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World Smash a Computer Day of Action -by A.F.R.O.D.I.S.I.A.C
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24 Feb 24 Feb 24 Feb
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(Taken from: The Future Now, issue 9, June 1994 - published in
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Brisbane, Australia)
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Almost everything we touch, eat and do nowadays is affected in some
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way by computers. It gets harder and harder to resist the
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techno-onslaught in our lives. Time to turn off the terminal, crush
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computers and stop dating your data.
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It's not that computers stress people out in their jobs. It's not
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that our technologies rule our society, and is only getting worse as
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years pass. It's not that we have elevated computers from the ranks
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of absurdity, to novelty, to necessity. It's not that there is never
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any public debate over whether we want our society to be completely
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transformed by the latest technology. It's not because of the
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bulldozers levelling our homes to make way for the coming
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information super-highway. It's not because the manufacture of
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chips, printed circuit boards, magnetic media, and other high-tech
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products uses some of the most dangerous materials known to
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humanity. It's not that the magnetic fields found within a radius of
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about two feet from the terminal is causing operators to die from
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cancer. It's not that computers distort reality. It's not that
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computers are dangerously impersonal. It's not that computers are
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actually antithetical to information sources that traditional
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societies use: personal observation, sensory interaction, historical
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and geographic contexts, and teachings about the human-wildlife
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relationship that have been passed down from previous generations.
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It's not even that computer errors can be catastrophic.
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It's all of this. It's that this is sold to us as a leisure, even
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Paradise. It's that we sell our lives every day to build this
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network which is aimed like a pistol at our hearts. That we daily
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build our own prison, our oh-so-modern hell.
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EVERY FACTORY A PRISON! EVERY OIL TANKER A SPILL! EVERY T.V. 10,000
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VALIUM! EVERY OFFICE A MORGUE! AND EVERY COMPUTER A TIME-BOMB AT
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YOUR FINGERTIPS.
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FUCK CAPITALIST ORGANIZATION
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FUCK COMPUTERS FUCK DEATH
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