And I say this as someone who did 4 years of critical media theory at uni (PS. don’t, fucks you up bad) so I know where Sconce is coming from. But it’s far too easy to assume that what came before the temporal lower bound of your area of critical focus was better. It rarely is.
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As meandering and precarious as it is, we call it human progress for a reason. As much as there is to be critical about, we cannot deny the painstakingly slow but real social progress we have made over the ages.
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Our great challenge is to ensure that the social and technological infrastructures we build going forward encourage and amplify our progress towards social justice instead of impeding or possibly extinguishing it altogether.
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If I remember correctly, Pline the Old was already poking fun at those speaking of "the good old times".
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Not an expert on Pliny but yes, it’s fair to assume that people have been nostalgic for as long as they’ve been aware of a time before :)
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This is a weak paraphrasing of Jean Baudrillard, who got his ideas from Philip K Dick, who believed that this world is an autonomous simulacrum that coalesced around the rise of Christianity in Rome, called the Black Iron Prison. There was no golden age, just a map of the dark.
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We should fix the markets, which virtualize real goods using a conjured-up money and make them indistinguishable from thin air. This "golden age" started with the global market for food grains, monitored by imperial Britain, that pushed famine, starvation and genocide in India.
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