Finally, if you haven't already done so, you might want to check out Neil Postman's wonderfully readable, Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman was easily the most readable of the Marshall McLuhan acolytes.
Thanks again for commenting, Gail. Much appreciated. All the best to you and yours...
Jeff, if you’re unfamiliar with Mike Wallace’s 1958 Huxley interview, it’s a must see.Chilling. Wallace was horrid. Patronizing, mocking… the poster child for elitism. Fortunately. Huxley was unperturbed., engrossed in thought, he laid out the most intricately detailed forewarning of a very near future. He spoke with such urgency, lost in thought-truly terrified.There is no way to rationalize his prescience. Prophetic. I’m not hyper religious,but believe in a Maker. The Divine. Ergo, I do not believe in coincidence.Long story, but Huxley laid out a pattern of events, the hows and whys, warned of increasing technological advances, AI, the “Ultimate Revolution”, transhumanism. To get there, we’d be constantly distracted. Pandemics( created), climate events,war, pharmaceutical/medical tyranny,/manipulated food shortages, economic collapse , political/social divide , societal collapse… predicated by propaganda. Convincing half the citizenry that the other half was so repugnant as to be less than human. Seem familiar? The “ unvaccinated”. “ This is a Pandemic of the unvaccinated”.Transactivism…MAGA Republicans are far Rightwing racist,, violent White Nationalist anti-vax sets, science deniers, insurrectionists, antisemitic, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, conspiracy theorist spreaders of misinformation, semi-fascists. Sayeth the decomposing experimental Guinea pig replete with AR contact lenses and aviators. Standing afore a historic building awashed in blood red lighting. With two armed soldiers flanking the doors. Biden was wildily ranting,and gesticulating as though Hitler’s understudy. The lighting had an odd banner-like void giving the appearance of a Wolfsangel. Leni Riefenstahl would be kvelling. Huxley described this coercive , exploitative frenzied ratcheting up of explosive hatred and scapegoating. Mob violence, perfectly orchestrated global media bombarding every nation with the same mantra. Hypnotizing the masses. Surveillance, digitalization, and a civilization so dependent they will welcome their servitude. A global coup made possible by a dumbed down, obedient reduced population , happily ceding it’s freedom to a cabal of elites Mega-corporate multinational monopolists, Pharma, financiers, powerful ,corrupt political leaders forming a One World Central Government, digital currency, the tyrannical technocrats ruling over mutant, sterile serfs. Fascist Technocracy.
Is life imitating art.? Huxley’s opus, Brave New World was fiction.He feared it was becoming reality. He was correct.Event 201/Agenda 21/The Great Reset/Build Back Better,/WEF/UN / NATO/EU/China:Globalism… Brave New World, not the Communist Manifesto, not Mein Kampf is the playbook!
Thank you for your well-considered and equally well-penned comment, Gail. Please check my feature video -- Brave New Digital World: the Revelation -- here: https://open.substack.com/pub/qolrm/p/brave-new-digital-world?r=7hc45&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web.
You can find my more current thoughts on our apparent willingness to ape dystopian art in the Rise of Huxwell, here: https://open.substack.com/pub/qolrm/p/the-rise-of-huxwell?r=7hc45&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web.
Finally, if you haven't already done so, you might want to check out Neil Postman's wonderfully readable, Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman was easily the most readable of the Marshall McLuhan acolytes.
Thanks again for commenting, Gail. Much appreciated. All the best to you and yours...
Jeff
Jeff, if you’re unfamiliar with Mike Wallace’s 1958 Huxley interview, it’s a must see.Chilling. Wallace was horrid. Patronizing, mocking… the poster child for elitism. Fortunately. Huxley was unperturbed., engrossed in thought, he laid out the most intricately detailed forewarning of a very near future. He spoke with such urgency, lost in thought-truly terrified.There is no way to rationalize his prescience. Prophetic. I’m not hyper religious,but believe in a Maker. The Divine. Ergo, I do not believe in coincidence.Long story, but Huxley laid out a pattern of events, the hows and whys, warned of increasing technological advances, AI, the “Ultimate Revolution”, transhumanism. To get there, we’d be constantly distracted. Pandemics( created), climate events,war, pharmaceutical/medical tyranny,/manipulated food shortages, economic collapse , political/social divide , societal collapse… predicated by propaganda. Convincing half the citizenry that the other half was so repugnant as to be less than human. Seem familiar? The “ unvaccinated”. “ This is a Pandemic of the unvaccinated”.Transactivism…MAGA Republicans are far Rightwing racist,, violent White Nationalist anti-vax sets, science deniers, insurrectionists, antisemitic, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, conspiracy theorist spreaders of misinformation, semi-fascists. Sayeth the decomposing experimental Guinea pig replete with AR contact lenses and aviators. Standing afore a historic building awashed in blood red lighting. With two armed soldiers flanking the doors. Biden was wildily ranting,and gesticulating as though Hitler’s understudy. The lighting had an odd banner-like void giving the appearance of a Wolfsangel. Leni Riefenstahl would be kvelling. Huxley described this coercive , exploitative frenzied ratcheting up of explosive hatred and scapegoating. Mob violence, perfectly orchestrated global media bombarding every nation with the same mantra. Hypnotizing the masses. Surveillance, digitalization, and a civilization so dependent they will welcome their servitude. A global coup made possible by a dumbed down, obedient reduced population , happily ceding it’s freedom to a cabal of elites Mega-corporate multinational monopolists, Pharma, financiers, powerful ,corrupt political leaders forming a One World Central Government, digital currency, the tyrannical technocrats ruling over mutant, sterile serfs. Fascist Technocracy.
Is life imitating art.? Huxley’s opus, Brave New World was fiction.He feared it was becoming reality. He was correct.Event 201/Agenda 21/The Great Reset/Build Back Better,/WEF/UN / NATO/EU/China:Globalism… Brave New World, not the Communist Manifesto, not Mein Kampf is the playbook!