I mean it was set in 1984, so it was a prophecy of sorts.
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?
But this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. They are easily manipulated and going along in part because they see so many other people going along. And they see so many other people going along because the many, many who know it’s wrong say nothing. Maybe they post behind a nym on NOSTR, but they say nothing IRL and they assume you too are complicit,
If people who know stood up, people who kind of know would know and stand up, and the manipulation would be much much harder to pull off.
No one knows what will happen in a complex system. To presume that standing up makes no difference is folly. You can either stand up for what’s true, or hide and feign compliance. That’s your only choice.
Kant’s Categorical Imperative: Act only under that maxim you would will to be a universal law.
I.e., act out of principle, not convenience, or not based on speculation about *whether* other people would follow suit, only whether you would will them to.
I have read (many excerpts of) the SI, itself written in the 20th century.
You are worried about “attack surfaces for the powerful.”
I am arguing that we are the powerful, once you ditch the fear and stand up for what you think, rather than pretending to go along.
Happy Birthday, Stella! Didn’t realize you were the second-oldest person on NOSTR.
Seems like there’s some confusion between soldiers and spies.
Satoshi was a spy. The people giving Assange anonymous tips were spies.
They are spies against the regime, and they require anonymity.
But soldiers are the opposite. You want your soldiers to be seen by your adversary, not hidden.
When he sees the legions upon legions you have at the ready, he surrenders without a shot.
Most peope are soldiers, not spies. You have no special inside information or access. You have no secret weapon on which you are working.
You should reveal yourselves and show the regime it needs to stand down pre-emptively.
That censorship and forced injections are a non-starter, that CBDCs are DOA.
That you won’t eat insects, and you will use the energy you own as you see fit.
Many people here seem to think they’re deep cover operatives whose lives are in danger should they get found out. Maybe a couple of you, but most of you would be better served just to put your name and face to your views and stand up for what you believe IRL.
I’m talking about speaking the truth under your own handle online. Go ahead, out us all in jail. They are passing laws as we speak making “disinformation” illegal and those who only post it under nyms are empowering the censors IMO.
Strong disagree. If everyone who were against censorship stood up IRL and under his own name, there’d be no censorship. It’s only because people go along and pretend to comply that the State can feign the legitimate authority to do what it does.
The hiding strengthens the frame of the censor.
Apples and oranges.
Satoshi needed anonymity to birth this technology. Regular people expressing dissent need to stand up and not comply in real life while only dissenting in secret.
Should write a story called “The Censorer’s New Clothes” wherein the disinformation industrial complex is lying about everything, and everyone knows it, but the EU and US administration pretend they’re actually doing something important to keep people safe, and retarded institutions go along with it.
Euthanasia should be renamed euthancanada.
No one said ignore the risk. I even said it could happen. I also never said not to take precautions — at a minimum you should make yourself hard to cancel.
But I see people who make nary a peep IRL, dissenting only behind 5 VPNs and an anon handle, living in fear the state will crash their door if they were merely to stand behind their real views. That’s how the cancer spreads — via compliance.
Maybe that was it. Was a Turkish hookah cafe at the corner below my building
Lived in Berlin for 3 months. Definitely jaywalked a bunch of times. Can’t remember if anyone gave me a dirty look. (I’m a NYer, and jaywalking is mandatory there.)
cool thanks — will check it out.
I want to zap some posts but I use Damus on a mac desktop/laptop. Any suggestions without inputting my private key into a browser?
If everyone had a nuclear bomb, I bet they wouldn’t have mandated the mRNA shot.
They will certainly try just as they did with the lab leak initially, but the evidence will soon be overwhelming.
That the mRNA shot has killed and injured millions will soon be knowledge as common as the fact that covid leaked from a lab.