The really interesting thing, though, is that it seems to sell quite well banal or not. But only as something to be consumed. And we remain blithely distracted as one form of it, or another, works to consume us. What a deal, hugh?
IT COULD BE WORSE
Why Has Dystopia Transformed From The Cataclysmic To The Banally Creepy?
We throw the word around a lot, but the dystopic is in the eye of the beholder.
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[Post Note: Apparently now your face, and recognizing where it is all of the time, is also a must have commodity. Don't expect to get much in return for this however. Sure, they'll try and sell you on the cold comfort of supposedly knowing where the bad guys are, but given certain concerns you might have on how a guy worth something like $700 Billion might throw his weight around, and given how you might want to voice those concerns, publicly certainly, don't you think you ought to be more concerned who is in charge of deciding who, exactly, are the "bad guys?" J.V.]
SAY HI TO BIG BEZOS
Amazon Is Selling Police Departments A Real-Time Facial Recognition System
New documents obtained by the ACLU shed light on Amazon’s Rekognition project.
[Post Note: Here we see another concept that started more as a sales pitch than anything else; selling a depiction of how we could package a consuming way of life to the rest of the world, where "free" meant only the choice to buy into, or not to buy into what the masters of production were really selling: the total dominance of market mentality. A dominance, as we've come to see, that takes over all aspects of what we can then come to value. J.V.]
OLD WORLD ORDER
What Happened To The 'Free World'?
Columnists and politicians decrying the decline of the West can't seem to define what it is they're defending. The entire concept was developed for a very particular historical moment.
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