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.
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.
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.
Slowly?
Yes, slowly. This has been in the works for decades, and people like myself have been screaming about it and promptly ignored
it is really exhausting and not worth the effort.
Fuck going quietly into that bad night. We can’t do much, but what little we can, we must.
Yeah, since at least Reagan.
Orwell was either clairvoyant and had Divine visions of the future or he was a time traveler. I’m convinced.
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.