Jerry Mander

(1936–2023) Sociologist United States

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Jerry Mander was a sociologist from the United States, best known for The case against the global economy.

Quick Facts About Jerry Mander

Born: May 1, 1936
Died: April 11, 2023
Nationality: United States
Profession: Sociologist
Notable works: The case against the global economy
Known for: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

About Jerry Mander

Jerry Irwin Mander was an American activist and author in San Francisco, known for his use of advertising for progressive and ecological causes and for his 1978 book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jerry Mander

The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it.

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Awareness

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The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier…

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Aspect

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Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level:…

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Activity

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All employees are obliged to act in concert, to behave in accordance with corporate form and corporate law. If someone attempted to…

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Behave

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The program is only the excuse to get you to watch the advertising. Without the ads there would be no programs. Advertising…

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Ads

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It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has…

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Accidents

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Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions

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Evolution

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Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

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Aesthetic

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