Thursday, May 01, 2003
�The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.�
- Saul Alinsky (1909 � 1972), American political activist: prologue to �Rules for Radicals�, 1971.
�We�ve now invented the ultimate tool for keeping the sads busy: the internet. But behind all the techno-babble about cyberspace and hyper-text and virtual worlds, behind all the promises of total immersion in a parallel universe there�s a boring reality: a bunch of screeching modems, lost jobs and boring computer-nerds getting all excited over a glorified telephone exchange. I�m sick of the spurious claims devotees make for the internet, and I�m particularly sick of the internerds.�
- Janet Street-Porter (b. 1946), British broadcaster and programme-maker: �Without Walls: J�Accuse � Technonerds�, March 19, 1996.
�Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.�
- Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1394), Belgian Situationist philosopher: �The Revolution of Everyday Life�, 1967, tr. 1983.
�More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.�
- Albert Camus (1913 � 1960), French-Algerian philosopher and author: �State Terrorism and Rational Terror� in �The Rebel�, 1951, tr. 1953.
- Saul Alinsky (1909 � 1972), American political activist: prologue to �Rules for Radicals�, 1971.
�We�ve now invented the ultimate tool for keeping the sads busy: the internet. But behind all the techno-babble about cyberspace and hyper-text and virtual worlds, behind all the promises of total immersion in a parallel universe there�s a boring reality: a bunch of screeching modems, lost jobs and boring computer-nerds getting all excited over a glorified telephone exchange. I�m sick of the spurious claims devotees make for the internet, and I�m particularly sick of the internerds.�
- Janet Street-Porter (b. 1946), British broadcaster and programme-maker: �Without Walls: J�Accuse � Technonerds�, March 19, 1996.
�Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.�
- Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1394), Belgian Situationist philosopher: �The Revolution of Everyday Life�, 1967, tr. 1983.
�More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.�
- Albert Camus (1913 � 1960), French-Algerian philosopher and author: �State Terrorism and Rational Terror� in �The Rebel�, 1951, tr. 1953.
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