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Tag Archives: Philip K. Dick
Cyberpunk is Dead
By John Semley Source: The Baffler “It was an embarrasser; what did I want? I hadn’t thought that far ahead. Me, caught without a program!” —Bruce Bethke, “Cyberpunk” (1983) Held annually in a downtown L.A. convention center so massive and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, media, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Akira, Blade Runner, corporatocracy, culture, Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2077, Cyborg, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Dystopia, E3, Japanese Cinema, Johnny Mnemonic, Katsuhiro Otomo, Keanu Reeves, media, Neal Stephenson, Neuromancer, Philip K. Dick, PKD, Science fiction, Shinya Tsukamoto, Snow Crash, society, Technocracy, technology, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Total Recall, William Gibson
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It’s Just An Illusion – The Management of Perception
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times ɪˈluːʒ(ə)n/ noun an instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience. a deceptive appearance or impression. a false idea or belief. We live in a society in which spurious realities … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, consciousness, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Consciousness, corporate media, Critical Thinking, culture, Fake News, Illusion, Information, Information War, Internet, media, Media Centralization, Misinformation, Narrative, news, Perception, Philip K. Dick, propaganda, psychology, Reality, RussiaGate, Social Media, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology
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The Varieties of Psychonautic Experience: Erik Davis’s ‘High Weirdness’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies By Erik Davis Strange Attractor Press/MIT Press, 2019 Two months ago, I devoured Erik Davis’s magisterial 2019 book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, History, media, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1970s, Consciousness, Cybernetics, drugs, Entheogens, Erik Davis, Esoterica, High Weirdness, history, Neuroscience, parapsychology, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, Psychedelics, Robert Anton Wilson, Science fiction, Shamansism, spirituality, Technocracy, Terence McKenna, the Seventies, Visionary Experience
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THE OMNIPRESENT SURVEILLANCE STATE: ORWELL’S FUTURE IS OUR PRESENT REALITY
By Mac Slavo Source: SHTFplan.com The Orwellian dystopia of thought control and an omnipresent surveillance state has become our reality. George Orwell’s book 1984, although meant as fiction, has turned out to be an incredible prediction of our future. The … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged 1984, Big Brother, Big Government, Big Tech, Dystopia, George Orwell, Militarization, Minority Report, Philip K. Dick, police state, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Totalitarianism
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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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Saturday Matinee: Radio Free Albemuth
In light of Philip K. Dick’s birthday tomorrow (he would have been 90), it’s an appropriate time to visit (or revisit) the film adaptation of his posthumously published novel “Radio Free Albemuth”. Being a longtime PKD fan and one of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged Cult film, Dystopia, John Alan Simon, Philip K. Dick, PKD, Radio Free Albemuth, Science fiction
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Nightmare Fuel, A Conspiracy Crisis
Part One: Mind-Control, Thought Implantation, and Telepathy Tech By Equanimous Rex Source: Modern Mythology When technology can be produced that mimics diseases such as schizophrenia, or phenomena such as telepathy, how do we discern fact from fiction? When our memories are … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, consciousness, Conspiracy, culture, Dystopia, Law, Philosophy, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Buddhism, CIA, Consciousness, conspiracy, DARPA, Dystopia, False Memory, Gas-lighting, Heinrich Kramer, Julian Huxley, LSD. Frank Olson, Mind, mind control, MK Ultra, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, psychology, spirituality, Steve Titus, technology, Telepathy
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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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