Well, I finished Jerry Mander's book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. I want to read another book of his, In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations. But first I need to work on my collages in progress. The whole idea of how Technology in total has failed mankind is simmering on the back burner. Somehow I suspect that the whole television thing is merely the first crack in the wall.
I'm giving more thought to Mander's eight points on How to Rule the World. . .
- Eliminate personal knowledge.
- Eliminate points of comparison
- Separate people from each other
- Unify experience. Encourage mental experience at the expense of sensory experience.
- Occupy the mind.
- Encourage drug use.
- Centralize knowledge and information.
- Re-define happiness and the meaning of life.
One last thing I should mention is that Mander is very critical of a favorite of mine, Marshall McLuhan and he makes some interesting points. When I blogged about McLuhan's book The Mechanical Bride I stated that McLuhan is one of the people I'd most like to be stuck in an elevator with. Let me revise that to include Mander together with McLuhan. Now that would be interesting!
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