Conversely, an opportunity for meaningful, civil discourse is being squandered and is drowned out by the noise of people talking endlessly about only themselves. Some go further, looking beyond political impotence. Tom Sherman, in a post to the Nettime list, notes how parents, police, advertisers and marketing agencies have all come together in a tacit sort of way to co-operate via broadcast technology as a means for maintaining social control. According to Sherman, this tacit form of co-operation revolves around the need to stimulate and maintain consumer demand and economic activity. The negative effect of exploiting children via broadcast technologies in order to satisfy the economic, social, labour, and political aspects of a neo-liberalism can already be seen in certain parts of the world.
Japanese society is one such example, which going through a transformation phase.
Most observers agree that this phase is, in many ways, ending in failure. All Rights Reserved.