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Ray Bradbury's Nightmare Vision
Learning recently that Ray Bradbury had just died at 91, I started looking through my bookshelves for an old copy of Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury's great dystopian novel warning of a future authoritarian state in which books were burned as part of authorities' determination to wipe out the population's capacity for critical thought. Published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 has been read by millions.
The title came from the temperature at which Bradbury's imagined nightmare state determined that books burst into flames. The novel's protagonist was a "fireman" named Guy Montag. Montag was part of a team sent around to destroy stashes of books discovered in people's homes and elsewhere.
Alongside sheer repression, the nightmare state portrayed in Fahrenheit 451 relied on numerous forms of "soft power." It dispensed drugs designed (as in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World) to keep the people focused on personal comfort and pleasure. (The masses were supposed to be gratefully unburdened by concern over difficult problems of policy and politics – matters better left to higher authorities.) Money was doled out to obedient, hard-working subjects through automated bank machines that kept users up-to-date on the state of their savings.
The state delivered an Orwellian and Huxlean mix of propaganda and childish entertainment culture into the brains of the people via "thimble" and "seashell radios" attached to peoples' ears. A more powerful medium for this noxious blend came with large television screens that took up entire walls in peoples' homes. The "wallscreens" blared constantly, keeping subjects in a constant state of externalized diversion and distraction.
Wallscreen soap operas included a curious feature. The characters would occasionally stop their dialogues and look out at the viewer to ask him or her, by name, what they thought and/or felt about the drama being broadcast. The homebound viewer thereby felt included in the show's "family," speaking to his or her "friends" through the screen wall.
Like many subjects, Montag's anxious, heavily drugged wife rarely ventured into the stark, rigidly controlled world outside her doors. She pestered Montag to work harder so they could purchase an additional wallscreen. That way she could thereby become more intimately involved in her "family."
At some point in the novel, Montag rebelled against his terrible duties. Unsuccessful in its effort to destroy him live on telescreen, the state broadcast its hunt and murder of another "deviant." The wallscreen-obsessed populace was fed live images of the chase and kill from the government helicopter that carried out the execution. Montag ended up walking the rails with the last remaining literate and free-thinking civilians – a bedraggled band of hobo-intellectuals who had memorized key books in the western canon.
Distracted Subjects in the New Electronic Garrison State
Thinking back to this remarkable novel (assigned to me in a suburban junior high school), I am struck by how strongly it resonates with numerous chilling aspects of contemporary American life. Yes, I know, books are readily available at Barnes & Noble, amazon.com and the last remaining independent bookstores. The streets and sidewalks of our cities are often full of hustle and bustle and occasionally even host mass protests. Dissenters are not generally hunted down and killed on live television.
Still, I have flashed back to Fahrenheit 451 more than once in recent years and decades. I have done so while sitting mesmerized by vicious football and hockey collisions and police chases and other police and military actions beamed from government and media helicopters – sometimes in real time (as with the OJ Simpson chase, the Los Angeles riot/rebellion years before, and the prolonged tug of war between Chicago police and anarchist protestors last month) – to my own private telescreen (television) or to mounted telescreens looming above me and other captivated souls at a restaurant, bar, airport or gym.
Bradbury's tiny ear radios bear a striking resemblance to today's earbuds and Bluetooth headsets. I recently noticed a series of individuals who seemed oblivious to the world around them carrying on private conversations as they walked (hands-free) past ATMs (predicted by Bradbury) and homeless beggars in Chicago's Loop (where a breathtaking concentration of high-tech militarized local, state, federal and private police recently turned the city's downtown into an occupied zone to prevent protestors from interfering with the meetings of the global killing machine called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization). More people were talking to headsets behind the wheels of gleaming automobiles that swept across an adjacent 8-lane street at lethal speeds. Waiting impatiently at red lights, ready to make engines roar, the cars' occupants seemed unaware of the urban community around them. They stared vacantly at the changing scene beyond glaring windshields that struck me as curiously akin to television screens.
