Jerry Mander quotes

“The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it.”
-- Jerry Mander

Source : Jerry Mander (2013). “Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television”, p.23, Harper Collins

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“The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control. Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures.”
-- Jerry Mander

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“The program is only the excuse to get you to watch the advertising. Without the ads there would be no programs. Advertising is the true content of television and if it does not remain so, then advertisers will cease to support the medium, and television will cease to exist as the popular entertainment it presently is.”
-- Jerry Mander

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“It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used to re-create human beings into a new form that matches the artificial, commercial environment. A conspiracy of technological and economic factors made this inevitable and continue to.”
-- Jerry Mander

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“Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions”
-- Jerry Mander

Source : "Technology: Can We Put the Genie Back in the Bottle?" by Jim Selman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2013.

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“Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
-- Jerry Mander

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“Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level: a slow, steady brain-wave pattern in which the mind is in its most receptive mode. It is noncoggnitive mode; i.e., information can be placed into the mind directly, without viewer participation.”
-- Jerry Mander

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“All employees are obliged to act in concert, to behave in accordance with corporate form and corporate law. If someone attempted to revolt against these teets, it would only result in the corporation throwing the person out, and replacing that person with another who would act according to the rules. Form determines content: Corporations are machines.”
-- Jerry Mander

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“life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything”

“Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.”

“I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.”

“My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.”

“People's minds are overloaded with information.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.”

“Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.”

“With rebellion, awareness is born”

“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.”

Source : "Poems". Book by C. F. Main, p. 3, 1973.

“All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1924). “The Dance of ?iva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture”, p.109, Courier Corporation