The Craft Reader by Norbert Weiner
Cybernetics – the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.
Human beings love control. At least I think so. When we feel like we lose control, we subconsciously seek out ways to get even more. In the reading, Weiner defines control as a way of sending messages to change behaviors of the recipient. After spending way too much time on definitions and explanations, he finally reaches the most powerful point of the chapter…that we shouldn’t exploit humans for power and control…the inhuman use of human beings. A point I wholeheartedly agree with.
Creative Process Journal 
I had a similar experience with this reading. It was sort of dense, and took awhile for me to even (maybe) decipher it. Then to just drop in this brief commentary about the exploitation of humans by other humans kind of caught me off guard!
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