The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth … - Paul Virilio

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When we start to believe stories about how life works that come from anywhere else but within, we have set ourselves up for a crash course in getting a spiritual wake-up call!

Paul Virilio

The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet.

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When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. . . Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

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Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

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Virtuality will destroy reality.

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These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes more powerful than reality will be the day of the big accident. Mankind never experienced such an extraordinary accident.

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The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.

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