The primary social control mechanism in 1984 was the herd instinct of the people and not the Thought Police.
Having so little privacy makes fighting the system too difficult.
Anonymity and privacy are fertile soil for dissent.
Maybe Facebook is actually a problem, huh?
I would not consider it for a revolutionary tool
Naomi Wolf: So why do all these American reporters, who know quite well that they get praise and money for doing what Assange has done, stand in a silence that can only be called cowardly, while a fellow publisher faces threats of extradition, banning, prosecution for spying…?
One would expect lead editorials supporting Assange’s right to publish from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and USAToday, not to mention every major TV outlet. But instead, what we have heard is the deafening sounds of what middle-schoolers call ‘crickets’ — that is, an awkward silence.
Full article here: http://topicfire.com/Naomi-Wolf-WikiLeaks-Revolution-and-the-Lost-Cojones-of-American-Journalism-16759210.html
Nailing Descartes To The Wall / (Liquid) Meat Is Still Murder
http://propagandhi.com
STOP CONSUMING ANIMALS
I speak outside what is recognized as the border between “reason” and “insanity”.
But I consider it a measure of my humanity
to be written off by the living graves of a billion murdered lives.
And I’m not ashamed of my recurring dreams about me and a gun and a different species (hint: starts with “h” and rhymes with “Neuman’s”)
of carnage strewn about the stockyards, the factories and farms.
Still I know as well as anyone that it does less good than harm
to be this honest with a conscience eased by lies.
But you cannot deny that
meat is still murder.
Dairy is still rape.
And I’m still as stupid as anyone, but I know my mistakes.
I have recognized one form of oppression, now I recognize the rest.
And life’s too short to make another’s shorter
(animal liberation now!).
http://propagandhi.com/lyrics/lesstalk/
