Clay Lawless

… But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another-slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their au-tonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley re-marked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distrac-tions." In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right. https://ia600101.us.archive.org/27/items/Various_PDFs/NeilPostman-AmusingOurselvesToDeath.pdf

“In America, Orwell’s prophecies are of small relevance, but Huxley’s are well under way toward being realized.”

The irony here is that Huxley’s vision would lead into Orwell’s, embodied by a TV carnival barker turned authoritative despot. We amused ourselves to tyranny, not death.

a man is screaming in a car and saying `` hack the planet '' . ALT: a man is screaming in a car and saying `` hack the planet '' .

What did we learn from this movie?

Don't remove the manual override for the ballast control on your oil tanker fleet.

YouTube video by DEFCONConference DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow

youtu.be/4EmstuO0Em8?...

Organizations need to be promoting ICS/OT professionals into ICS/OT security roles.

Canada considers tariffs on US canned water OTTAWA - As a retaliation in an escalating trade war between the US and the rest of the world, Canada is considering placing a 25% tariff on all American canned and glass bottled water including Budwe...

Canada considers tariffs on US canned water

Confessions of a Reluctant Nationalist I'd throw a punch to fight for Canada's sovereignty while reserving and exercising my right to criticize this country. That's a fine form of patriotism.

Canada is a country worth fighting for against anyone who’d roll up and sock us in the kisser, goddamn them.

I will still stand up for my country and our right to decide for ourselves how we want to live.

www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...

Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli

Well, I guess I'll switch back to Scotch during the US/Canada trade wars.

Did not realize this address from Trudeau was going to be aimed at us