Millions of Americans are incarcerated daily in a gigantic prison-industrial complex where books are scarce and large mounted televisions supplement batons, chemical agents, sniper rifles, and closed-circuit television-monitoring as an effective, cost-reducing part of the pacification apparatus. Official U.S. politics and policy march in cold defiance of irrelevant majority public opinion and in chilling accord with the imperatives and priorities of the nation's unelected and interrelated dictatorships of money, empire, eco-cide and "national security." In the name of democracy, the American corporate, military, and police state cows and rolls over popular opposition and various officially designated enemies at home and abroad with a vast, many-sided arsenal that includes Stealth Bombers, Black Hawk and Apache helicopters, Predator drones, Tomahawk missiles, police informants, FBI infiltrators, trumped-up terrorism charges, Pentagon Internet terrorists, pepper spray, tasers, sonic cannons, sniper units, laser-guided bombs, ubiquitous electronic surveillance, cell-phone monitoring, cell-phone tower dumps. obedient universities, global wars on/of terror and drugs, racial divide-and-conquer, planted news items, power-worshiping pundits, Web shadowing, hidden cameras, militarized police, criminal marking, SWAT teams, border patrols, private security firms, finger-print monitoring, DNA databases, gated communities, armed watch captains, special operations forces, digital alarm systems, police dogs, police horses, narcotic squads, red squads, bomb squads, bomb scares, disappeared dissidents, counter-terrorism centers, facial recognition software, electronic monitoring bracelets, ubiquitous felony marking, multiple homeland security bureaucracies, strip searches, body scans, kill lists, agents provocateurs, juvenile detention facilities, warrantless wiretaps, torture manuals, paramilitaries, secret mass graves, targeted hospitals (as in the U.S. assault on Fallujah), targeted media outlets (as in the U.S./NATO bombing of Serbian national television), the School of the Americas, black ops, 850,000 Americans granted "Top Security" clearance, secret prisons, extra-judicial terror squads, military tribunals, targeted assassinations, domestic eavesdropping, overseas jails, an empire of more than 1000 military installations across more than 100 nations, a Pentagon budget accounting for nearly half the world's military spending, Green Zones, counter-insurgency campaigns, militarized super-embassies, coercive interrogations, extraordinary renditions, torture by proxy, covert detention centers, protestor "extractions," crowd "kettling," coup d'etats, indefinite detentions, preventive detention, pre-emptive war, pre-emptive raids, dictatorial client states, arms export, arms production, unconstitutional search and seizure, segregation cells, water-boarding, Supermax prisons, union-busting, stolen overtime, stop-and-frisk practices, anti-gang ordinances, pretext traffic stops, electric shocks, punitive firings, denial of health care, mass arrest, mass imprisonment (the American "land of liberty' is the world leader by far), endemic foreclosure, crippling debt, endless propaganda, constant advertising, corporate media, sensationalized news, the slashing of social benefits, public relations, crushing overwork, fractured families, devastated pensions, information over-load, standardized testing, regimented curriculum, militarized high schools, militarized law enforcement, the mass distribution of mood-altering psychotropic drugs (dangerously over-prescribed), sham and highly personalized, mass-marketed elections that subordinate meaningful policy debate to the manipulative logic of product advertising, plutocratic control of law and politics, and a sensationalist Orwellian/Huxlean mass media that denies the populace the honest and relevant information and inspired culture meaningful democracy requires.
Serious information is reserved for ideologically safe elites, who have to receive some significantly accurate knowledge to perform their tasks of system management. For the unworthy rabble beneath the owning and coordinator classes, for the rest of us (say, the 80 percent), it's all about spin, spectacle, display, stimulation, scandal, tittle-tattle, and amusement. Political news for the multitude is riddled with fantastic tales (e.g. Saddam's "weapons of mass destruction" and involvement in 9/11, the "left-leaning Obama administration and Democratic Party," the "grassroots Tea Party," U.S. support for freedom, democracy and humanitarian ideals abroad, the giant and poor-coddling American "welfare state," "leftist U.S. universities," and meaningful democratic elections at home) that are interminably messaged across the vast communications terrain. The grand corporate media complex's mission is clear: the "bewildered herd" is to be kept deluded, divided, diverted, distracted, drugged, depressed, and de-mobilized so that real and wise men of power can conduct the nation's affairs with a minimum of "dysfunctional" popular disturbance and dissent. Serious protest is rendered invisible (thrown down Orwell's "memory hole" the instant it happens) or treated with authoritarian disdain when it is too big to completely ignore.
Along the way, the media sells, sells, and sells, so that the last 2 minutes of a championship sporting event must take 20 minutes to maximize the advertising take. Every pitching change or time out is another opportunity to hawk on air. Candidates are sold like toothpaste on radio and television on a scale that has turned campaign advertising into a significant industrial sector (what Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols call "the money and media elections complex") in its own right. There's an endless electronic procession of juvenile product, corporate, and candidate jingles, logos, images, slogans, brands ("Hope" is a recurrent favorite), symbols, and spokespersons.
Sensationalized Telescreens, Kardashianized Twitter Tattle
The readers, researchers and writers of serious books, chapters, speeches, essays and studies that tell the truth about dire threats to justice, freedom, popular governance, security, and the natural environment are relegated to the margins in a Kardashianized mass culture swamped by a stupefying surplus of information, titillation, gossip, and trivia. "Oh I saw that Yahoo link about the vanishing Arctic ice cap, but did you see the one about Jennifer Anniston's new boyfriend and the one about that little schnauzer dog that ice skates? How about the one about those chimpanzees that ripped off that zookeeper's testicle? OMG!" Checking out at the grocery story yesterday, I passed a special display of the news and commentary the masters think we need most in these urgent times: an exclusive, in-depth report on "Why Katie [Holmes] has left Tom [Cruise]" (9t has something to do with Scientology). So what if the consensus finding of increasingly terrified Earth scientists (detailed in a large number of readable volumes) is that humanity faces an imminent threat of extinction due to the wasteful use of natural resources? Who has the time or energy to focus on that depressing problem? The books, reports and essays on this and other grave perils are not burned but torching is not required.
