In my time two books have stood out. The first, The Micro Millenium, was a glimpse into the future of computers and tech, and if I'd paid it heed, I would be a very rich man today.
The second, Killing Time, by the brilliant Caleb Carr, predicted just the sort of chilling manipulation of information that is occurring today with our techn…
In my time two books have stood out. The first, The Micro Millenium, was a glimpse into the future of computers and tech, and if I'd paid it heed, I would be a very rich man today.
The second, Killing Time, by the brilliant Caleb Carr, predicted just the sort of chilling manipulation of information that is occurring today with our technocrat overseers and our gangster government. It was chilling then but not so much as now because we weren't wedded to tech when the book was penned in the way we are now.
A third book, the over used but still relevant 1984, caught the mindset correctly but couldn't begin to conceive of the ubiquity of tech and the evil of its masters. Could you imagine the cackles of delight if Stalin and Beria had access to the tech of today? Not much better knowing it's in the hands of Merrick Garland, Zuckerberg and Google. So sad that we had to rely on the fluke of luck that Musk would be a billionaire. A free and independent people would never have stood for censorship like this.
“A free and independent people would never have stood for censorship like this.”
Matt Walsh made the point yesterday that the 2 1/2 year COVID “interlude” of (attempted) government and media mind control ALMOST worked. To his mind, the fact that 99% of Americans have rapidly discarded all trappings of the pandemic indicates TPTB were able to temporarily shift our behavior (it turns out wrongly in many cases), but were unable to fundamentally change the way we THINK. IOW, we escaped just in time! Go Elon!
I saw a YouTube video of the brilliant and eloquent Glenn Loury (he's got his own channel) in a discussion with the equally brilliant John McWhorter. He called Ibram X a shallow half wit (in much more colorful language). It was great....
In my time two books have stood out. The first, The Micro Millenium, was a glimpse into the future of computers and tech, and if I'd paid it heed, I would be a very rich man today.
The second, Killing Time, by the brilliant Caleb Carr, predicted just the sort of chilling manipulation of information that is occurring today with our technocrat overseers and our gangster government. It was chilling then but not so much as now because we weren't wedded to tech when the book was penned in the way we are now.
A third book, the over used but still relevant 1984, caught the mindset correctly but couldn't begin to conceive of the ubiquity of tech and the evil of its masters. Could you imagine the cackles of delight if Stalin and Beria had access to the tech of today? Not much better knowing it's in the hands of Merrick Garland, Zuckerberg and Google. So sad that we had to rely on the fluke of luck that Musk would be a billionaire. A free and independent people would never have stood for censorship like this.
“A free and independent people would never have stood for censorship like this.”
Matt Walsh made the point yesterday that the 2 1/2 year COVID “interlude” of (attempted) government and media mind control ALMOST worked. To his mind, the fact that 99% of Americans have rapidly discarded all trappings of the pandemic indicates TPTB were able to temporarily shift our behavior (it turns out wrongly in many cases), but were unable to fundamentally change the way we THINK. IOW, we escaped just in time! Go Elon!
Orwell was a prophet.
Folx seems to think it’s an instruction manual
As an aside, I was watching a movie on Amazon, Mr. Jones, and Orwell is a character. Older movie, 2019, but I just found it and enjoyed it.
A great movie. NYT a star villain.🤠
Sadly.
But now our children are denied his genius and instead fed the brainless poison of Howie Zinn and Ibram X. (Hank Rogers by any other name) Kendi.
More and more people are homeschooling.
I saw a YouTube video of the brilliant and eloquent Glenn Loury (he's got his own channel) in a discussion with the equally brilliant John McWhorter. He called Ibram X a shallow half wit (in much more colorful language). It was great....
That book was atrocious.