“For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and anxiety.” RunningModernAnxietyStandardsMachinesFeaturesDepersonalization Author:Charles Eisenstein
“The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.” UseModernProductsStandardsMachinesAimPrimariesWarfareStandards Of LivingModern Warfare Book:George Orwell's 1984 Source: George Orwell's 1984
“The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that have given us a high living standard to start with. Driven by irresponsible policy makers, America's present generation is consuming the nation's capital.” ReasonAmericaGivenNationsGenerationsPolicyBuildingKeysStandardsMachinesDrivenReason WhyMakersFactoriesAncestorConsumingIrresponsiblePolicy Makers Author:Kurt Richebacher
“Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.” IfsMenLittlesWould BeForceStudyPsychologyCapableStandardsMachinesMechanicMaintainingExternal Forces Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.” ConsciousnessForeverImpossibleEventsStandardsConsciousMachinesDancingGenuineGhostPredictablePhantoms Author:Alan Moore
“I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's behavior couldn't be measured by human standard's of normalcy... or by any standards of normalcy at all. Bitten” KnowsShouldHumansWellsSaidTwoTodayLeftWaitingHoursKnownKnow HowBehaviorMessagesStandardsShould HaveMachinesChecksGatesComing BackClayWaiting For YouNormalcy Author:Kelley Armstrong
“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.” WayKindCommonEmotionFictionTechnologyMediaEqualMassStandardsMachinesUniversalAimJazzOne WayComicAppealsOperaSchemesUrbanSoapMass MediaCommon DenominatorSoap OperasPulpMovie SetsComic StripsMannerismsIncidenceLowest Common DenominatorEveryone Is Equal Book:White Collar: The American Middle Classes Source: White Collar: The American Middle Classes
“To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.” PeopleLittlesDifferentBitsImaginationTechnologyLittle BitStandardsMachinesCaptureComputingMacintosh Author:Bill Gates
“There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.” KindFactsForceStandardsGunMachinesPoliceHistoricalHeavyLocalsAll KindsDepartmentChemicalsTanksRocketsSprayPolice ForceMachine GunsInfantryPolice DepartmentBazookas Author:Paul Craig Roberts