Sacramento Union, 11 February 1912 By A. J. EISSING. The French government employes 120,000 women. Agriculture supports 250,000,000 persons in India. Kingston, Can., police want their pay raised from $50 to $60 a month. The Barbers’ association of Quebec asks the legislature to provide that all barbers be licensed. Hamilton, Ont., bricklayers want to increase … [Read more…]
Daily Alta California, 20 November 1852 An Extract from the Lost Book of Gas, Ser. BEING A PORTION OF THE HAND-BOOK OF FLOUR MILLERISM. To my friend Blackstone. Esq. this tribute is inscribed by the author. ” Monumenturn ore perennius.”— ” Sua si bona novit.” 1. And it came to pass that in tbe city … [Read more…]
Mariposa Gazette, 23 May 1914 Ernest Camin had on exhibition in his store this week, a quantity of live fresh water snails raised on the old Camin ranch in Cathey’s Valley. The “seed” was planted in a spring on the ranch by Mr. Camin’s father who brought them from France a number of years ago. … [Read more…]
On Saturday, June 27, at the County Sanitary Landfill on Mecham Road off south Stony Point Road between Petaluma and Cotati, “Recycletown” will be officially inaugurated by Garbage Reincarnation, Inc., the Sonoma County Community Recycling Center, and by the Sonoma County Public Works Department. Recycletown is a place where citizens can bring used oil, paint, … [Read more…]
I’ve loaded excerpts from John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing”, Jacques Ellul’s “The Technological Society” and Gary Panter’s very original “Rozztox Manifesto” to stimulate some thinking about advertising and its effects on modern culture. The use of the techniques of propaganda to sell products, ideas, and ways of life, we’ve allowed ourselves to be manipulated by … [Read more…]
… in a technological society “the human being is no longer in any sense the agent of choice… He is a device for recording effects and results obtained by various techniques.” In the technological society individuals have meaning and value only to the extent they service instruments. Jacques Ellul, 1964