When it comes to real news, the deep and detailed story of how and why the dominant elite-serving state-capitalist institutions and policies create ecological collapse, savage inequality, endless war, and mass poverty cannot compete with the latest juicy celebrity tidbit. That story can hardly match the most recent "shock and awe" film footage and excited reporting (played over and over again on 24-hour cable news stations and online) of various tragedies, and atrocities (wealthy homes ablaze in Colorado Springs, trailer parks blown to bits in Tennessee, people stuck on their roofs in New Orleans, nuclear meltdowns in Japan, the opening assault on Baghdad, mass shootings of protestors in Middle Eastern cities, a man standing in front of a tank in China, a police beating and a riot in Los Angeles, a car chase of a celebrity murder in Los Angeles, a dictator pulled out of a drain pipe in Libya, jetliners flying into the World Trade Center, the Deepwater Horizon blowout, etc.) that result from those oppressive structures and policies.
True, our ubiquitous glowing telescreens (I counted 12 wall-mounted flat-screen televisions, all locked on to CNN and positioned ten feet high, in the section of the small Midwestern airport where I began this essay) do not interrupt their dramas to ask us by name for our thoughts and feelings. Still, highly attractive telescreen newsreaders do occasionally encourage us to send them our opinions via e-mail and to vote on political and other matters online or by text message. Televised national talent contests get us to vote by cell phone in competitions that evoke mass personal identifications with individual contenders. Daytime talk shows invite us to share our innermost dilemmas with the likes of Montel, Maury, Oprah, Judge Alex, and Dr. Phil. Yahoo News and other Internet news services encourage us to share our thoughts and feelings (no matter how ill-informed and toxic) in comments sections attached to news and culture items it endlessly posts online. Skype permits us to literally talk back to the screen – well, to each other, through our computer screens.
Meanwhile, screen media have knocked print media to its knees and turned many of the surviving newspapers into hopelessly brief, advertisement-laden versions of sound-bite TV News. Twitter caps communications at 140 characters.
Top public office-holders and politicians have become soap opera characters and entertainers in their own right. Serious presidential candidates appear on the Tonight Shows, Saturday Night Live, and other television venues as a matter of campaign necessity. Their personal lives and foibles often serve as fodder for endless speculation, fascination, and scandal. A population that was told little about President Bill Clinton's deep policy service to corporate and financial masters was kept riveted on Monica Lewinsky's salacious servicing of Clinton and the lies he told about "that woman." A generation of Americans was conned into thinking that they'd learned something meaningful about their nation's politics because of startling media revelations about Clinton's philandering (actually quite mild compared to the epic sexual adventurism of the 1960s Kennedy brothers, who carried on in a time when politicians' sex lives were off-limits for the media). The telescreen and the Internet create a deadly, false and superficial sense of knowing on the part of people who know little that really matters.
Facenbook 451
And then of course there is the great Internet hegemon Facebook, used by half the U.S. population. The "social network" is more than just another media form that promises us virtual community and connection in a soulless, alienated, authoritarian society. With more than 100 million users, including untold hundreds of thousands who spend very significant portions of their waking life on the "free" service, the digital Leviathan Facebook is a cyber nation of its own.
It's a very creepy nation, to say the least. Facebook asks "What's on your mind? What do you think? How do you feel? What's new in your life? What do you want to say? What is your history? Who are you? What do you like and want? Would you like to show us your pictures? Your beliefs? Values? Would you like to search for people, places, and things? Where to do you want to go today?" The answers are gathered and data-mined by and for a host of corporate and governmental entities with less-than-benevolent agendas – a vast network of hidden Facebook predators and snoopers personal, political, corporate, and commercial. An unseen army of sociopaths and other varieties of psychotic spend untold hours cruising Facebook and other online "communities" for people to "meet," "friend," "know," exploit, and manipulate. Many lost cyber-fried souls create false (often multiple) Web personalities, pretending to be something online they wish they were in real life.
Narcissism is richly fed and nurtured by Facebook, which offers a fresh and colorful way to brand oneself over and over again. Those who accept the brand become part of your "friend" list. Those who don't can be "de-friended" and "blocked" – cyber-cleansed. Among those who stay, conversations on Facebook or Skype (the latter is set up for video communication) take place through a digital wall that seems more than mildly Bradburyan. For some, Facebook offers a stage for self-display that crosses over into a type of exhibitionism. Participants become actors in their own bizarre dramas, played out for and often including others among their bulging "friends" list ("I'm at 4,000 and climbing…people just seem to love me").
Along the way, bullying, shaming, hearsay, rumor-mongering, preening and numerous other noxious and destructive forms of conduct are given a powerful new platform. An ever-growing number of people have been driven to suicide by gossip, character assassination and other forms of digital battering on Facebook and lesser cousins that have joined the hegemon in dangerously breaching the boundary between private and public.. The psychological case files of the real nation are bulging with stories of how Facebook Nation and other online semi-states have plugged into and escalated the population's struggle with such pre-existing mental health conditions as narcissistic personality disorder, bipolar depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, delusional psychosis, erotomania, schizophrenia, and attention-deficit disorder.
