Narrative Warfare: Postman's Technopoly & The Present Condition

Today I bring you, again, Richard Grove of Tragedy & Hope. This is his #SmartReads episode on Neil Postman's Technopoly for the Autonomy Project.

Pay attention to what Grove says. Compare the clear claims of technology as moral philosophy, as put forth by Postman in his 1992 book, to Brian Niemeier's posts on the Death Cult and its front the Pop Cult. Both of these are explanations for how an elite that hates Man and seeks to exploit and control Man, as one would a herd of cattle, in defiance of and rebellion against God.

And Postman, by the by, was not speaking to outsiders. As with Carroll Quigley regarding his Tragedy & Hope, Postman's writing for insiders and fellow travelers- for those doing the exploiting. He's not teaching outsiders how to defy and destroy the control grid; he's teaching his fellows what their tools actually are, how they actually work, and why they work that way so that they can employ those tools most effectively for the end of keeping us in line.

Remember the date, 1992. Bill Clinton wins the Presidency that year, starting the Clinton Years that define the 1990s for American youth of the day. This was the decade that saw the emergence of the Internet as a commercial entity. What Niemeier identifies as Generation Y emerges here, and everything that would prove to afflict them has its roots in what Grove explores in Postman's book; the atomization accelerated here, pulling out parents and leaving only popular culture--carried by technology--to fill that void.

The takeaway here is this: technological changes force cultural changes, changes that are foreseeable and therefore both predictable and programmable. Thus it is irresponsible to introduce technologies without a full accounting of the changes that would result in doing so; the elite, as a class, are aware of this fact and are doing this, and they have weaponized it. (e.g. using porn as a weapon to demoralize target populations)

Watch to the end; cancel your bingewatch for tonight, take notes, and think about what's being discussed here. You really do need to reconsider your use of technology.

You should be able to find this book in your local library. If not, guess what? Amazon has it.