Houston
I forgot to put some James Houston in the last post, so here it is:
"Our inner and outer selves become distended, leading to fragmentation, alienation, nonrecognition, inattention and loneliness. Loneliness is the result of ambiguous relationships, which in a technological society are bred by the double threat of meaninglesness and powerlesness. For the pursuit of power, which is the goal of technology, cannot provide meaningful relationships, but the omnipresence of technology produces only an illusion of power. As this illusion of power grows, legitimacy and shared meaning degenerate into superficiality. The conflict between power and meaning, along with the resulting loneliness and alienation, leads to other cultural disorders as well: fear, violence and the loss of selfhood. The disease of sociosis breeds neurosis - that is, social ills become individual ills. So we are all part of "the lonely crowd" as David Riesman desscribed our technological society. The blurring between the neurotic and the normal continues to weaken our personal values and our ability to sustain reliable relationships." - Houston, 111-12.
"Our inner and outer selves become distended, leading to fragmentation, alienation, nonrecognition, inattention and loneliness. Loneliness is the result of ambiguous relationships, which in a technological society are bred by the double threat of meaninglesness and powerlesness. For the pursuit of power, which is the goal of technology, cannot provide meaningful relationships, but the omnipresence of technology produces only an illusion of power. As this illusion of power grows, legitimacy and shared meaning degenerate into superficiality. The conflict between power and meaning, along with the resulting loneliness and alienation, leads to other cultural disorders as well: fear, violence and the loss of selfhood. The disease of sociosis breeds neurosis - that is, social ills become individual ills. So we are all part of "the lonely crowd" as David Riesman desscribed our technological society. The blurring between the neurotic and the normal continues to weaken our personal values and our ability to sustain reliable relationships." - Houston, 111-12.
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