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I might have a similar perspective, and maybe these words (not mine) can help further articulate why he is an agent of a sinister force: --- i have seen many
by disqard 3y ago
I might have a similar perspective, and maybe these words (not mine) can help further articulate why he is an agent of a sinister force:
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i have seen many people spill their guts on-line, and i did so myself until, at last, i began to see that i had commodified myself. commodification means that you turn something into a product which has a money-value. in the nineteenth century, commodities were made in factories, which karl marx called “the means of production.” capitalists were people who owned the means of production, and the commodities were made by workers who were mostly exploited. i created my interior thoughts as a means of production for the corporation that owned the board i was posting to, and that commodity was being sold to other commodity/consumer entities as entertainment. that means that i sold my soul like a tennis shoe and i derived no profit from the sale of my soul.
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IMO, he is an excellent example of people knowingly leveraging that commodification to generate money, and that is why I personally don't like his content.
Edit to add source of quote -- "Pandora's Vox" (worth reading in full): https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643 https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643
- mihaic 3y agoThank you for that, very interesting read. I've become convinced that the thinkers of the 60s and 70s pretty much figured out how technology would corrupt society (see for instance Lewis Mumford, Marshal McLuhan), but there's no money in coordinating solutions.