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Sep. 7th, 2022|10:37 pm |
He might not have noticed any coercion or mandates because the very idea of not getting the needle never occurred to him - or his ilk. It's the sort of attitude Huxley would - I suppose - envisaged for the Alphas or Betas in Brave New World. There would be no space for the contemplation of any kind of evil intent (or incompetence) from some kind of elite force attempting to govern events. Probably, for that matter, it would be nigh on impossible for them to allow for any possibility of them being governed by an occulted power.
Maybe it's feasible to regard our contrasting attitudes through the prism of the Huxley-Orwell juxtaposition. I mean we - who can allow for the existence of malevolence in high places have seen the bottom of the boot. They simply haven't. Doing the correct thing isn't even, in their mind, compliance.
That is (was) the whole point of the 24-7 show: the gross psychological tricks to have us sceptical ones as being objects of fun and derision, the total lack of any intelligent informed dissent in the Public Space. It was to engender the Huxley happy slave - not even aware of his slavery.
If I'm right about their intent (which I am pretty sure I am), then it only worked so far. I think a a lot of the rational ones with cool modern views feel deeply uneasy, maybe at a sub-conscious level for the moment. There's fewer of them 'about', and they are keeping their own counsel.
I don't care too much, as long as they never deem to fuck my life up again.
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