We've been dumbed down by the public education system.
We've been indoctrinated by the corporate owned mass media.
We've been socially engineered by Hollywood movies, pop culture music and TV programming.
We've been drugged, brainwashed and robbed by Big Pharma and the American healthcare racket.
We've been tricked into thinking the U.S. is a democracy, not knowing it's a Corporate Oligarchy.
Orwell is rolling in his grave.
Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.
Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Interesting proposition.
I would have to say, that there are elements of reality in all the points you make.
Nonetheless, answer me this.
How do we maintain social order, without imposing some form of State control?
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Today the wars have no end in sight. The wars are always on some distant battleground, and the enemies are constantly changing. More and more tax money is poured into the private military industrial complex in the name of "national security".
Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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In 1984, "telescreens" served as both a propaganda machine and recording or surveillance devices in all but the "proles" houses. Today, we one-up Orwell with our pocket telescreens that both can record us, and give us a never-ending flow of propaganda.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/07/nsa_surveillance_iphones_make_snooping_easy_for_spies_and_law_enforcement.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/10/23/240239062/five-things-to-know-about-the-nsas-surveillance-activities
Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Until the world has everyone watching everyone at all times, anarchy and true freedom will always lose to tyranny.
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Unfortunately, even if this is achieved, the media can always choose which news to report and some vital information might purposefully be left out.
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Sounds eerily familiar.
Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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I know what your comeback will be so I'll repeat myself:
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I do not see much resemblance of the American society and lifestyle to that of people from 1984.The closest example to that from the modern world would be North Korea, where the official narrative changes by 180 degrees whenever convenient, and where almost every aspect of people's lives is controlled by the state. Personally, I only interact with the state once a year, when I file my tax return. This is less interaction than most people in the UK had at the time with their government - so, rather than rolling in his grave, I think Orwell would be genuinely surprised and happy to see his predictions turn out to be wrong.
I think a better analogy for the processes you've described would be Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, than Orwell's 1984. Huxley's New Brave World also illustrates certain points (mainly prevalence of the demand for physical pleasure over the demand for intellectual pleasure), albeit falling short in predicting the governmental role in these processes.
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If this doesn't describe the Donald Trump campaign, I don't know what does.
What of the other similarities?
Newspeak was created by the totalitarian state and involved the joining of two words or abbreviations to make more words. Pretty much how the world sends text messages, amirite? K....
This may not have come about by the same ways and reasons. Newspeak was done to make a revolution impossible by scrubbing the words for it in the English vocabulary, wholeslang texting is done for convenience and time saving. Some would say the net results have some similarities though.
Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Blues and Raptors handed two very toxic teams embarrassing losses, 95% of the sports world is rejoicing in the news
Repealing the Second Amendment is the first step to Totalitarianism, and it needs to be prevented to protect our freedom
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Orwell got the future of a surveillance state right however he got it wrong that the government forced it onto us, instead we begged for it and once government officials actually get smart enough to realize what it is, opposed to the lack of focus on security and privacy shown in the Google testimony, they will simply co-opt it. Instead of government installed security cameras everywhere we each carry the surveillance camera in our pockets, ready to deploy it on a fellow citizen at any moment. We are at a point in time where drug addicts are better with security than the average person as their is literally a manual over a hundred pages long detailing how to hide what you are doing on the web so that you can buy drugs on the dark web, while being almost uncatchable, and if they are caught is usually due to the physical package and not online activity, but even that isn't full proof.
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"Americanism not Globalism, will be our credo." ~Donald Trump
"A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill
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