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Tag Archives: Aldous Huxley
The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously: the fiction of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, elites, FBI, freedom of speech, Law, media, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged 1984, A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, Animal Farm, Big Brother, Big Government, Big Tech, CIA, Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, FBI, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Newspeak, NSA, OldSpeak, Philip K. Dick, police state, propaganda, Ray Bradbury, society, surveillance state, Technocracy, Thought Police
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The Doors of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything
By Tim O’Shea Source: Information Clearing House Aldous Huxley’s inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Aldous Huxley, corporate news, culture, Dissimulation, Distraction, Edward L. Bernays, Entertainment, GMOs, iraq, Mainstream Media, media, news, Perception, Perception Management, PR, propaganda, Psy-ops, Public Opinion, science, society, Spin, Sports, Television, war, war on terror
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Whose Dystopia Is It Anyway?
Reason writers debate which fictional dystopia best predicted our current moment. By Mike Riggs, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Todd Krainin, Nick Gillespie, Jesse Walker, Robby Soave, Eric Boehm, Christian Britschgi, Peter Suderman & Brian Doherty Source: Reason With social media platforms seemingly … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Back to the Future II, Being John Malkovich, Brazil, Edgar Allan Poe, Ender's Game, Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell, Love in the Ruins, Neal Stephenson, Orson Scott Card, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Robert Zemeckis, Science fiction, Sleeper, Snow Crash, Speculative Fiction, Terry Gilliam, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The Past Through Tomorrow, Walker Percy, Woody Allen
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Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
(Editor’s note: on this 36th anniversary of the passing of Philip K. Dick, it seems an appropriate time to note the relevance of his work to our current dystopia as Henry Farrell does in the following essay. Unfortunately the author … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, consciousness, Conspiracy, culture, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Empire, Hackers, media, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Algorithms, automation, big data, Consciousness, Dystopia, Fake News, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, PKD, politics, propaganda, Reality, sci-fi, Science fiction, Social Media, Sociology, technology
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Freedom Is a Myth: We Are All Prisoners of the Police State’s Panopticon Village
“We’re run by the Pentagon, we’re run by Madison Avenue, we’re run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don’t revolt we’ll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche…. As long as … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, conditioning, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, History, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged 1984, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Deep State, Dystopia, George Orwell, Government, group think, Jeff Sessions, mass marketing, Michel Foucault, Neil Postman, panopticon, Patrick McGoohan, Philosophy, police state, surveillance state, The Prisoner, Totalitarianism, weaponization
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As Babies are Prescribed Pharmaceuticals, Have We Reached Dystopia?
By Joe Jarvis Source: The Daily Bell Would you let a five-year-old smoke a joint? I certainly hope not. Yet that would probably be less harmful than loading kids up on pharmaceuticals. Currently, over a million American children UNDER SIX … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, Aldous Huxley, Big Brother, Big Pharma, Brave New World, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Education, Fluoride, George Orwell, Over-medication, Pharmaceuticals, propaganda, Public Health, social control, society, Soma
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You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Aldous Huxley, Blade Runner, Brazil, Children of Men, Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Minority Report, Philip K. Dick, Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes, police state, Ray Bradbury, Science fiction, Soylent Green, Stanley Kubrick, surveillance state, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Matrix, They Live, THX 1138, Totalitarianism, V For Vendetta
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Four Kinds of Dystopia
By Darren Allen Source: ExpressiveEgg.org The twentieth century saw four basic visions of hell on earth, or dystopia. These were: Orwellian. Rule by autocratic totalitarian people, party or elite group, limitation of choice, repression of speech and repression of minorities, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bureaucracy, Dystopia, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Newspeak, Philip K. Dick, PKD, society, Totalitarianism, Virtuality
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