> To point to this [premature synthesis, "rage to conclude" or profit] ruthlessly wherever it is perceived, regardless of possible inconsistencies or disappointed ideals, must be the task of disinterested inquirers in any period of history.

Sounds like he's talking about today's tech and what we should be doing. #Russel #BertrandRussel and #DoraRussel

> We concluded, as some writers in Germany and Czechoslovakia have also concluded, that the important fact of the present time is not the struggle between #capitalism and #socialism but the struggle between industrial civilization and #humanity...This view was reinforced.. by the extreme similarity between the #Bolshevik #commissary and the #American #TrustMagnate [#Capitalist]...

#BertrandRussel and #DoraRussel in _Prospects For #IndustrialCivilization in 1924

https://archive.org/details/prospectsofindus0000bert_l3l6

> "Men and women cannot live every moment of their lives at the rational and disciplined level required in modem industrial societies..."
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59284
#Faster #Rapidification #DoraRussel #BertrandRussel
on #IndustrialCivilization in 1923 and 1957, way before Gleik in 1999 and Carr in the 2000's and the Pope in 2015.. Over a hundred years of inappropriate pacing...

It's hard not to keep thinking about his book, _The Prospects of Industrial Civilization_ by #BertrandRussel and #DoraRussel. What they call "trivial pursuits and passivity" #LewisMumford called "semi-mental distraction"... and they are writing 50 or 60 years before proprietary SNSs, unless we can see commercial mainstream media as some sort of centralized SNS...

https://libgen.is/search.php?req=The+Prospects+of+Industrial+Civilization&open=0&res=25&view=simple&phrase=1&column=title

#Oligarchy #Dictatorship #IndustrialCivilization

"Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead..."
https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/come-september/217403
#ArundhatiRoy on #Nationalism and the #flag reminding me of #DoraRussel and #BertrandRussel on the same topics AND on #industrialcivilization

"#Socialism professes to be at once international and the champion of oppressed nations, while #capitalism favours nationalism as a method of distracting the working man from socialistic ideas: so long as he can be kept hating #foreigners, he will be less vigorous in hating #capitalists. All these factors are important in considering the conflict which is threatening to
destroy our #civilization."
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.59284/2015.59284.The-Prospects-Of-Industrial-Civilization_djvu.txt
#DoraRussel #bertrandrussel #IndustrialCivilization

"... socialism, if it could be achieved vdthout prolonged war and industrial dislocation, could bring a very considerable degree of material well-being to the whole population, by exacting only four or five hours of daily labour from every adult citizen. And it would not need to be a centralized bureaucratic system"
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.59284/2015.59284.The-Prospects-Of-Industrial-Civilization_djvu.txt
#DoraRussel #BertrandRussel in #IndustrialCivilization 1923 sounding like #DavidGraeber in #BullshitJobs 2018

"... the extreme similarity between the Bolshevik commissary and the American Trust magnate; both appeared as persons imbued with the importance of mechanism for its own sake, and of their own position as holders of the key to the clockwork."
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.59284/2015.59284.The-Prospects-Of-Industrial-Civilization_djvu.txt

#BertrandRussel and #DoraRussel on
#IndustrialCivilization #commissar #mandarin #American #USA #mechanist #bolshevik

"An interesting development of this theme can be found in #LewisMumford 's The #TransformationsofMan (1957)." --
#DoraRussel .
We survived (barely) over 100 years of inhuman #activityrhythm . The #Bullshit

"Men and women cannot live every moment of their lives at the rational and disciplined level required in modem industrial societies. Psychiatry has revealed the wider and deeper aspects of human personality which seek expression in human relations, through the free adventuring of the imagination in the arts and sciences, the creative use of the senses." -- #DoraRussel with #BertrandRussel in a #book on #IndustrialCivilization in 1923.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59284