"Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses."

"Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left." -- Marshall McLuhan

"We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies." -- Marshall McLuhan

"The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth." -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"The young will continue turning on no matter how many of them are turned off into prisons. Such legal restrictions only reflect the cultural revenge of a dying culture against its successor." -- Marshall McLuhan

They are destined to lose because they're running old software.

"The future masters of technology will have to be light‑hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb." -- Marshall McLuhan

Keep up the great work Vanguard!

Do you speak it?

I think ~50% of the population will be stuck confessing their sins to centralized digital panoptican gods just to put food on the table.

WoS is great but this is my favorite wallet.

“The literate man is the natural sucker for propaganda. … propaganda is our Achilles heel … You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.” — Marshall Mcluhan

Aspects of the mechanical age we're leaving behind made propaganda particularly effective: Print culture narrows perception and emphasizes rationalism. Linear media mimic logical structure and seem trustworthy. Detachment from immediate, oral experience makes abstract deception easier. Belief in being "above propaganda" makes westerners vulnerable.