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The End of Reality?
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain In 1888, the year before he went insane, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the following in Twilight of the Idols: We have got rid of the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1984, Art, coronavirus, corporate media, Covid-19, Doublethink, fascism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Friedrich Nietzsche, Futurism, George Orwell, Mathew Arnold, media, Media Literacy, Neil Postman, Paul Virilio, Peter Koenig, Philosophy, propaganda, Roberto Calasso, surveillance state, techno-fascism, Technocracy
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THE IMPORTANCE OF ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
By John Scales Avery Source: Blacklisted News The superficiality of today’s television Social critic Neil Postman contrasted the futures predicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World in the foreword of his 1985 book “Amusing Ourselves to Death”. He wrote: … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, alternative media, American History, Amusing Ourselves To Death, corporate news, Dystopia, Education, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Neil Postman, Newspapers, Oligarchy, Television, war, William Randolph Hearst
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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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