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Saturday Matinee: The Prisoner: Arrival
Perfect Pilots: The Prisoner “Arrival” By John Bernardy Source: 25 Years Later A man resigns from his previous post. He is followed and taken captive into a surreal resort town. He tries his best to escape over and over but … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Saturday Matinee, society, Video
Tagged Arrival, Dystopia, panopticon, Patrick McGoohan, surveillance state, The Prisoner, the Village
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The 2020 Election Bamboozle: We Are All Victims of the Deep State’s Con Game
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “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 … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, media, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, Deep State, Duopoly, Dystopia, Election 2020, fake democracy, government propaganda, panopticon, Patrick McGoohan, police state, Privacy, Social Media, surveillance state, The Prisoner, voting
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Minority Report (2002) Esoteric Analysis
By Jay Dyer Source: Jay’s Analysis Spielberg’s Minority Report is now an important film to revisit. Based on the short story by visionary science fiction author Phillip K. Dick, Spielberg’s film version implements an important number of predictive programming elements … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Film, NSA, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1984, A.I., Afghanistan, algorithmic tracking, Apple, DARPA, Dystopia, elites, Google, Minority Report, NSA, panopticon, Phillip K. Dick, Philosophy, police state, Precrime, Science fiction, Silicon Valley, Siri, Steven Spielberg, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Ubik
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Neoliberal Defenestration and the Overton Window
By Stephen Martin Source: CounterPunch ‘It is difficult to get Artificial Intelligence to understand something, when the Research and Development funding it depends upon its not understanding it’– Paraphrase of Upton Sinclair. defenestration (diːˌfɛnɪˈstreɪʃən) n the act of throwing a person or thing out … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, Militarization, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, automation, Biodiversity, Corporatism, Economics, empire, Free Market, Hegemony, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Overton Window, panopticon, Philosophy, politics, Robotics, Utilitarianism
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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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Zucktown, USA
Facebook, Amazon, and Google are reviving the ill-fated “company towns” of the Gilded Age By Julianne Tveten Source: The Baffler EARLIER THIS YEAR IN SILICON VALLEY, a phalanx of six-figure-earning Facebook engineers confronted Mark Zuckerberg about subsidizing their extortionate rents. Meanwhile, the contract … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged big data, Company Towns, Dystopia, Facebook, Housing, Jeff Bezos, Labor, Mark Zuckerberg, Oligarchy, panopticon, Plutocracy, Tech Industry, Technocracy
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Globalisation: Hyperstition, Surveillance, and the Empire of Reason
By S.C. Hickman Source: Techno Occulture Edmund Berger in his essay Underground Streams speaking of various tactics used by the Situationists, Autonomia, and the Carnivalesque: “Like the Situationists the Autonomia would engage with the tradition of the Carnivalesque alongside a Marxist political … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Hackers, hacktivism, media, Neoliberalism, news, Philosophy, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, war
Tagged Activists, anonymous, Autonomia, Chaos, Corporate Globalization, Deep State, Dystopia, Globalism, Globalization, Hackers, Hacktivists, Hegemony, Hyperrealism, Mass Media, National Security State, Neoliberalism, panopticon, Philosophy, politics, Post Moderrnism, resistance, simulacra, Situationists, Social Movements, Sociology, surveillance, surveillance state, technosphere, war
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Media, Mind-Control, & Meditation: Plato’s E-Cave Panopticon and Beyond
By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) Source: Axis of Logic “Relax,” said the night man, ”We are programmed to receive. You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave!” – The Eagles, from “Hotel California” In Plato’s Allegory of … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Economics, Election Fraud, Empire, Environment, Film, GMOs, Hackers, hacktivism, History, media, news, Philosophy, propaganda, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Adam Curtis, bernie sanders, corporate media, corporate news, DNC, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, HyperNormalization, Managed Perception, Meditation, panopticon, Philosophy, Plato, Standing Rock, surveillance state, technology, WikiLeaks
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Desultory Heroics 