Among other things, Facebook and its imitators and relatives encourage mindless and addictive, fake-rebellious flight from lived reality – a fantasy of borderless breakout that ultimately deepens pain and anxiety in real experience. It's all about diversion, instant gratification, denial of the need for the concentrated focus and plain hard work that goes into such activities as the writing and reading of serious books, the planning and planting of community gardens, and the making of meaningful social movements. It's about the illusion of escape from the present moment. It's a bold assault on basic mindfulness and a great weapon in the top-down campaign to induce mass dissociation from harsh realities and real possibilities.
The loneliness and disruption that is created and worsened by continually focusing on glowing screens next to your face rather than the real life around you – a recurrent Bradbury theme – is a contributing factor in the contemporary American depression and anxiety epidemics. The incessantly flashing online world deepens mass dependence on the soul-deadening "anti-depressive" and anti-anxiety concoctions Big Pharma's expert scientists and marketers have fashioned to intensify the corporate state's calibration of hearts and minds.
Many Facebook "participants" pretend to be activists (some even call themselves "Facebook activists" – an oxymoron of the highest order) by creating a plethora of online "advocacy" groups that purport to hold real-life relevance in connection with various causes.
The "Facebook community" and "family" can be very anti-book, anti-community, and anti-family. Users are encouraged and enabled to "like" or "dislike" a news or cultural Web-link that flashes across their "wall" (yes, their "wall"!) since it has been posted by some other cyber-entity (usually a Facebook "friend" they've' never actually met in person) who decided it was "on their mind." "Like" messages often appear instantly, well before anyone could possibly have read the item in question. So much for serious intellectual and effort of the sort that goes into such "elitist" work as the writing and reading of books that matter. So much for the careful construction and appreciation of reasoned arguments attentive to complexity, change, pattern, and nuance. Anyone can be an instant expert and qualified commentator on Facebook and on the web more generally, where everyone's opinion matters, no matter how reactive and superficial. Dedicated Facebookers and Tweeters are trained to develop dogmatic, mediocre, and steel-trap minds that fixate around stark and snap judgments on frozen facts. This new sort of dullardry is a great menace to democratic prospects.
No Escape
And so much for the effort involved in the creation or re-creation of genuine, non-mediated connection with actual people in the real families and communities one inhabits. Facebook and its cousins and the web more broadly say that it's easier to beam yourself out, Scotty – to create an online self and escape into the high-speed and global virtual community located two or three clicks away on your own personal telescreen. This great illusion of instantaneous space and time travel, irresistible for many, has long resonated with the visions (utopian and dystopian) of science fictions writers.
The seductive fake community of "the social network" serves the national and global elite in various ways. "Social media's" top owners and managers rake in millions from corporations who crave Facebook's awesome marketing power. Looking for reasons and ways to fire, demote, arrest, convict, torture, kill, deport, hound, harass, shame, and/or collect money (or deny loans and jobs), a vast range of authorities (employers, lenders, debt-collectors, bounty hunters, probation officers, corporate attorneys, cops, the FBI, the CIA, the Assad regime, the Putin regime, the Saudi Arabian and Honduran secret police, etc.) and others (assorted online sociopaths and stalkers, etc.) surf the ocean of personal and political information that has been made so readily (and foolishly) available on Facebook and other rich intelligence targets across the Internet ghetto.
The "community's" owners become fantastically wealthy while a growing number of humans morph into a stunted new sub-species that "lives," "likes," "loves," "thinks," argues, "reads," writes/texts, hates, rages, "mates," blathers, yaks, socializes, networks, hunts, hurts, kills, and dies in the soulless ether of cyber-space. These distracted, diverted, degraded and de-evolved Web-people pose no threat to the existing order, to say the least. Caught like flies in a cyberspace spider-web, they are trapped in a world wide wallscreen they never made. Their hearts, minds, and bodies are downgraded in ways that do not bode well for a decent future. A wall is a wall.
Scary Streets and Glowing Screens
Meanwhile, contemporary youth play virtual video, Wii and online games (many quite shockingly violent and militaristic) around glimmering telescreens in isolated homes. They have been historically removed from the real-life neighborhoods, parks, streets, sidewalks, yards, allies, ponds, and fields where children once played stickball, baseball, roller hockey, hide-and-seek, football, basketball, capture-the-flag, hopscotch, 500, and more (generally without adult supervision). The private screen attachment (often enough addiction) helps feed an epidemic of childhood obesity that literally embodies the proto-totalitarian softening up of the populace.
