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@davidgraeber's essay Dead Zones of Imagination is an interesting addition to the conversation that I had about Oxford Analytica and dangerous impact on our political life.
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Probably the most significant changes in today's lives is the total surveillance of the entire world population, which is done by machines. @davidgraeber a signature in his emails, saying: Sent via NSA data collation center, location classified.
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According to @davidgraeber , the ruling class finds itself living in the Dead Zones of Imagination, precisely because it lacks the ability to look at the world through somebody else's eyes, which means it cannot do care work, creative work.
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This is why the oppressed confined to violence and stupidity.
Think for a moment, what will happen to the machines?
They will certainly not be able to imagine themselves in the place of humans. And it will be such total violence, its most brutal and non-applause form.
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Think for a moment, what will happen to the machines?
They will certainly not be able to imagine themselves in the place of humans. And it will be such total violence, its most brutal and non-applause form.
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However, this violence will be different from the oppressor's violence, which is impersonal and, in this sense, divine. Our imagination, our human ability to experience as if we were the Other, not available to the machines. That's our advantage and all we can hope for.
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