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Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions

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The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it.

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All employees are obliged to act in concert, to behave in accordance with corporate form and corporate law. If someone attempted to revolt against these teets, it would only result in the corporation throwing the person out, and replacing that person with another who would act according to the rules. Form determines content: Corporations are machines.

Jerry Mander

Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level: a slow, steady brain-wave pattern in which the mind is in its most receptive mode. It is noncoggnitive mode; i.e., information can be placed into the mind directly, without viewer participation.

Jerry Mander

Jerry Mander

Jerry Mander

Born: May 1, 1936

Died: April 11, 2023 (aged 86)

Bio: Jerold Irwin "Jerry" Mander was an American activist and author, best known for his 1977 book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. His book, The Capitalism Papers, argues against Capitalism as a sustainable and viable system for which to base an economy.

Known for:

The Case Against the Global Economy (1996)
The great international paper airplane book (1967)

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