
Michael D. Montoya · (Commenter on Huffington Post)
“I work in Silicon Valley and my company is based here. We do not know very many in the tech industry who are conservative and any way shape or form. Sure, you might find some CEOs who are conservative but for the most part conservatives are considered the enemy and a level of disgust permeates with them. Net neutrality is something that I support. If you want to stifle innovation and investment then go ahead and support what the GOP wants. I know of very little as far as innovation is concerned that the broadband industry has brought to the table. They are a delivery mechanism and nothing else.”
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Fascism looks “to war for artistic satisfaction of the different kind of sensory perception brought about by technology. This is clearly the culmination of ‘l'art pour l'art (art for art’s sake). Humanity, which in Homer’s day provided a spectacle for the gods of Olympus, has now become one for itself. Its alienation from itself has reached a point where it now allows its own destruction to be savoured as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
With or without the reference to “fascism” as a root cause, the words of Walter Benjamin, written in 1936, were true before they were prophetic.
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