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Our technologies have met our every need pacifying us. | |||
== Genetic Pacification == | |||
Our genes which acted in defence are now our worst enemies. In a western world of excess obesity is a bigger killer than starving. | |||
== Cultural Pacification == | |||
Smartphones are not unlike adult pacifiers.<ref>Shiri Melumad, Michel Tuan Pham, The Smartphone as a Pacifying Technology, ''Journal of Consumer Research'', Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2020, Pages 237–255, <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaa005</nowiki></ref> Whilst a baby will have a need for milk and the mothers teat, adults have more complicated desires. Could it be that tolerance in the wider world for despots has occured as computer games provide an escape for our warriors? | Smartphones are not unlike adult pacifiers.<ref>Shiri Melumad, Michel Tuan Pham, The Smartphone as a Pacifying Technology, ''Journal of Consumer Research'', Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2020, Pages 237–255, <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaa005</nowiki></ref> Whilst a baby will have a need for milk and the mothers teat, adults have more complicated desires. Could it be that tolerance in the wider world for despots has occured as computer games provide an escape for our warriors? | ||
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Revision as of 06:09, 18 March 2022
Our technologies have met our every need pacifying us.
Genetic Pacification
Our genes which acted in defence are now our worst enemies. In a western world of excess obesity is a bigger killer than starving.
Cultural Pacification
Smartphones are not unlike adult pacifiers.[1] Whilst a baby will have a need for milk and the mothers teat, adults have more complicated desires. Could it be that tolerance in the wider world for despots has occured as computer games provide an escape for our warriors?
References
- ↑ Shiri Melumad, Michel Tuan Pham, The Smartphone as a Pacifying Technology, Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2020, Pages 237–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaa005