#industrialized society

[1five1two]

The concept of man as mass robot was both an expression of and a powerful motive force in industrialized mass society. It was the basis for behavioural engineering in commercial, economic, political and other advertising and propaganda; the expanding economy of the 'affluent society' could not subsist without such manipulation. Only by manipulating humans ever more into Skinnerian rats, robots buying automata, homeostatically adjusted conformers and opportunists (or, bluntly speaking, into morons and zombies) can this great society follow its progress toward ever increasing gross national product.

Ludwig von Bertalanffy

#quotes #Industrialized society #man #Robot

[nihilosphere]

"We live in a time of great peril. Humanity and the proud achievements of its infancy on earth are in grave danger. Knowledge has outstripped wisdom. We have controlled disease but have not regulated our numbers. We have advanced our understanding in the natural sciences but have not adequately controlled our baser animal instincts. We have begun to accept the rule of law but have limited its application, permitting it to regulate the affairs of individuals and of small political divisions. While we neglect to use it in controlling a major aggression. We have outlawed the use of murder and violence and resolving individual disputes but have failed to develop procedures to peacefully settle conflicts between nations.

The group consciousness of our race is blind and perverse and it is easily distracted by trivia when it should be focused on fundamentals. We are in a critical era. Population pressures are creating political and economic crisis throughout the world. These make more difficult the building of a rational world society.

The most pressing world environment problem is the need to control human numbers. In recent centuries technology and abundant fuels have multiplied humanity far beyond what is prudent or long sustainable. We can foresee the impending exhaustion of certain energy sources and the depletion of mini vital raw materials.

To control our reproduction is crucial. This will require major changes in our attitudes and customs. Unfortunately, the inertia of human habits can be extreme.This is especially true when those for whom custom is a dominant force are uninformed of the need for change.

No person should be brought into the world unwanted and unneeded. No child should be conceived through carelessness.

The need is urgent and should take precedence over other problems, even those relating to national defense. Population control is a global problem. Overcrowding human beings in conditions of squalor and ignorance is dehumanizing."

- Robert C. Christian

Common Sense Renewed

1986

#overpopulation #population #population override #too many humans #population control #consciousness #awareness #higher functions #conscious experience #fourth dimension #ascension #existentialism #meditation #hermeticism #chaos #industrialized society #disease #war #starvation #homelessness #violence #overcrowding #reproduction #save the planet #health and wellness #environmentalism #understanding #technology

[breezeoddity]

you look like Clara Bow

you look like Stevie Nicks

you look like Taylor Swift

#ttpd #ts ttpd #taylor swift #ttpd era #the tortured poets department #clara bow #stevie nicks #taylornation #taylor swift quotes #poets and writers #Taylor Swift is a music industry #the tortured poets society #ts11 #ts11 aesthetic

[daisiesonafield-blog]

why don't they just come out already?

#why don’t they just come out already? #celebs coming out #billie eilish #homophobia #homophobic society #homophobic industry

[vyva-melinkolya]

titans so terrible, so beautiful

#powerplant #industrial #electricity #industrial society and its future #orange #amber #yellow #red #grain #olympus photography

[talesfromthecrypts]

When I think about how far back the Hays Code put us both artistically and in progressive societal ideals I get so worked up. And then I remember that there are younger people are basically arguing to do it all again and I work myself up some more.

#its important to learn art history actually #because then you'd know how screwed women and queer people and poc got from the conservative turn in the film industry in the mid 30 #and how that reflected back onto society

[nero-neptune]

“Roy was the engineer, and anything related to engineering, in any specialism, would have to pass through his hands. This included assembling the plane’s radio, just like he’d fixed the small battery-operated Spika radio and made it work.

“Adolfo sat down beside him. He explained to Roy that it was not a matter of expertise in electronics but one of ignorance, and pointed out that Roy was the least ignorant of everybody in that department. Roy argued that he had never seen an airplane radio in his life, not even in a book. Adolfo put his hand over Roy’s. ‘I know that, Roy. We all know that. I only wanted to tell you that you were the best one at handling the wires and the terminals, that’s all. But right now that’s a lot, it makes a huge difference … you are the engineer.’

“Roy, almost breathless, added something that his older friend already knew: ‘I am barely in my first year in Engineering, I’m only twenty years old, and the only time I’ve ever been remotely close to anything like this was when I helped instal a damn audio system for my cousins.’

“‘And you fixed the Spika radio,’ Adolfo responded, as if it were a thermonuclear station and not a basic portable radio the size of a pack of cigarettes. Before Adolfo even said the next sentence he knew clearly that it was as painful for him to say as it was for his friend to hear it. ‘Roy, the group needs your abilities. All we’re asking is that you try.’ ”

– “Is Anybody Listening?” from Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story by Pablo Vierci

LA SOCIEDAD DE LA NIEVE | SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (2023) dir. J. A. Bayona

#society of the snow #la sociedad de la nieve #moviegifs #filmgifs #doyouevenfilm #fyeahmovies #userconstance #userrobin #usermarina #userbbelcher #chewieblog #dasakuryo #henricavyll #tuserjyn #dailyflicks #dailyworldcinema #perioddramaedit #userfilm #userstream #myedit #i know i know it's a lot of text i KNOW. it's just important to me #beyond being one more aspect of the story that's shown on screen but further expanded upon in the book- #it spoke to me A Lot bc it's yet another reminder of how 'in their 20s' everyone is here #roy harley's the engineer. and whenever that's mentioned the book goes: #'truly cannot emphasize enough how much he/i hated Every Single Second of being the damned engineer' #like just think about whatever your college/uni major was. and imagine-without warning-you're now the default expert in your field #barely a year's-worth of learning in your back pocket. but people are depending on you! you literally have no room to say 'no' #he did eventually become an industrial engineer. it all worked out. but the stress?? the anxiety??? (all the while missing his best friends #like what a way to learn on the job :/

[smak-annihilation]

where wealth can take you in the 21st century

#funny #comedy #haha #hazbin hotel #meme #joyful cheer #joyus whimsy #vivziepop #hazbin #50k animation #verbalase #hazbin hotel charlie #hazbin hotel 50k animation #verbalase hazbin animation #chasse hide away animation #industrial society and its future

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Do y'all think the increase in Dwarf Fortress' popularity since the Steam version came out last year will result in more ppl becoming communists?

#like the way dwarven society works in the game is not like full on communist but it's at least pretty fucking communist-adjacent #the way industry works is very communist at least

[straawberries]

hey guys. fucking big ass reminder that body positivity extends to everyone that needs it. body positivity means jack shit if youre exclusively positive about the features youre personally attracted to. idc if you think people with bony bodies and ribs that jut out and have spines that you could play like a musical instrument are ugly. people you arent attracted to deserve positivity here too.

#before i get the dreaded response #no im not loved by society because im skinny #i dont suffer as much as fat people do. im aware. you dont need to tell me that. #but the beauty industry isnt exactly telling me how lovely i am at every corner #tumblr is all the positivity some of us fuckin get

[samaspic31]

My growth as an artist was heavily stifled by the dogmatism in the online art community I was subjected to as a teen (aka by rhetoric implying or straight up saying art has to be made a certain way to be valuable, which discouraged me from experimenting and developing for my own methods, customising my artistic process felt illegal) and i will forever be mad about it

Anyways if any young artist follows me : the only good art advice is get weird about it and fuck around a lot. Also be honest

#sam speaks #art advice #lol #this isn’t discrediting advice that’s like pls learn the basics and here’s how to get better at anatomy #this is pointed towards those artists that act like lineart is a given in tutorials #thankfully I’ve seen more and more ppl divorce from the lineart industrial complex #also *insert rant about the internet and mainstream culture’s bias towards smooth art #and how it reveals society’s desire to forget the artist #atsv and itsv ? breeze of fresh air BECAUSE it is innovative artistic processes #and places the human feels of strokes at the center

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories. The society of the 21st century is no longer disciplinary, but a society of the performance. Nor are its inhabitants called ‘subjects of obedience’, but ‘subjects of performance’. These subjects are entrepreneurs of themselves.

Excess work and performance escalate into auto-exploitation. This is much more effective than the exploitation by the others, because it is accompanied by a feeling of freedom. The exploiter is the same exploited. Victim and executioner can no longer differentiate. This self-referentiality generates a paradoxical freedom, which, because of the structures of obligation immanent to it, becomes violence […] In this society of obligation, each one carries with him his forced labor field.

What proves problematic is not individual competition per se, but rather its self-referentiality, which escalates into absolute competition. That is, the achievement-subject competes with itself; it succumbs to the destructive compulsion to outdo itself over and over, to jump over its own shadow. This self-constraint, which poses as freedom, has deadly results..

No-longer-being-able-to-be-able leads to destructive self-reproach and auto-aggression. The achievement-subject finds itself fighting with itself. The depressive has been wounded by internalized war. Depression is the sickness of a society that suffers from excessive positivity. It reflects a humanity waging war on itself.

Today, everyone is an auto-exploiting labourer in his or her own enterprise. People are now master and slave in one. Even class struggle has transformed into an inner struggle against oneself.

― Byung-Chul Han, extracts from The Burnout Society

#Byung-Chul Han #byung chul han #the burnout society #mass culture #culture industry #cultural criticism #philosophy #german philosophy #foucault

[philosophybits]

By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.

Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man

#philosophy #quotes #Herbert Marcuse #One Dimensional Man #capitalism #instrumentalism #industry #society #totalitarianism

[hollow-keys]

Leela and Jamie should meet.

#stabby pre industrial society companions go! #what mischief will they get up to? #leela of the sevateem #jamie mccrimmon #doctor who #classic who #📨

[maironsbigboobs]

re: elf servants

I think generally there are servants in royal/noble households simply for practical reasons and they generally fall into 2 categories: specialised servants (think, stewards and messengers and scribes, masters of horses or kennels, that kind of thing) and servants who help with the upkeep of the household (cleaning, repairs, cooking and also the apprentices and assistants of specialised servants)

specialised servants are probably quite prestigious roles and fields of industry in their own right, and they are considered full members of a household, and probably are closely linked to the person they serve - it's as much a political and social statement to be Finwe's chief scribe as it is an economic one

but the second category are more associated with the house than the family living in it - for example, Finwe's palace in Tirion would function both as a home and a diplomatic and administrative centre, it would be impossible for him to rule and keep up with chores himself. But Fingolfin's personal home would probably not have any full-time servants - when there more people than usual to feed or house then professionals might be hired, but for the most part I imagine the day to day is done by the family (made possible by the fact elves sleep and eat less than humans)

IRL domestic service (at least in the 18th century) often functioned as a kind of prep stage for adult life (for women in particular, but gender is probably not as big a factor for elves) and I could definitely see this in Valinor - domestic servants being 80% elves between 50-100 who haven't chosen an apprenticeship or similar in another field who are earning extra money to set up their own households, getting experience outside of the family, meeting others in their own ae cohort, learning independence etc. It's a job that comes with the offer of room and board + the wages a king/prince/lord can provide. Not glamorous, but not terrible.

The other 20% is made up of professional servants - experienced elves who are genuinely like the work and are contracted workers as much as a builder or gardener might be. Some of them might be independent and others part of businesses set up by other elves who are really into cooking/cleaning etc.

In Beleriand the situation (for the exiles at least) is probably very different, though I think there would be attempts to adapt the system - but there aren't as many households that need servants and there aren't as many young elves.

#i confess i very much enjoy making ocs who are bg characters and servants are perfect for this #made my own post because i could not fit this in the tags LMAO #also the amount of labour needed to run a pre industrial household is HUGE #but elves generally get around this by having a population that is 90% adult and having magic #and having the time for anyone to become vastly skilled in their field in a lifetime #so things like food and clothing production is almost always communal and in the hands of elves who are REALLY into that specific area #the magic being relevant here because elf magic preserves - elven clothes won't wear out elf food doesn't go off etc #(or at least not as easily as human food/clothes) #i prefer to write elf societies that only visually mirror human ones - to an outsider it looks like a hierarchy of lord and servants #but the dynamic is very different #but that is just my preference #silm meta #not really a meta i just need to be able to find this post on my blog lol #long post #this is one of my fave topics hence the rambling

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

People on BookTok will unironically diagnose every woman who reads smutty books with a porn addiction and call everyone who disagrees with their puritanical standards for books a gooner and then pat themselves on the back for being so moral and enlightened as if they're actually going to achieve anything of substance by doing this.

#booktok #anti booktok #ah yes please tell me again how women enjoying smutty novels os the downfall of society you fucking loser #also the fact that it's exclusively women being targeted is not a good look y'all #there are actual issues with the adult entertainment industry that these freaks could be talking about #but nah i forgot Karen reading smutty novels to relax is the bigger issue #be so fucking for real #trying to censor and control what goes into literature makes you fascist #hope this helps!!!!!