The Anarchist Case for Moderation: Television, Computers, and a Post-Capitalist Future (tags)
"I recently exchanged views with the editors of a certain counter-cultural magazine about the (de)merits of computers, and of the internet... The point of contention involves whether the internet is as alienating as television... Television is pure reception. The internet, on the other hand, allows for both reception and transmission. And therein lies the internet’s most pernicious feature... "
"What is the position of a thoughtful revolutionary to be with regard to technology?..."
Join the One-Minute Boycott of CBS (tags)
Join the One-Minute Boycott of CBS
MAD COW DISEASE! MAD COW DISEASE! MAD COW DISEASE! MAD COW DISEASE! EAT MORE BURGERS! MAD COW DISEASE! EAT MORE BURGERS! MAD COW DISEASE!
"Have a nice police state!" (tags)
This time they descend on you -- a covey of smiling security screeners bearing balloons and brightly wrapped packages, accompanied by National Guardsmen with flowers poking out of the barrels of their MP-5 machine guns -- singing the Barney the Dinosaur theme song. "I love you, you love me ..."
Liberators bring Big Macs and Democracy on the tips of bayonets. Yankee boy... welcome to Iraq... now go home.