Wednesday, December 15, 2010

I think Postman is a little crazy

I didn't quite see this at first, but after re-reading pages 50-55, I think Postman is a little insane. He feels quite strongly about the topic of Technopoly, and he makes these claims about books written in 1911 as being the "scaffolding" of our modern Technopoly in America. He continually makes references to A brave new world as somehow Huxley wasn't writing about fiction, he rather had insane foresight and saw the world he was writing about come to pass many years down the road. Postman essentially says that we're living in the society from A Brave New World.

-On page 52-53 he discusses how "all of these have been written about extensively in many contexts and are well known" (53) are the four reasons why technopoly has taken hold in America. This seems to me to mean that hes sort of saying "here are my reasons, they're well known, therefore my argument is infallible. And how can you stupid people not see what is right in front of you? How could no one see how these four pillars of Technopoly shaped and molded the people and nation to become a technopoly?" I'm getting weird Terminater-esque vibes, meaning how Sarah Conner is so sure that Skynet is gonna come and fuck everything up but no one believes her. This dude is saying pretty much the same thing, but the only difference is that Skynet hasn't become self aware yet while we've missed that opportunity to not become a Technopoly, its already happened and we did nothing to stop it, in fact we maybe even embraced it! Personally I don't see anything wrong with living in a technopoly, I apparently, according to Postman, was born into the technopolic world, and if i truly was, how could i know anything besides existing in this technopolic world? I can't. Therefore I have no problem with living in such a world.

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