Deleuze: 'The Technocrat is a Dictator'

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[hahayoureanoob]

I dream of knowledge, revolutionary intelligence. Built on a knowledge of history, philosophy, science and revolutionary thought. I use my computer for this. It is a quite slow building of a comprehensive world view. One which I wish to be able articulate concisely to my friends, family and wider community.

[Jebusite]

The problem is that the anti-technocrat is also a dictator. Whether you embrace technology or deny technology, you are still a slave to it. If we are to be free, we will need to find a nonimpositional attitude toward the very attitude of imposition.

[clumsydad]

from the 'beginning of time', so to speak, man has competed with man for basic access to resources and reproduction, and in this evolution maintained systems of domination, in primitive social order, and into feudalism and capitalism the presumption has remained the same; that man inherently has the objective to dominate his fellow man. the spectrum of permissible domination changes via complex social/racial factors, etc., but the extractive structure remains. ... so yes, action is the cure for any stasis, as stagnation is the end point for any ideological theory or assumption of 'the solution' - it always ends in death. ... yes, we always have to dream, but we are always further subdued and overwhelmed by our technics. further we are narrowed into mental infirmary when we fail to embrace our natural plurality of cultures and ways and naturalness.