Belfast ... as uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertai...n you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The site of the true bottomless financial pit is the toy store. It's amazing how much a few pieces of plastic and paper will sell ...for if the purchasers are parents or grandparent, especially when the manufacturers claim their product improves a child's intellectual or physical development.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than peop...le supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self- employment and artistic autonomy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You go back and tell them that the New York State Supreme Court rules there's no Santa Claus. It's all over the papers. The kids r...ead it and they don't hang up their stockings. Now what happens to all the toys that are supposed to be in those stockings? Nobody buys them. The toy manufacturers are going to like that. So they have to lay off a lot of their employees. Union employees. Now you've got the C.I.O. and the A.F. of L. against you, and they're going to adore you for it. And they're gonna say it with votes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,--mere Jonathans. We are provinc...ial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were the ...occasion for both their pain and their power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...the promise of automation seemed to exert a magnetic force, a seduction that promised to fulfill a dream of perfect control and... heal egos wounded by their needs for certainty. The dream contains the image of "people serving a smart machine," but in the shadow of the dream, human beings have lost the experience of critical judgment that would allow them to no longer simply respond but to know better than, to question, to say no.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of thos...e other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »