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The U.S. isn't an entity capable of consideration. There's some wizard of oz style trickery going on here. If you pull back the curtain, you'll find a gaggle of corrupt bureaucrats…

More unqualified leisure time isn't what most people want. Most people want meaningful connections to others. Watching T.V. for eight hours isn't going to make people feel good. Fe…

There are many more things competing for people's time and attention. Also, nationalism is waning in many places due to globalism. The Olympics is inherently a nationalistic event.…

Uh, what? How did making blacks sit at the back of the bus improve economic efficiency? It may be argued that many legal systems, far from being a boon to economic productivity, ac…

"An astrobiologist says non-fungible tokens do not bode well for our species’s future. " This is a historical subhead.

I don't know what's going on and I'm scared.

Freedom is slavery... We're not all in the same boat. If you want to change the system, you're going to have to fight the people invested in the status quo. Most people aren't inte…

> This is the kind of things that show how inviable is a market-led economy without proper regulation. The medical industry is highly regulated. I can't just go open up a practice …

Stop using YouTube. Support smaller services while you still can. We don't need to keep feeding these monolithic beasts.

It's a signal that people don't like what they are hearing. If the propaganda aligns with their interests, the majority will like it. It's not a good signal for gauging propaganda …

Maybe I'm on the autistic spectrum or something. That's why I gravitated to programming.

What a nightmare. How could we let it get to this point? People that have no direct interest in our well being are informing our worldview.

I have a book recommendation for you: book of Ephesians in the bible. "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of…

I feel a very strong low tide in the general publics withdrawal of their support of many institutions. Where is all that energy previously occupied going to go?

Brave New World has become more than a novel now...it's a symbol in the cultural lexicon. Another example is the use of "orwellian" as an adjective by people that have never read 1…

Despite all the insightful intellectual back and forth on this thread, this is my favorite comment.

That's a very good point... and are we really awake when we watch T.V.? Or are we in some type of suggestive state? I wrote the above and then did some googling. Found this article…

If he had predicted that the primary means of conditioning the public would be T.V. instead of hypnopedia, there would be no doubt that we're living in something like BNW -- or at …

> dulltopain Huxley ultimately believes, as all artists believe, that a creative life is the only life worth living. Suffering and conflict is the fuel of all higher pursuits. In B…

In Huxley's dystopia, all friction is eliminated. Friction is what makes people wake up. These "unbearable limits," i.e., friction, would not exist in Brave New World.