http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/11/11/podcast-09-media-eugenics/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:40:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/11/11/podcast-09-media-eugenics/comment-page-1/#comment-24774 Different Strokes for Different Folks - Pop Occulture Blog Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:40:37 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/11/11/podcast-09-media-eugenics/#comment-24774 [...] The novel details something I have been describing elsewhere in the narrative arc associated with the concept of technocracy: that there is a system of control which elevates certain individuals (see my recent podcast) to celebrity status, meanwhile affording them a much greater range of freedoms than ordinary people like you and I are allowed as members of the under-classes. You see this occurring all the time when famous individuals are able to “get away with” more than the rest of us. Different rules apply to them than to us - which Dick’s down-trodden character Taverner discovers all too well. [...] [...] The novel details something I have been describing elsewhere in the narrative arc associated with the concept of technocracy: that there is a system of control which elevates certain individuals (see my recent podcast) to celebrity status, meanwhile affording them a much greater range of freedoms than ordinary people like you and I are allowed as members of the under-classes. You see this occurring all the time when famous individuals are able to “get away with” more than the rest of us. Different rules apply to them than to us - which Dick’s down-trodden character Taverner discovers all too well. [...]

]]> http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/11/11/podcast-09-media-eugenics/comment-page-1/#comment-24761 Edd Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:07:54 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/11/11/podcast-09-media-eugenics/#comment-24761 Hi, just a comment to say I am really enjoying your podcasts. I haven't had the internet for a while so haven't been able to keep up with your posts, but I have managed to download the podcasts. I think the 20minute or so format works really well. Hi, just a comment to say I am really enjoying your podcasts. I haven’t had the internet for a while so haven’t been able to keep up with your posts, but I have managed to download the podcasts. I think the 20minute or so format works really well.

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