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What if most of the supposed threats are a bluff? There won’t really be CBDCs, you will not be forced to eat the bugs, they will not jail you for dissent, etc.

They just want you to think all those things so you don’t participate in shaping the discourse and the zeitgeist.

It’s psychological warfare, and whether you’re terrified of a virus or the police state, in the end it doesn’t really matter to them.

The important point is that you’re afraid and you believe “they” are powerful while you are powerless.

What if Orwell’s prophecy wasn’t about the real world, but the state of the individual mind when exposed to a sufficient amount of techno-manipulation?

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Phillip Leslie 2y ago

Orwell was looking backwards at the world war he just came through and how politics and society responded to literal existential threat. History is cyclical so it comes back around, but he was not prophetic lol

Chris Liss 2y ago

I mean it was set in 1984, so it was a prophecy of sorts.

Phillip Leslie 2y ago

Projecting the past into the future is not prophecy. It’s projection.

NOPUMPFAKEZ‼️ 2y ago

🤯

Phillip Leslie 2y ago

I’m literally just a contrarian so engage at ur leisure

Phillip Leslie 2y ago

Orwell was trying to process the Crisis he had just lived through. He did it with fiction. And he placed the story in the future as a means of dissociating from the experience.

But the pendulum of human societies always swings back and we are smack in the middle a new Crisis era and so the experience of Orwell resonates with us now, including his book which was an attempt to process his experience.