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Restructuring society through technology
Woody: “If you read or talked to people who constructed the video machines or to those who discovered processes accidentally doing experimental work, they reported this immediate identification with the image. And so along with these other conditions — alternate lifestyle, anti-war movement, easier economical set ups for producing these machines and for living — this no-cash economy was really something unique, and our whole generation took great advantage of it. Suddenly there was the possibility of changing this society, not only through drugs and communal life and anti-establishment movements, but also through technology. And there were other advocates like Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, and Timothy Leary who pumped this ideological stuff into the whole situation. So the utopia, a restructuring of society in which the exploitation and evils would be moderated, became possible.”
Chris Hill, “Interview with Woody Vašulka, 1992” in The Squealer, Buffalo, New York (1995); link: https://vasulka.org/archive/4-25/Squealer(5097).pdf.