But then, the streets of the cities and the sprawling suburban and ex-urban society are not safe for children. They are ruled by racing trucks and cars whose harried pilots dash around distracted by talking GPS screens, cell phones, and radios blaring poison from proto-fascistic shock jocks and political hate-talkers. The bloodshed promoted by socio-pathological video games (one in current circulation dares young participants to go out and knock someone unconscious with a single punch) and movies make the world outdoors seem understandably menacing to parents and children alike. (Living and getting around by bicycle in a university town, I myself have learned that the greatest threat to life and limb is students mindlessly checking their I-phones while driving)
Walking nights around the local streets and sidewalks of Middle America, I am often struck by the curious complementary relationship that exists between the emptiness of the public byways, broken by the occasional fleeting swoosh of headlights and tires, and the ubiquitous glow of telescreens in the living rooms of nearly every home I pass. I am reminded of Bradbury's short story "The Pedestrian," in which a man was arrested for refusing to watch television or drive a car.
Occasionally on the interstate in the dark of evening I see a brightly colored telescreen gleaming down at the backseat of a speeding, eco-cidal SUV. This is often parents' way of pacifying restless children during a long drive across the ex-urban landscape. No need to sing songs or play mind-enhancing word games with your developing offspring as you zoom past chemically polluted, drought-plagued corn and soybean fields. Bradbury would be impressed.
Many young Americans have now been plugged into telescreens since infancy (Huxley would be impressed). Some of them will perhaps make good soldiers in the hidden "homeland" bunkers of the permanent global war on terror, where operatives sit before telescreens to demolish distant Muslim villages with the click of a mouse.
Stepping one cold evening last year into a university library, I noticed that few of the students there were reading actual books. Most of them were online and a good third appeared to be on Facebook. I recalled from my teaching days how difficult it had become to assign even a single book in a college history course (to require reading more than one volume was to court rebellion). I also recalled the large number of students who reported dependence on various anti-depression and anti-anxiety medications (often from remarkably young ages) as they struggled to juggle ever more dumbed-down assignments with poorly paid jobs, daily commutes, and untold hours spent staring numbly at televisions and the Internet.
Call me a techno-phobic reifying Luddite if you wish (it's incorrect: I regularly publish on the Internet, manage a Website bearing my own name, and check Facebook messages four times a week and my e-mail daily and I am aware of the progressive uses left activists have made of Internet communication modes, including Facebook), but we are not as far as many of us might like to think from the nightmarish vision laid out in Fahrenheit 451. Much the same can be said for other past dystopian novels, including Huxley's Brave New World, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four (1948), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano [1952] (set in a corporate society where automation has eliminated most blue-collar jobs), and Robert Brunner's The Sheep Look Up [1972] (prophetic in its imagining of ecological collapse). Bradbury's dystopia seems distinctive, however, in its appreciation of how authorities would rule through the dissemination and manipulation of private, talking, and fake-social telescreens – a warning that seems all too hauntingly relevant in the age of the high-definition flat-screen television, the I-phone, the personal computer, the World Wide Web, and what I only half jokingly call Facenbook 451.
Throw in his predictions of automobile-ization, earphones, ATMs, de-valued books and print, mass drugging, sensationalized news, tittle-tattle culture and more, and it seems that Ray Bradbuy imagined the future with no small measure of darkly prophetic prescience. His warnings were never about technology per se and they are closer to contemporary reality than many like to admit.
Paul Street (www.paulstreet.org) is the author of numerous print books, including Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm, 2004), Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Routledge, 2005), Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis (Rowman&Littlefield, 2007), The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Paradigm, 2010), and (co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio) Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics (Paradigm, 2011). Street can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Having seen your comment, I agree wholeheatedly. I remember thinking something similar when I read the article first time. System Of A Down got pretty close with Prison Song a few years back. Lyrics and recording links below (don't have the volume too high!) Best wishes John Andrews
On Gossip, Social Media, Culture, and RealityBy Smith, Dave at Jul 11, 2012 14:20 PM |
How did I learn about this essay? Well, it popped up in my email on my iPhone and my girlfriend (a social work graduate student) and myself had a quick discussion about it over breakfasst. (Imagine! Technology sparking human dialogue.....) Interestingly enough, my girlfriend and I met via Facebook. We wondered if we would be together at all had it not been for this medium. We think not. (Thank you, FB -- we're happy and in love.) This past winter we attend a 'FB' wedding and know of two others who met through some form of online media -- one (not engaged) in a Yahoo group and another through an online discussion group on their shared musical interests. My mother and I frequently use Skype to talk with my brother who is living abroad. We were able -- thanks to Skype -- to see his apartment, his new dog and meet his new partner. When my girlfriend and I have long work days and are apart we text throughout the day and this helps us stay connected and in-touch when we otherwise would not be able to be together. When we finally do arrive home after a long day we already know bits and pieces of each other's day and it's nice. Paul, you seem to dramatically overlook that the 'monitors' and bluetoothing and FB-ing is where our loved ones 'reside' when we can't be with them. How many reunions of long lost friends and family, job leads, photo sharing, and connection have joyfully enhanced and enriched the lives of so many? Where is that in your essay? It is notably absent.
Interestingly enough, my gf was just discussing the changing role of social media in society in her class and its impact. No big surprise here, but quite simply if a person is healthy, secure, connected with friends and family in their 'real' 'in-person' life the use of social media is used in a establish, build, enhance ones life. If one is troubled, vulnerable, emotionally distraught, and in a weakened psychological state to begin with then social media can be yet another tool of destruction. Social media -- like alcohol, money, sex, etc -- is not inheritantly useful or problematic in and of itself, but how it's used. The stable use it properly. The vulnerable can negatively impacted.
