CCW Associate, Thomas Flichy as published a new book, The Psychic Slaves of the Internet.

The Psychic Slaves of the Internet
The magnetism exerted by the Internet on our brains should not be attributed to the alleged technical genius of Californian computer scientists. In reality, the power of magnetization of the screens on our mind is due to the rational exploitation of the discoveries made on animal and human conditioning since the second half of the 19th century. It is indeed the intelligent exploitation of the classics that has allowed social engineering to radically divert our attention from what it was programmed for: to identify imminent dangers in order to protect the group or the tribe, to focus in a sustainable manner on an object, to enter into communication with others by listening to the multiple languages of the body or to scrutinize the mysteries situated beyond the rapid flow of earthly life. Whether we like it or not, the global internet is thriving on the reductio ad bestiam of mankind. We will therefore be treated with as much respect as Pavlov's dog, John Watson's rat or Frédéric Skinner's pigeon. However, a huge improvement has been made since the interwar period: the Internet being constantly supplied by our personal tastes, its social engineers can happily direct us to the websites and virtual spaces revealing our part of animality. The deprivation of the classics relating to the conditioning of animals and men is therefore at the root of our psychic slavery. This has been carefully orchestrated by an academic engineering, depriving students from the only intellectual tools allowing them to grow: silent reading and disputatio, to replace them with ideological conditioning and of hyperspecialization. The empty box created, fed by research centres where counterfeiters meticulously construct truncated sciences finds itself the natural ally of digital education.