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Topic: Fordist Societies
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DrConway
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posted 03 April 2002 02:32 PM
Ford the car guy. Interesting you should say this, because I'm reminded of Brave New World which deifies Ford by realigning the calendar to have years before and after Ford.Why Ford, more generally? He popularized the idea of industrial mass-production and the hitherto-not-quite-fully-applied Taylorist concept of breaking down production into a series of tightly timed steps. Your thought images seem to come from the once-popular idea that extending such a mechanistic view of the universe onto all of society would produce a humanity regulated by a common rhythm and by a common set of ideas. The closest any country ever got to this, I think, was the 1940s and 1950s in the USA. [ April 03, 2002: Message edited by: DrConway ]
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