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Power, Politics & Poverty in the Digital Age: Inequality, Influence & Control
Episode 84
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Based on a phenomenal book by Jakob Linaa Jenson: “ The medieval Internet”
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Speaker 0 (0s): Welcome back. My friend, I change by not changing history. Doesn't repeat, but it isn't it weird how the older you get, the more you become like your parents, even though when you were young, you swore to yourself that you would never become like your parents. It seems to me, you can run your whole life, but not go anywhere.
There's nothing new under the sun. Do you guys see what's happening right now? If you want to know the future, you must look at the path he who controls the future controls the past. He controls the past control as the present did, get it.
You understand, we have this weird feeling of deja VU right now, a feel, and I hope you feel this way. And if you don't feel this way, I am going to try to make you feel the way that I feel using the words I'm using. I'm going to paint you a picture. I'm hopeful. It will be a masterpiece. I'm hopeful that if you can get goosebumps by listening to the words, I'm about to talk to you about the words I'm about to give to you.
If I can make you get goosebumps, if I can make your face flush, then I am communicating with you. So let me see if I can do that. This whole COVID the whole world of the internet. It seems eerily familiar. Doesn't it? You know, history is something that can be so amazing and so beautiful.
And so poetic. If you want to know where your rat in your life, there's probably someone who wrote a book or a story or a fable. There's probably a story that explains your life. Your story is a beautiful story. If your willing to take control of it, if you're willing to take ownership of your life and your story, it will be a story that can be remembered. And if you've lost your way, they look back and you can find your way ahead.
Let me explain what I mean or at least attempt to do so controlling information is controlling the world.
Speaker 1 (3m 1s): Gonna say that again, controlling information is controlling the world. If you can control information, you can control the world. I'm going to make the argument that we in today's society in 2020 are beginning to look a lot more like a medieval system.
Speaker 0 (3m 21s): The, the comments, the monarchy, the Catholic church,
Speaker 1 (3m 29s): What worries about new technology they're as old as the discoveries of new technologies already, Plato was warning that writing would damage memory and recognize the double sided nature of new technology with on the one side, the vast advantages given by writing in the organization of his resources. And on the other side, have the ability of insurgence to use writing, to organize against the powers that be.
We've touched upon this a little bit. There's a book
Speaker 0 (4m 4s): That
Speaker 1 (4m 6s): Goes in to some of this. It's called tech knobbly, and he also speaks about this exact same passage. However, he takes it back further. He takes it back to the times of Toth. Remember the Emerald tablets of talk. Do you remember that? And Toth goes up into his, hi
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