Reality is scarce because few control the machinery that determines it
Evidence
In our time reality is scarce because of access: so few command the machinery for its determination. Some get to speak and some to listen, some to write and some to read, some to film and some to view. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 389
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 389
- XREF: connects to: Mechanized knowledge creates monopolies that endanger freedom of thought — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 1123; Emerging technologies can obscure important social responsibilities. — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 431; Transparency can function as a mechanism of control, not liberation — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1259 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy
#complicates(0.80) - Power symbols express stabilized possibility, not resemblance to what is possible.
#expands(0.75) - Mechanized knowledge creates monopolies that endanger freedom of thought
#corroborates(0.65) — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 1123 - Transparency can function as a mechanism of control, not liberation
#corroborates(0.65) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1259 - Emerging technologies can obscure important social responsibilities.
#corroborates(0.55) — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 431