Showing posts with label sociology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sociology. Show all posts

Nov 4, 2026

Positives of the luddites/Neil Postman

I have been uncharitable to the historiography of the Luddites, especially, but I want to know what lessons we can draw from history. There is, however, a polysemy and ambiguity in historiography that we are going to have to grapple with for the rest of our lives.

1. Job guarantee
2. Labour protections
3. Labour law
4. Work tax

They should have thought of that instead of a slave-driver morality, I guess such as the Protestant work ethic. Along with abolishing copyright law.

Neil Postman taught me of the dangers of an entertainment monopoly. Along with how social media and its drawbacks affect how our audience captures jobs in the market, with how sardonic it can get, and in many ways, that of the foggishness of mob rule generally.