2. Do you think that there is any sense in saving the world?
The arrogance of the question is stupendous.
We have evidently become capable of destroying the human world, and a very large part of the natural world; we may have become capable also of not destroying the world, if we are careful, thoughtful, and lucky; but I see no evidence of any kind that humanity is capable of saving the world, or has any right to presume to do so. The presumption is that of the Judaeo-Christian-White-Male tradition of Man Against/Above Everything Else (women, animals, inanimate nature, etc.) and I reject it categorically. It is far more likely that the world will in the end "save" and use us, than that we will save it or even use it well.
The way in which human beings can "save" the world is, of course, through thought and writing; history, narration of all kinds, description, science, poetry, painting, music. In such actions we catch and save a bit of our world to pass along to other people &/or other times, as a farmer "saves" the seed corn for the next planting.
Schlagwort: Ideologie
Safe from Saving.
Kampfung.
One way to think about effects is to turn the question around; rather than asking how porn affects users, we could ask, Under what conditions would the images in porn not have an effect? In other words, what do men need to be exposed to in order to counter the stories in porn? In media studies we ask similar questions when discussing how to immunize people to the constant flow of consumerist ideology that is paired with capitalism.
Gail Dines: Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Naturhighkunde.
Die Naturhighkunde wendet sich dem ganzen Menschen zu, sie betrachtet Symptome nie isoliert, sondern stets im Zusammenhang: Wer irgendetwas hat, hat höchstwahrscheinlich auch etwas anderes.
Free as in Freedom.
Exactly one year ago I switched from Ubuntu to Debian and never looked back.
Delayed Assembler.
Sentences including "real-time Java" also make a lot of sense if you replace it with "stupid but hilarious idea".