All Blog Posts Tagged 'Expertise' (2)

Reading Ellul's Propaganda I came to his declaration that individualist and mass societies are in effect the same thing, that the existence of un-integrated individuals is what makes mass society possible. This is the difference between soil and concrete. Soil consists of integrated particles of varying sizes and types existing in "communities" varying by depth and location, all part of a larger living system. To make concrete you must… Continue

This post is an open letter to Vinay Gupta on listening to his Secret Briefing on Global Poverty given in Brixvill last week. It was an eerie experience, listening over my tired old headphones, a cross between picking up a resistance broadcast somewhere in occupied Europe in the forties and… Continue