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ck4829

(35,041 posts)
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 02:05 PM Feb 2014

Glenn Beck goes Unabomber. "Technology is evil! Technology is Authoritarian Porn!"

Glenn Beck's incessant fear of technology is well-established, as every technological advance is seen by Beck as one step further down the road toward our inevitable dystopian nightmare. And this terror about what developing technology might do to us in the future was the theme of last night's monologue on Beck's television program, where he warned that "technology is authoritarian porn."

In particular, Beck was a bit alarmed by reports that the late Philip Seymour Hoffman would be digitally recreated in order to complete a key scene in The Hunger Games film he was working on when he died.

"There is no death," Beck said. "Is it not a little disturbing?"

"The transition is happening at a rapid pace," Beck warned, and doing so at a time when Americans are becoming dumber while the government is growing larger and more controlling.

"You, your children, and your grandchildren will be at their mercy," Beck warned. "Wake up! Wake up!":

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-technology-authoritarian-porn

Now if only he could get a shack out in the middle of nowhere and just disappear.

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Glenn Beck goes Unabomber. "Technology is evil! Technology is Authoritarian Porn!" (Original Post) ck4829 Feb 2014 OP
So indoor plumbing is bad? TVEE is bad? Rex Feb 2014 #1
People that fear the advancement of technology aren't people worth listening to. TheMathieu Feb 2014 #2
What happened? get the red out Feb 2014 #3
"To learn more.... AZ Mike Feb 2014 #4
"Hype"ocrite Aerows Feb 2014 #5
says the guy with the tv show, radio show, website..... NightWatcher Feb 2014 #6
Isn't he that guy who has the show cloudbase Feb 2014 #7
Hey, whatever happened to his planned community? Yavin4 Feb 2014 #8
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2014 #9
 

TheMathieu

(456 posts)
2. People that fear the advancement of technology aren't people worth listening to.
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 02:22 PM
Feb 2014

The good outweighs the bad.

As much as we have lost privacy now, so have those in power.

For every red light camera, there's a cellphone or dashboard cam capturing police abuse.

Technology is making the world more transparent and it's not a bad thing. It's just new. Everything will balance itself out.

AZ Mike

(468 posts)
4. "To learn more....
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 02:31 PM
Feb 2014

....subscribe to my podcast and get a Roku device to watch me on streaming TV!"

-Glenn Beck

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
6. says the guy with the tv show, radio show, website.....
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 02:34 PM
Feb 2014

Feel free to move to a shack in the woods with no connection to society. It might even help him feel better after a few years unplugged

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