Feb 9 2011 9:50 pm
It is plain that fragmentation or specialism as a technique of achieving security under tyranny and oppression of any kind has an attendant danger.
Perfect adaptation to any environment is achieved by a total channeling of energies and vital force that amounts to a kind of static terminus for a creature.
Even slight changes in the environment of the very well adjusted find them without any resource to meet new challenge. Such is the plight of the representatives of “conventional wisdom” in any society.
Their entire stake of security and status is in a single form of acquired knowledge, so that innovation is for them not novelty but annihilation.
- Understanding Media, M. McLuhan
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