• foggy@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    There are very few more quotable humans to have lived.

    The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

    If that wasn’t the basis for the Black mirror episode, the Waldo moment, I don’t know what was.

    Then we’ve got my personal favorite, which isn’t quite as relevant here:

    Anybody who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.

    Was also famous for saying

    We drive forward using only our rear view mirrors

    And perhaps his most quoted quip

    The medium is the message

    Which I don’t think was clear to people what he meant until, probably, the advent of the personal web page. Guy died before the world wide web and basically saw that tik tok would be our undoing.