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You Live in a Fabricated World
Orwell is so old school it's not even funny anymore. Ponder the ramifications: totally fake photos, totally fake videos, with no capability of determining they are fake. You will believe what you are "shown", and they will show you whatever they want you to believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2edOMMREazo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttGUiwfTYvg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkoi7sZvWiU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkkph4JhrCg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7kQ5lNfUfg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR71awVf6ck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypndvpEjyHg |
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This is a kind of off the top of my head thought.
Does the fakeness of our world cause violence? Does the mind numbing unreality cause people to look for something real in physical pain? When you are drowning in fake voices, is setting off a bomb the only way for the carnal man to have a voice? |
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Not saying there isn't violence in the world, but when our view of the world comes from people dedicated to fabricating "news" for various agendas... |
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Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, was rightly imprisoned for life in 1998 for sending bombs that maimed and killed three people and injured 23 more, from 1978 to 1992. No one can excuse his terrorism.
Kaczynski’s ideas, however, described in a manifesto entitled, "Industrial Society and Its Future," cannot be dismissed, and are increasingly important as our society hurtles toward individual disempowerment at the hands of technology and political forces that erode autonomy. “Industrial Society and its Future” was published on September 19, 1995 by The New York Times and The Washington Post, to comply with Kaczynski’s demand, in exchange for him stopping the bombings. Kaczynski, who is still alive, wrote that the increasing industrialization of America and the world, and our increasing reliance on technology, would end up short-circuiting the ability of human beings to think for themselves and act on their own ideas and abilities. He saw the political “left” as embracing these technologies with special fervor, because they were in keeping with the “leftist” ideology that centralized power was the way to govern men. He saw these “leftists” as psychologically disordered—seeking to compensate for deep feelings of personal disempowerment by banding together and seeking extraordinary means of control in society. Well, Kaczynski, while reprehensible for murdering and maiming people, was precisely correct in many of his ideas. Watching the development of Facebook heighten the narcissism of tens of millions of people, turning them into mini-reality TV versions of themselves, I would bet he knows, with even more certainty, that he was onto something. Witnessing average Americans “tweeting” about their daily activities as though they were celebrities, with fans clamoring to know their whereabouts, he must marvel at the ease with which technology taps the ego and drains the soul. Thinking about the widespread use of GPS, he must wonder whether anyone realizes that following illuminated maps to get where you are going actually erodes your real sense of direction—on highways and, perhaps, in life. Hearing about Google Glass – a new device that will only sap the ability of users, in my opinion, to see anything clearly, Kaczynski might even prefer the reality of the iron bars and solitude of his cell. At least they, he may be thinking, are real. And having seen Barack Obama elected, in part, by mastering the use of the Internet as a campaign tool, then watching his administration preside over eavesdropping on the American public, monitoring their emails and tapping their phones, denying them their due process and privacy, and making a play to disarm them, Kaczynski, must wonder what it will take for Americans to wake up to the fact that their individuality and autonomy—indeed, what constitutes the core of a human life—is under siege (by the very forces he predicted—technology and leftist political leaders). http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/...overnment.html |
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I think so. The Bible speaks of lying wonders, false prophets and other signs in the heavens. I cannot watch the "news" anymore because it is really a way to sway opinions. I will listen to the traffic report and the weather report. Then I have to turn the silly thing off. I work in a bank. You want to talk about fabrication, money is a fabrication. there is no money: it is just electrical bits in a computer. At the press of a button you can create "wealth" or "poverty." |
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people make fun of me because I have a flip cell phone. It is the smallest, cheapest cell phone I could buy. Why do I do this? Because most Americans live inside of their cell phone. their whole lives are there. Even in church, the place I want to leave the world behind, they busy themselves on those silly cell phones. Fabrication yes. The world inside of a cell phone is just that. I cannot text on my cell because it is so small |
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10 more years.
Anyone see the new drivers license? What is that see through picture for? |
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