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In other words: The services that are good enough to prevent eavesdropping are blocked, while the other services are "clear text" to the attacking party. Is that a possibility?
The whole Chinese way of doing things makes me think that most people live in enormous Skinner boxes. It makes me reflect on my own media consumption. What messages am I receiving? How are processing those messages affecting my view of the world? What experiences or opportunities am I missing out on because of the messages I am receiving and processing and how they are affecting my internal model of the world? Look a…
Your media is your eyes and ears. They can manipulate your actions just manipulating what you people see. When you travel around the world, this is the first thing you learn: all the people, in all countries are manipulated by the media, controlled by the power structures. "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?" The Merchant of Venice There is an almost…
Im going through this now, having just returned to the UK after a number of years away. Last time I felt this way was when i left a village bubble for the bubble of London village.
That said - I'm amazed at how 'broken' everything is - schools, doctors, police, roads. And so much of London is still 'up and coming', i.e. a dump.
However, it can't have changed that much. Friends are still comfortably numb and tolerant of the entropy and propaganda. As I was before - indeed, I maintained a rosy view of Blighty all my time outside and it served as my benchmark for other countries. Im sure the change is more with me - I see this place with new eyes and feel like a foreigner tbh. It's an interesting position. Travel (not tourism) perhaps doesn't broaden the mind as much as create a cognitive dissonance. We deal with it by either denial and retreating into our set patterns or adapting. The former is a living death. Embrace change or be consumed by it.
wrt UK - gov here is stealthily setting up their own great wall. Given the well established corporate news filters, speech censorship and language planning, its no longer in anyones interest to speak openly in public. What a system we have created for ourselves!
Still as Kierkegaard reminded us: people lay so much store by freedom of expression, but not so much for freedom of thought. They can't take that away from us (yet)
source: http://www.purevpn.com/blog/china-great-firewall-update-has-...
The whole Chinese way of doing things makes me think that most people live in enormous Skinner boxes. It makes me reflect on my own media consumption. What messages am I receiving? How are processing those messages affecting my view of the world? What experiences or opportunities am I missing out on because of the messages I am receiving and processing and how they are affecting my internal model of the world? Look a…
Your media is your eyes and ears. They can manipulate your actions just manipulating what you people see. When you travel around the world, this is the first thing you learn: all the people, in all countries are manipulated by the media, controlled by the power structures. "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?" The Merchant of Venice There is an almost…