I came across Theodore Roszak from an excellent book on aromatherapy by Kurt Schnaubelt, PhD "The Healing Intelligence of Essential Oils"
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4mzEvqsiuY\
A passage of Kurt's book on Roszak:
According to arguments outlined in Theodore Roszak’s Cult of Information, compiling and processing information increasingly substitutes for thinking. The information overflow makes it hard to detect intentional falsification by omission.
Bingo! Do we find ourselves being guilty of this kind of behavior, as we go through stuy after study, and relying on meta-studies, and finding confirmation by the use of the tyrrany of the majority, instead of looking for the study that possesses quality intent, design, methodology, analysis, and a conclusion worthy of our consideration? Or better yet, do we even think about whether the conclusions make sense in that it aligns with our perceptions?
Another quote:
So consumed are we with the concept of information that many nonquantifiable values of our culture—such as tolerance or human approaches to suffering and disease—have all but silently evaporated. In his Cult of Information, Theodore Roszak considers this to be a consequence of the intentional introduction of soulless data processing into every aspect of society: The subliminal lesson that is taught whenever the computer is used (unless a careful effort is made to offset that effect) is the data-processing model of the mind. This model, as we have seen, connects with a major transition in our economic life, one that brings us to a new stage of high tech industrialism, the so-called Information Age with its service oriented economy. Behind that transition, powerful corporate interests are at work shaping a new social order. The government (especially the military) as a prime customer and user of information technology is allied to the corporations in building that order.7
This is how Schnaubelt recommends Roszak's book:
Roszak, Theodore. The Cult of Information. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. If one wonders whether ever more aspects of our lives need to be run by digital devices, this treatise argues that this slide into an information economy has been carefully planned and executed since the end of World War II.
Our steadfast march into oblivion goes on as planned. There is no need of proof anymore. We are it!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4mzEvqsiuY\
A passage of Kurt's book on Roszak:
According to arguments outlined in Theodore Roszak’s Cult of Information, compiling and processing information increasingly substitutes for thinking. The information overflow makes it hard to detect intentional falsification by omission.
Bingo! Do we find ourselves being guilty of this kind of behavior, as we go through stuy after study, and relying on meta-studies, and finding confirmation by the use of the tyrrany of the majority, instead of looking for the study that possesses quality intent, design, methodology, analysis, and a conclusion worthy of our consideration? Or better yet, do we even think about whether the conclusions make sense in that it aligns with our perceptions?
Another quote:
So consumed are we with the concept of information that many nonquantifiable values of our culture—such as tolerance or human approaches to suffering and disease—have all but silently evaporated. In his Cult of Information, Theodore Roszak considers this to be a consequence of the intentional introduction of soulless data processing into every aspect of society: The subliminal lesson that is taught whenever the computer is used (unless a careful effort is made to offset that effect) is the data-processing model of the mind. This model, as we have seen, connects with a major transition in our economic life, one that brings us to a new stage of high tech industrialism, the so-called Information Age with its service oriented economy. Behind that transition, powerful corporate interests are at work shaping a new social order. The government (especially the military) as a prime customer and user of information technology is allied to the corporations in building that order.7
This is how Schnaubelt recommends Roszak's book:
Roszak, Theodore. The Cult of Information. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. If one wonders whether ever more aspects of our lives need to be run by digital devices, this treatise argues that this slide into an information economy has been carefully planned and executed since the end of World War II.
Our steadfast march into oblivion goes on as planned. There is no need of proof anymore. We are it!
