“To develop meaningful and mature relationships at work or at home we need to develop two filters. The first filter protects you from other people. The second filter protects other people from you.”

Source: 21 June 2020 tweet https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1274614961151414273 and TechFilter https://techstartups.com/2020/06/21/elon-musk-we-must-pass-the-great-filter-social-media-is-a-limbic-amplifier-which-inherently-destabilizes-civilization

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2002, Ann Coulter : Left Is 'out to Destroy the Country' (2002)

Source: Crisis Management: A Model For Managers (1993), p. 19

"A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend" by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times (January 18, 1997)

Silence is a Commons (1982)
Context: Machines which ape people are tending to encroach on every aspect of people's lives, and that such machines force people to behave like machines. The new electronic devices do indeed have the power to force people to "communicate" with them and with each other on the terms of the machine. Whatever structurally does not fit the logic of machines is effectively filtered from a culture dominated by their use.
The machine-like behaviour of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the long run, becomes intolerable. Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.

The Guardian staff (December 27, 2000) "It's the end of an earache or do I mean era?", The Guardian.
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