<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 21:40, BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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As Postman wrote:<br>
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies<br>
that undo their capacity to think.<br>
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Postman's book can be downloaded or read online (197 pages) here:<br>
<<a href="https://www.eternal.life/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/amusing-ourselves-to-death.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.eternal.life/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/amusing-ourselves-to-death.pdf</a>><br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div>I read Amusing Ourselves To Death when it came it, and it has been increasingly eerie how spot-on he was when he wrote that book</div><div><br></div><div>Dwayne<br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">   <a href="mailto:ddraig@pobox.com" target="_blank">ddraig@pobox.com</a>              ddraigbot / NSO / Connery<br>          ...r.e.t.u.r.n....t.o....t.h.e....s.o.u.r.c.e...<br>                   <a href="http://fav.me/dqkgpd" target="_blank">http://fav.me/dqkgpd</a><a href="http://tinyurl.com/he-is-right-you-know-jpg" target="_blank"></a><br>our aim is wakefulness,  our enemy is dreamless sleep</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>