In this essay you moralistically place your own self on the high ground as one who does the 'good things' such as reading actual books, riding your bicycle in the fresh air, and walking in your neighborhood (and rail against the evil horrors of various technological devices and suggest your own limited and restrained use of them) and you present these acts as "better' or 'healthier' non-tech-evil trap things to do (biking, walking, reading= healthy, you suggest)-- and yet at the same time this very bleak, dark, eerie, imbalanced, frightening, troubled/troubling essay began in your own mind. How is this reconciled? The argument in your essay would suggest the exact opposite, in fact, that those who lose themselves in a cyber reality would be of a dark and downtrodden nature and those who are healthily involved in 'real life' things -- fresh-air, excercise, more sophisticated intellectual stimulation found in books and not sound bytes -- would be emotionally lighter, happier, clear-headed, balanced, and more grounded in reality. How can a fresh-air breathing, exercising, book reading person produce such a dark essay?
For your considering I suggest the following:
1. Gossip 'helps calm you down': Gossip is healthy because it helps calm you down and is important in maintaining social order, a new study claims.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9022896/Gossip-helps-calm-you-down.html
2. Many articles showing how social media helps those with social anxieties (shyness)Shy girls no more: Facebook eases social anxiety
3. Ways Texting Can Strengthen a Relationship
At the core of communicating via technology and gossip is the human connection, human contact. While I agree with much which is in your essay, I find it too dramatically slanted 'on the dark side' with no acknowlegement of the benefits and how it can aid to establish, develop, enhance and expand relationships with friends and family. This is the centerpiece of life and it is notably absent from this doom and gloom essay.
Since the beginning of humankind humans have
1. Communicated and sought connection 2. Had a drive/desire 'to know' (to seek out information) This time in history is no different except that we now have different ways to communicate, connect, and obtain information. Check out James Gleick's book, "The Information: A History, A Theory, and a Flood" -- what makes the book most compelling to us is that, unlike some of his more defeatist contemporaries, Gleick roots his core argument in a certain faith in humanity, in our moral and intellectual capacity for elevation, making the evolution and flood of information an occasion to celebrate new opportunities and expand our limits, rather than to despair and disengage.http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/03/30/james-gleick-the-information/ On Amazon -- http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375423729/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0375423729&adid=1SAS4ECVV6AA4H8YGHFM
Dave, I have to add that your references are not strong.
The UK Daily Telegraph is a light-weight, right-wing newspaper which follows the UK media herd in producing a lot of populist commentary based on pseudo-science. The second reference links to a remarkably happy-clappy conclusions as to the positive influence of Facebook, whatever ones social skills level, based on a "study" of 55 women! Your final reference is an article written by someone who. among other things, markets the internet! Your biog says one of your interests is Marx. Who the hell are you! |
Eery!By Rissler, Michael at Jul 11, 2012 10:16 AM |
Last night I was meeting with a small group of people who voluntarily are trying to understand the issue of immigration, helping four families, and in spite of our sincerity, thought wander in and out of my mind, questioning if what we are doing is effective. But as I looked around the small circle, I realized that these are people responding in a sincere, largely unnoticed, and humane way to something that matters to real people's lives. No cyber or virtual reality, just reality. As small as the group might seem, it is genuine and crossing lines of nationality, prejudice, confusion, vacuity, and stereotyping. Of course, this is not the only thing these people are doing, each in various ways find their concern about immigration and human welfare branching out in other ways. I doubt that any of them use Facebook to connect to whatever Facebook connects to.
I go to a gym many days a week, very early in the morning before the work world takes over. It is a fast, efficient way to counteract the sedentary lives that our work often leads to. It can be a rejection of inaction, but I have realized, too, that it is 45 minutes or an hour interacting with others, and at the gym I go to this means whites, blacks, Latinos, men, women, and people of many ages from early 20's to a friend I have met there who is in his 80's. There is an unspoken knowledge that we have this amount of time to relate to others who can be quite different than ourselves and at the same eerily related by a common interest in being active and having the ability to do so as the years pass, not withdrawing into retirement or virtual reality.
I look forward to Paul's articles and I am gaining a new appreciate for things that are eery and decent and that enlighten.
