these powerful devices in the palms of … Continue reading
Google’s lemmings: Pokémon go where Silicon Valley says
An analysis of Ingress and Pokémon Go reveals important truths about corporate control and the ability of our mobile phones to organize our desires. By Alfie Brown Source: ROAR Magazine his article has a clickbaity title but a sobering and … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, Dystopia, Google, Ingress, Jacques Lacan, Niantic Inc., Philosophy, Pokeman, Pokeman Go, psychology, Smartphones, technology, Video Games
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SMARTPHONES, SOCIAL MEDIA AND SLEEP: THE INVISIBLE DANGERS OF OUR 24/7 CULTURE
By Martijn Schirp Source: High Existence If there is one book to read about our addictions to work, phones, consumption, and the current state of capitalism, it’s 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary, a professor of … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, capitalism, Consciousness, culture, Economics, Harm Reduction, Philosophy, sleep, Smartphones, Social Media, society, technology
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