Advanced technological society creates its own new culture of silence.

Evidence

Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of most of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system. To the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged in a new “culture of silence.” — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 70

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s parallel interest in information overload and ‘The Soundscape’ material on lo-fi environments erasing signal. — connects to: The more technology enables peace, the harder society is organized against it — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 144