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In this land of distraction, we begin to rely on fragments, snippets, and push-button answers, and that is not a step forward. That is the beginning of a cultural decline.
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Distracted:
…[it’s] now an established modern tenet: keeping people under watch is an ingenious way to regulate them. The gaze is mightier than the whip.
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Distracted:
Watching and tracking and monitoring provides comforting evidence – the snapshot, the print-out, the fix on a map – of ‘presence’ in a virtual, mobile, split-focus world.
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Distracted:
…surveillance can’t cohabitate with trust, the slow-to-bud, immeasurable essence of close relations that thrives only outside the panoptic gaze.
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Distracted:
By choosing surveillance-based attention, we are ushering in an age of mistrust. This is the first collective loss we will suffer by cultivating a culture of distraction.
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Distracted:
…the measurement and management of risk is more central to our culture than ever before, as the unavoidable cost of navigating a world that we feel that we can actively shape…
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Managing risks… is a way of organizing the future, and surveillance is a natural offshoot of our now-obsessive efforts to control what’s coming around the corner.
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Along with the slippery perimeters of cyberspace, we micro-manage the boundaries of our physical realms, unwittingly turning ourselves into intruders in our own safe zones… – Steven Flusty
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…what was once solid is permeable and what was once grounded is mobile. Institutions and traditions of the past are fraying.
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Now we live in societies of control, not discipline…
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