ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Vertical Integration
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Because it has eliminated the freedom and responsibility to think, rationally, for oneself, critically. Through technical and cultural/institutional processes (eugenics, the conditioning centers) Thus rote learning (through hypnopaedia, but also through writing/memorizing using a computational analogy, programming/structuring our knowledge according to the requirements of the systems that will orient our identity in the community to preserve stability, i. e. happiness. The factory system of mechanized production and consumption. But also comes with ideology of individual freedom and choice. Also famous for the production of the auto-mobile (etymology: autonomy and mobility) "the freedom to at least try to be anything we want to be" We do have a great deal of freedom (can go anywhere on the roads), we are all equals, and it gives a nice feeling of freedom. But underneath all the freedom, there seems to be a lot of requirements/constraints for conformity.