Jerry Mander wrote the book "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" where he writes that the technolgy of TV bypasses our internal filter and can replace our imagination. He later wrote a book titled "In the Absence of the Sacred" that you could have written with your understanding. https://www.academia.edu/70154839/In_the_Absence_of_the_Sacred
When that abomination of a woman on the View lamented on how woman aren't paid for what they provide to their families, my mind instantly went to an amazing recording I heard years ago of a lecture by John Taylor Gatto called; John Taylor Gatto: Beyond Money. At roughly the 5 minute mark he speaks more directly of the paradox of turning everything into a commodity. Re-listening to the entire lecture revealed a mirroring of several other aspects of this offering on the Talamanca Review (the multiple references to Solomon aside, he quotes Rousseau at one point). In particular, the loss of meaning and purpose as a by-product of the conditioning from our collective institutions that has given rise to addictions that allow ourselves to avoid acknowledging our own uselessness.
Jerry Mander wrote the book "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" where he writes that the technolgy of TV bypasses our internal filter and can replace our imagination. He later wrote a book titled "In the Absence of the Sacred" that you could have written with your understanding. https://www.academia.edu/70154839/In_the_Absence_of_the_Sacred
When that abomination of a woman on the View lamented on how woman aren't paid for what they provide to their families, my mind instantly went to an amazing recording I heard years ago of a lecture by John Taylor Gatto called; John Taylor Gatto: Beyond Money. At roughly the 5 minute mark he speaks more directly of the paradox of turning everything into a commodity. Re-listening to the entire lecture revealed a mirroring of several other aspects of this offering on the Talamanca Review (the multiple references to Solomon aside, he quotes Rousseau at one point). In particular, the loss of meaning and purpose as a by-product of the conditioning from our collective institutions that has given rise to addictions that allow ourselves to avoid acknowledging our own uselessness.
This is the link if anyone is interested
https://youtu.be/sIkpxUVyRwo?si=HgBFB6gc_eHjzgRh
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell