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From: chrisltft
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  • I have some trouble understanding what's being said here.

    Is he saying Orwell was optimistic in the sense that he didn't anticipate technology destroying our reasoning faculties and our ability to dissent?

  • that's pretty much how i read it. in 1984, there isall this talk about resisting and stuff, we don't see much of that in real life. i mean people might raise their fists in the air at a rage against the machine concert, but the next day they go back to their desks.

  • @FlakMeister If you listen to some other lectures by Rick he essentially says humans have disappeared -- instead we're left with people who adopt personas and a techological "security state" where living free long ago became impossible. I think too he's saying people don't really want to resist tyranny when it's not a brutal form of repression but something shiny and technologically appealing.

  • @FlakMeister If you listen to some other lectures by Rick he essentially says humans have disappeared -- instead we're left with people who adopt personas and a techological "security state" where living free long ago became impossible. I think too he's saying people don't really want to resist tyranny when it's not a brutal form of repression but something shiny and technologically appealing.

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