WriterGuy2021

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Remembering Huxley’s Brave New World(kenosis.one)
3 points by WriterGuy2021 4y ago|1 comments
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
The U.S. isn't an entity capable of consideration. There's some wizard of oz style trickery going on here. If you pull back the curtain, you'll find a gaggle of corrupt bureaucrats pulling levers that control the illusion of
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
More unqualified leisure time isn't what most people want. Most people want meaningful connections to others. Watching T.V. for eight hours isn't going to make people feel good. Feeling connected and maintaining a sense of belongi
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
There are many more things competing for people's time and attention. Also, nationalism is waning in many places due to globalism. The Olympics is inherently a nationalistic event. If you don't buy into these artificial divisions
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
Uh, what? How did making blacks sit at the back of the bus improve economic efficiency? It may be argued that many legal systems, far from being a boon to economic productivity, actually hindered growth in many nations due to their use in o
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
"An astrobiologist says non-fungible tokens do not bode well for our species’s future. " This is a historical subhead.
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
I don't know what's going on and I'm scared.
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
Freedom is slavery... We're not all in the same boat. If you want to change the system, you're going to have to fight the people invested in the status quo. Most people aren't interested in the "greater good," even
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
> This is the kind of things that show how inviable is a market-led economy without proper regulation. The medical industry is highly regulated. I can't just go open up a practice giving people stiches. I would need a whole slew of
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
Stop using YouTube. Support smaller services while you still can. We don't need to keep feeding these monolithic beasts.
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
It's a signal that people don't like what they are hearing. If the propaganda aligns with their interests, the majority will like it. It's not a good signal for gauging propaganda in my opinion.
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Reviewing 1984 in 2021(psydef.substack.com)
6 points by WriterGuy2021 5y ago|0 comments
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
Maybe I'm on the autistic spectrum or something. That's why I gravitated to programming.
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
What a nightmare. How could we let it get to this point? People that have no direct interest in our well being are informing our worldview.
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
I have a book recommendation for you: book of Ephesians in the bible. "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedne
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
I feel a very strong low tide in the general publics withdrawal of their support of many institutions. Where is all that energy previously occupied going to go?
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
Brave New World has become more than a novel now...it's a symbol in the cultural lexicon. Another example is the use of "orwellian" as an adjective by people that have never read 1984. I agree that his other works demonstrate
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
Despite all the insightful intellectual back and forth on this thread, this is my favorite comment.
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
That's a very good point... and are we really awake when we watch T.V.? Or are we in some type of suggestive state? I wrote the above and then did some googling. Found this article: https://www.fastcompany.com/3060491&#
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
If he had predicted that the primary means of conditioning the public would be T.V. instead of hypnopedia, there would be no doubt that we're living in something like BNW -- or at least one of its spiritual progeny.
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
> dulltopain Huxley ultimately believes, as all artists believe, that a creative life is the only life worth living. Suffering and conflict is the fuel of all higher pursuits. In Brave New World, people are drained of this fuel. Life is
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
In Huxley's dystopia, all friction is eliminated. Friction is what makes people wake up. These "unbearable limits," i.e., friction, would not exist in Brave New World.
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
Ultimately, I don't think it's a choice. If you fit well into your social role, then you aren't going to seek "the truth." Bernard is more aware of his surroundings because he is not suited to his role. Helmholtz is
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
What motivation do people have to see the world as it is? Billions of people believe they will never die because Heaven is on the other side of this world. As Nietzsche wrote: "Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!" It's n
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Remembering Huxley's “Brave New World”(psydef.substack.com)
85 points by WriterGuy2021 5y ago|82 comments
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
"The Genealogy of Morals" by Nietzsche with the reminder that I am using "violence" in the way he uses "power." Power is just the civilized word for violence. And this is what I consider to be a cipher from his
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
So... just to remind ourselves how we got here. The parent comment was a poster talking about how his wife paid no mind to the potential threats posed by the big tech surveillance state. I then made a few comments explaining my thoughts on
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
Now just imagine saying all these things as a mad man stands before you with a knife. Suddenly the world becomes more real than it ever has been and all these abstract things you say to your friends in cyberspace become utter nonsense as t
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
This is just so ridiculous because "rational argument" is notoriously difficult to define. Descartes believed logic itself was a form of rhetoric. I forget where he wrote this comment, but its context included a very interesting d
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by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
Ever since I read Boorstin's book "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America," everything looks like a pseudo-event to me. Clearly Facebook is being thrown under the bus. Any one of us could say the things she is saying,

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