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Once the harmony of a city is broken, its inhabitants lose the habit of loving it; they soil and degrade it. But it is not possible to insert an added culture into a degraded environment. The result is "a shapeless mush of a divided culture, piled up in this cultural concentration camp." --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
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