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[[File:Pacifier.jpg|alt=Pacifier|thumb|Companies will always have a solution to sell even if it is not the solution.]] | [[File:Pacifier.jpg|alt=Pacifier|thumb|Companies will always have a solution to sell even if it is not the solution.]] | ||
'''Through our innocence, we have been trying to meet our every need. Now our technologies have met our every need they are now pacifying us from reacting to crises. Movies have us believe that there is one villain Rothchilds, Illuminati, Darth Vader... but in fact, it is the [[Machines|machine]] itself.''' | '''Through our innocence, we have been trying to meet our every need unbeknownst the human experience is more about the journey and less about the destination. Now our technologies have met our every need they are now pacifying us from reacting to crises. Movies have us believe that there is one villain Rothchilds, Illuminati, Darth Vader... but in fact, it is the [[Machines|machine]] itself.''' | ||
== Genetic Pacification == | == Genetic Pacification == | ||
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Static media, computer games, 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 mother's teat, adults have more complicated desires. Could it be that tolerance in the wider world for despots has occured as our inventions provide an escape for our warriors? | Static media, computer games, 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 mother's teat, adults have more complicated desires. Could it be that tolerance in the wider world for despots has occured as our inventions provide an escape for our warriors? | ||
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