• tomiant@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    If only! We won’t be that lucky. They will just revert to feudalism, with absolute AI surveillance and thought control. Orwell was right, he knew. I mean we all knew. We just sat like frogs in the water slowly getting boiled.

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      3 days ago

      Orwell was either clairvoyant and had Divine visions of the future or he was a time traveler. I’m convinced.

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        2 days ago

        He was intimately familiar with the Soviet modus operandi. What he talked about was a reality in Eastern Europe for many decades. My own family way back when told me that every apartment had a speaker installed in the living room which would spout propaganda- you could turn the volume off but you could never turn the radio off.

        I’ve said for a long time that the USA has been going more and more towards a Stalinist society, and I stand by that claim.