Estelle Platini
estelle@techhub.social
<p>I discuss influence, beliefs, entanglement, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/adultism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>adultism</span></a>.<br />(I purposely do not propagate news.)</p><p>Banner: sepia photo of a 26-year-old facing the camera – Hannah Arendt, Europe, 1933</p>
Posts
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Post #4136937
How healthcare became official and a luxury – something that the rich elite had recourse to, and which everyone else had to do without: https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/on-medieval-healthcare-and-american-barbarism/ #midwives #monks #medieval #healthcare #Janega @DrEleanorJanega@mastodon.world #history #sociology @ethics@a.gup.pe @sociology@a.gup.pe @socialpsych@a.gup.pe #medicine #physicians #pandemic #ModernTimes #modernity #modern #MiddleAges #Europe
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Post #3838774
“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they wou...
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Post #1672189
For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology, but the follower. https://rmi.org/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2023/06/rmi_renewable_revolution.pdf #tech #innovation #renewables #solar #wind #energy #technique #technology #china #oilAndGas