Another screamer. I really like the idea about Assange as well as Gandhi, MLK etc. As much as i love Julian and regularly hold him up as an example, i too am often susceptible to lionise past figures more.
That trait however isn’t coming from overt propaganda these days. I think it is something baked into our society at all levels through our homelife, education, books, stories etc.
I actually think the dystopia is even more perfect than this. All the leaders and psychopaths and John Bolton’s of this world are also products of this system. With a set of norms and societal systems such as we have, that have been building and echoing all through our history, some parts have become such entrenched, foundational ideas in society and our psyches that it’s an expected outcome that a small number of total nutcases like that exist, and behave as they do. And sure, linguistically we have to refer to those levels of society as they, because they are so far removed from the common experience, but that’s not to exclude them from the conditioning, or label them as free. A bit like Chomsky’s observation of Andrew Marr.
It’s such a successful dystopia, it’s self sustaining now - almost the perfect model of perpetual motion.
Another screamer. I really like the idea about Assange as well as Gandhi, MLK etc. As much as i love Julian and regularly hold him up as an example, i too am often susceptible to lionise past figures more.
That trait however isn’t coming from overt propaganda these days. I think it is something baked into our society at all levels through our homelife, education, books, stories etc.
I actually think the dystopia is even more perfect than this. All the leaders and psychopaths and John Bolton’s of this world are also products of this system. With a set of norms and societal systems such as we have, that have been building and echoing all through our history, some parts have become such entrenched, foundational ideas in society and our psyches that it’s an expected outcome that a small number of total nutcases like that exist, and behave as they do. And sure, linguistically we have to refer to those levels of society as they, because they are so far removed from the common experience, but that’s not to exclude them from the conditioning, or label them as free. A bit like Chomsky’s observation of Andrew Marr.
It’s such a successful dystopia, it’s self sustaining now - almost the perfect model of perpetual motion.
Now here’s Johnny with the weather.....
A quote attributed to one of the Sex Pistols goes as follows: "Kill your idols, before they can embarrass you."
I suppose the dead have less opportunity to cause embarrassment.