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The Art of Thinking in Other People’s Heads: And What Is a Feuilleton?

68 points by lermontov 10y ago

B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago
> and even normalizes the object of satire That's the genius of the "manufacture of consent" techniques developed since the XVIII century. Advertising refined to nth degree conquers (almost) all. Nothing short of blind fanatical rejection can withstand it, but even that is contained into a few pockets and used as a bogeyman. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine an advertisement shoved on a human face - forever." (Sorry, Eric.)
- icanhackit 10y ago
  > If you want a picture of the future, imagine... There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the brand of phone in your pocket. There will be no love, except the love of celebrities #0000A through #9999F. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of pity over a defeated reality TV show contestant.
- SkyMarshal 10y ago
  >Nothing short of blind fanatical rejection can withstand it, but even that is contained into a few pockets and used as a bogeyman. I'm sure most HN readers already know this, but just feel the need to shout out to Snowcrash, one of the more interesting literary treatments of this topic. The thesis being that most humans are susceptible to NLP mind control except a small subset who happen to have the supremely logical minds of systems engineers. They had to first be taken out by a mind bomb cleverly concealed in visual display static.
  - DanBC 10y ago
    And that bit of Snowcrash always reminds me of Blit, a short story published in Interzone. It's got a few mentions on HN before too. http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
double0jimb0 10y ago
The silence from the HN crowd is deafening.
- glup 10y ago
  Nice that it made it to the front page, though.
  - double0jimb0 10y ago
    Indeed.
DashRattlesnake 10y ago
I really appreciate the old-style print link at the bottom: https://www.neh.gov/print/35511 https://www.neh.gov/print/35511 I hate the modern way of just using a print stylesheet, though that's mainly because it makes it more difficult to get a clean, readable copy into Evernote.
- jessaustin 10y ago
  If that's how pages are now, Evernote should just write a custom renderer that uses the proper css. (or I guess they could write a bunch of print drivers but that seems hairier...)

68 points by lermontov 10y ago

> and even normalizes the object of satire That's the genius of the "manufacture of consent" techniques developed since the XVIII century. Advertising refined to nth degree conquers (almost) all. Nothing short of blind fanatical rejection can withstand it, but even that is contained into a few pockets and used as a bogeyman. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine an advertisement shoved on a human face - forever." (Sorry, Eric.)

icanhackit 10y ago
> If you want a picture of the future, imagine... There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the brand of phone in your pocket. There will be no love, except the love of celebrities #0000A through #9999F. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of pity over a defeated reality TV show contestant.
SkyMarshal 10y ago
>Nothing short of blind fanatical rejection can withstand it, but even that is contained into a few pockets and used as a bogeyman. I'm sure most HN readers already know this, but just feel the need to shout out to Snowcrash, one of the more interesting literary treatments of this topic. The thesis being that most humans are susceptible to NLP mind control except a small subset who happen to have the supremely logical minds of systems engineers. They had to first be taken out by a mind bomb cleverly concealed in visual display static.
- DanBC 10y ago
  And that bit of Snowcrash always reminds me of Blit, a short story published in Interzone. It's got a few mentions on HN before too. http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

double0jimb0 10y ago

The silence from the HN crowd is deafening.

glup 10y ago
Nice that it made it to the front page, though.
- double0jimb0 10y ago
  Indeed.

DashRattlesnake 10y ago

I really appreciate the old-style print link at the bottom: https://www.neh.gov/print/35511 https://www.neh.gov/print/35511 I hate the modern way of just using a print stylesheet, though that's mainly because it makes it more difficult to get a clean, readable copy into Evernote.

jessaustin 10y ago
If that's how pages are now, Evernote should just write a custom renderer that uses the proper css. (or I guess they could write a bunch of print drivers but that seems hairier...)