Global Village
"I think progress is the biggest enemy on earth, apart from oneself… I think we're gonna take good care of this planet shortly...there's never been a weapon created yet on the face of the Earth that hadn't been used. We're run by the Pentagon, we're run by Madison Avenue, we're run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don't revolt we'll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche. As long as we go out and buy stuff, we're at their mercy. We're at the mercy of the advertiser and of course there are certain things that we need, but a lot of the stuff that is bought is not needed...
We all live in a little Village. Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners."
— Patrick McGoohan, 1977 (via)
posted by owen hatherley at 11:37 pm
2 Comments:
The best summary yet of the modern world.
To regrets of disappointment of controversial mentalities and opposing views in personalities these create a world of conflicting interests, all this stated is of truth, yet if all this main-stream stuff (Madison Avenue) motivates integrity ultimately promoting status in society's strive and commitment to providing a better state-of-being to a community...apart from oneself. In having this sense of contentment enables the individual to disregard necessity versus instituted, materialistic influences perceived of useful, status retaining, and cutting-edge.
To better suit the pertaining it's best to say that media does have influence over people's perceptions over the useful or mandatory implied to be of worth, to succeed, and to participate in what is called "pertanance" of the "commonunality" of knowledge of and/or lack of "wealth."
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