Avoid the barrages of electronic culture

 

Charlotte Dworshak

from Stewart Brand bio Whole Earth

Abbey, for Brand it was a way of being solitary and-for a bit, at least-away from all human contact. Now, spending a week in the desert largely alone, Brand thought about the great technological strides that America had made in the past century and decided that he had no idea what the country was "progressing" toward. He concluded that there was no meaning in technological advancement as an end in itself. He had been reading McLuhan, and here, far from the noise of the city, he realized that Indian time is livable only to the extent that it was possible to avoid or transcend the barrages of electronic culture. Things were becoming clearer.  p 110