Declares Brand first attributed the word "personal" to computer as if that was a good thing. guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 5, 2013
Curiously lists as ideas presumably "introduced" by WEC, "midwife-assisted birth, female masturbation, computers"guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 5, 2013
W/o class/race/feminist critique digirati, like too many hippies before them, were reactionaries mistaking enjoying privilege as revolution.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 5, 2013
I do appreciate Brand's organic/permaculture advocacy, tho it scarcely compensates his deadly nuclear geo-engineering dream-city boosterism.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 5, 2013
Whole Earth was TED before TED. You do realize nothing more damning could be said?
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 5, 2013
"Stay hungry" is a curse and not a virtue in the world beneath privilege. "Stay foolish" is privilege making fools of the hungry.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 5, 2013
"We are as gods and might as well get good at it," is best read as an exhortation to non-existence for megalomaniacal technofetishists.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 5, 2013
"He could have focused on antiwar protests [but] goes to a basement in Stanford & watches people run a computer game."guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 5, 2013
3 comments:
> Whole Earth was TED before TED. You do realize nothing
> more damning could be said?
Hm. I wasn't much interested in composting toilets back
in the 70s, but stumbling across Ted Nelson's
_Computer Lib/Dream Machines_, together with a copy
of the _PDP-11/20 Processor Handbook_, nudged me
into a career as a computer programmer.
I coulda done a lot worse!
Of course, aphorisms rarely bring us to the qualified claims where wisdom resides, they're better at provoking us out of the claims where false wisdom resides. So, yeah, I know and respect what you are saying, believe me, I read plenty in Whole Earth I enjoyed and benefited from, too, especially through high school (the last Viridian issue not least). But as the site of a self-described "technology movement" and a whole futurological techno-transcendental weltanschauung Brand's brand demands the harshest possible interrogation and critique.
I always preferred the Church of the Subgenius's High Weirdness by Mail.
It not only cataloged the weird and the wonderful, it recommended a way of negotiating the world I've always found fulfilling: embrace the unusual, fuck with the unbearable, laugh at the ridiculous, praise the deviant and keep your hand on your wallet when anyone tries to tell you they know what you should do.
The world could use a little slack more than ever.
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