“Why has our inner life become so impoverished and empty, and why has our outer life become so exorbitant, and why in its subjective satisfactions even more empty? Why have we become technological gods and moral devils, scientific supermen, and esthetic idiots—idiots, that is, primarily in the Greek sense of being wholly private persons, incapable of communicating with each other or understanding each other?” that quote was by Lewis Mumford and this is the Rocketeer coming at you with Podcast #62.
Please note: I have several books by Lewis Mumford and two of the three give his date of death differently. The one I was referring to in the podcast, Art and Technics has his date of death as 1979. However, another book, Technics and Human Development gives his date of death as 1990. I’m still not 100% sure which is correct so have arbitarily chosen the date of 1979. If it was 1990 some of my comments about the timing of Cyberpunk will be off by a couple of years.
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