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   Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 21:09:29 JST Strypey

   If you want to understand what's going on in the world, read Orwell. The telescreens and ubiquitous closed circuit cameras are only the obvious dystopian realisations of 1984.

   NewSpeak? All around us (eg "Brexit", "PREFU"). State censorship enforced by corporate media owners has made each DataFarm platform into its own Minitrue, even web search has its own memory hole. Ideas declared thoughtcrime. Examples of Two Minutes Hate abound; Corbyn, Stallman, Greenwald, David Roviks, Michel Bauwens...

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     Simply Simon (salty@mastodon.nz)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 21:09:27 JST Simply Simon

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     @strypey Orwell *and* Huxley. They were both right, and both wrong. We have telescreens and Big Brother, but we also have soma.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 21:10:25 JST 翠星石

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     @strypey Maybe, but that didn't stop the proprietary master at taking their favorite parts from each book and implementing them.
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     Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 21:10:27 JST Strypey

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     > Orwell and Huxley

     They were describing the same society at different stages of development. The technology in the society of Brave New World is obviously a few decades ahead of that of INGSOC. Orwell's critique was about where we *are*, whereas Huxley was concerned with where we might be going, but for the grace...