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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 mothers 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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Through our own 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 crisis.
Genetic Pacification
Our genes which acted in defence are now our worst enemies. In a Western world full of excess, obesity is one of the biggest killers.
Cultural Pacification
Static media, computer games, 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 our inventions 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