Paul you write: [Bradbury's tiny ear radios bear a striking resemblance to today's earbuds and Bluetooth headsets. I recently noticed a series of individuals who seemed oblivious to the world around them carrying on private conversations as they walked (hands-free) past ATMs (predicted by Bradbury) and homeless beggars in Chicago's Loop (where a breathtaking concentration of high-tech militarized local, state, federal and private police recently turned the city's downtown into an occupied zone to prevent protestors from interfering with the meetings of the global killing machine called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization). More people were talking to headsets behind the wheels of gleaming automobiles that swept across an adjacent 8-lane street at lethal speeds. Waiting impatiently at red lights, ready to make engines roar, the cars' occupants seemed unaware of the urban community around them. They stared vacantly at the changing scene beyond glaring windshields that struck me as curiously akin to television screens. ] You write that people seem 'oblious'
to the [outside] world [because] they are engaged in private conversation. They are engaged in talking to another human -- perhaps a loved one, friend, colleague. You say so yourself they are both 'engaged in private conversation' and 'oblivious' -- makes sense. Their attention is only going in one direction -- toward their private conversation. Your writing suggests that people are 'losing themselves' because of technology, but your own writing illustrates the opposite --- the use of technology to communicate with another (this is a personal and very human act) -- so why do you moralize and judge it? Then you write 'More people were talking to headsets'. Again, no, they were talking to another person -- not a headset. You write as if people have lost their [collective] minds are talking to inanimate objects.
What a wonderful, intellegent and gifted man Ray Bradbury was. He will be sorely missed. My favorite Bradbury quote is:
"Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything."
Not so 'eery' afte all, Mike. Did you catch this research?
Rutgers Professor's Research Shows Social Network Sites Foster Close and Diverse ConnectionsKeith Hampton pokes holes in the theory that technology has weakened our relationshipsHampton found a striking negative correlation between new technology and social isolation: Those who are not using the Intenet are the most vulnerable to isolation.
Hampton found a striking negative correlation between new technology and social isolation: Those who are not using the Intenet are the most vulnerable to isolation. "People who are not using Facebook and not even on the Internet are truly the most disadvantage. These people are the least trusting and have the least amount of social support," he said, adding that 20 percent of Americans live without Internet access - a statistic that hasn't changed in a decade. "It also turns out they are the poorest, least educated, and least politically involved." While Facebook users have"no more or less real 'friends' than anyone else," Hampton's study found that "heavy Facebook users do have more close friends" than nonFacebook users.
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My season of Silence
Just like an eagle have I soar
above the cloud
My heart has He taught to lunch deep at this season
The season of silence
In silence have i gain sense
Not that of mediocracy
but that of meditation
In my season of silence have I gain wisdom
not bothering about problems
I have learn to close my mouth
not to talk with my mouth
but to think with my brain in silence
" even fools becomes wise at this season"
In my season of silence have I gain maturity
" if only there could be a substitute for brain,
then it has to be silence"
In my silence have become a master of wisdom
In my nights of silence
I know beyond my others
Silence is the daily meal of the wise
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Sounding like empty drums
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Talk less and think more in silence
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The Nation's Ink
I remember in the church preachers was teaching about the truth
I remember when people praised God and they meant it.
I remember when we sang helms we felt the melody.
But now
Some preachers are quick to sell a fantasy but not reality.
Some preachers are quick to get a buck than desire to serve.
People are closing their ears and screaming.
Hearts stop beating because we stop believing.
I remember when fathers treat responsibility to his family like a Grammy.
I remember fathers leadership gave his family hope through tragedies.
I remember fathers were the rock and God was always the center piece.
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Women are both parenting positions.
Some young men don't have male role models.
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Thugs are being the vision.
Policies are being the teachers;
While jails are being the education.
I remember women treat their bodies like a temple.
I remember women clothes had respect.
I remember women carried theirselves as a queen.
I remember women love was a treasure.
I remember women beauty had purpose.
But now
Short skits are being the symbols.
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Being independent is the new motto.
Focusing on outer beauty than inner beauty is the reason Because emptiness is in this season.
I remember the elderly spoke wisdom and told story's to the kids.
After kids heard them change start to begin.
I remember the community was united.
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Some people are quick to give their souls for a little fame.
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I remember Hip Hop had meaning.
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Hip Hop have no light.
Now It's only bass and The four amigos: money, cars, clothes and sex.
I remember America was base on life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
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I remember Dr. King wrote these lyrics and called it a dream.
But now
The generation is in a nightmare and we call it peace.
I remember when we was so filled with hope.
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I remember when love was the nation's ink.
I remember " In God we trust " was the nation's heartbeat.
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What is a trick?
Is it an activity?,
Or is an imaginable machine,
Suppose we draw a line or circle,
What it is a trick?
Searching pocket is a trick,
Telling joke is a trick,
Writing poem is a trick,
Or observing candle is a trick
So what is a trick?
I find most of the trick in mathematics,
What if an apple would not be fallen?
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Glacialtech, one of Intel's stock-cooler suppliers, has taken a step into the branded high-end cooling segment with its UFO CPU cooler. Expreview took a few snaps of the cooler, which shows a large fin array suspended on four heatpipes, on which two 38 CFM, 92 mm fans blow air downward. The two fans sandwich the aluminum fins, and are covered by sporty black and yellow shrouds. The combined noise of the fans is rated at 28 dBA (at max. speed of 2000 rpm). The cooler supports all current CPU sockets, and is expected to release soon. Source: Expreview
that cpu cooler could also cool by car engine WTF it takes up almost 3/4 of the mobo blowing air out of the case is the only way i would take a cooler i cant believe its not that noisy
That thing is huge! Maybe I'm just being my pessimistic self with this one, but I can't help but think it won't be very good.
