HIS236H5 Lecture Notes - Resistance Theory In The Early Modern Period, Thursday Afternoon, Industrial Revolution
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Thursday afternoon, talk on resistance theory and modern democracy. Most or all of our human relationships are mediated through technology, which alienates us. Relationships are based on emotion, technology eliminates that. Making people stupid is in the interest of the state. It"s all about the maintenance of the capitalist world system. Consumerism becomes the soma of the modern world. Bnw people only puruse their immediate appetites, sex, and consumerism. The idea of the state using technology to keep tabs on its people. Creates wealth, but also makes a lot of people poor. Vast majority of people in cities were poor. About 30% of london"s population was classified as very poor . Political ideas develop: socialism, as result of the poverty. Coming together of workers to protest the working conditions. For the most part, the working poor remained loyal to conservative party. They were religious, was against marx because marx was atheist.