The ultimate compliment followed by the ultimate letdown. I'm not sure I'd like this; too many possible clearance issues. It better be damn good if it's built that big.
I'm afraid this (Glacialtech do call is UFO) will abduct my motherboard so I'll stay with the ridiculous AC Freezer X...
It doesnt look that big. Nothing bigger than the core contact freezer imo. Also seeing as how it only has one set of heatpipes on one side, it shouldnt have too many compatibility issues.
You know what, I could just eat a cheese burger. I'm going to look for reviews, I want to know how this performs. I must admit, once all the plastic is stripped away it doesn't look that big.
I have to give them credit for a cool design. It would be nice if it came in other colors than yellow. As for size ... who cares as long as it is not too heavy and fits around all the other components. As for performance, I'll wait for the reviews. The downward blowing coolers never seem to be as effective as the cross blowing ones.
is that a micro board? looks very small, or yet the cooler is just realy big, but i think its a small board, id like to see it on a bigger one.
Sure the cooler is big, but its not as big as the Gemini and not as tall as the Sunbeam Core contact. The performance, well wont be that good honestly considering theres only four heatpipes (why couldnt they do four U shaped heatpipes instead of four L shaped? like on the Thermaltake Big Typhoon), and to make matters worse those seem to be 6mm heatpipes. The choice of two fans is smart, becuase it just cools better compared to a single fan (duh) espcecially with the packed fins (then again, other competing coolers have packed fins as well...). Overall, looks like one of those coolers which would fit into the mid-range bracket.
C'mon people, that cooler is not big, it's just covered in excess plastic and shown on a tiny board Have you ever seen a Scythe Orochi? Or a Cooler Master GeminII? Those are big coolers. Anyways, I hate coolers that blow onto the board. It makes much more sense to me to have airflow go straight from front to back. Plus this thing just looks ugly
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This is a fantastic film, both warm and funny in its depiction of the picaresque adventures of Ernesto & Alberto as they travel across South America; and moving in the way it shows the awakening of Ernesto's revolutionary spirit as he witnesses first hand the poverty, sickness and injustice which are endemic throughout the countries he visits.
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By mike88 (2 reviews) , 11 Jun 2013Fantastic film,historical insight into Che Guevara's life,without getting too political. I thought the acting and directing was good, great scenery, Chile looks a wonderful place. Shows where Che's may have got some of his ideas, and strength of character, with humour and a moving human story, great entertainment without relying on computer graphics.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Not a documentary, but a decent film
By a customer , 20 Apr 2013Given that Jon Lee Anderson's comprehensive biography of Che Guevara had already been out for some years, it's a little hard to forgive the mythologising that persists throughout this film. But then, it's a movie, and the myth of Che is practically as important as his real story - as a narrative on friendship and self-discovery it achieves a certain poignancy, and for anyone with an interest in Spanish language and Latin American geopolitics it's certainly worth a look.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By Dovakhin (9 reviews) , 07 Feb 2013A very interesting film which uses the historical sources accurately. A realistic portrayal of Ernesto Guevara Lynch, not as a political messiah but as a flawed man, prone to womanising and arrogance, rude and dismissive to those he disagreed with but nevertheless charismatic and commited to his ideology.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Wonderful! It's not about the Bike!
By allykat (76 reviews) from Weymouth , 07 Aug 2012Absolutely wonderful! Had to buy myself the Blu-Ray to see again and again. People are still afraid to show too much praise for the remarkable Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, perhaps because he was probably assassinated with the assistance of the CIA. This beautifully made film shows with tenderness and good humour, the man in the making when he was a 24 year-old medical student, as he travelled with his chum, bio-chemist, Alberto Granado on a Norton 500, almost the entire length of South America in 1952.
The film 'shows' rather than tells how his compassion and love of his fellow man developed during his time living on the road, with the poor and even in a leper colony. He is depicted as an extremely honest, sympathetic and brave man, who could have allowed himself to be crippled by his acute asthema, who could have lived a life of ease and plenty but chose instead to take up being a champion of those without hope and to promote South American unity.
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Certainly worth renting!
By Cleggie (2 reviews) , 24 Jun 2012What a wonderful film which was moving, funny in places and very uplifting. It is worth watching the extras for the sweet interview with Ernesto's friend as an old man. It has also made us want to rent Che Parts one and two again. Rent this if you are in the mood for something with depth and soul.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Working with PDFs
Documents Accepted for E-Submission
The term "brief" includes: | The term "Writ or Opposition" includes: |
In lieu of original and four paper copies, a party submitting an electronic copy of a "brief" is required to file an original and three paper copies.
For Civil cases, submitting an electronic copy of the brief will satisfy the requirements for service on the Supreme Court under rule 8.212(c)(2). Please see http://courts.ca.gov/7423.htm.
A party who files a petition, answer, opposition, reply, or other response to a petition, including any supporting documents, must file an original and:
This is in lieu of the requirements contained in California Rules of Court, rule 8.44(b)(3) and (5). (Cal. Rules of Court,