This Orwell quote from another thread reminds me of my

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elementary school students. Their minds are so stunted by popular culture, bad food, lack of books in their homes, etc., that they do not seem capable of having a wide range of thought.

Newspeak

"Don't you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." ~ from 1984 by George Orwell ~

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1. Orwell vs Huxley

Amusing ourselves to death.

[TacticalPeek]

3. Kewl.

Thanks for that pleasant distraction.

:smoke:

[tavalon]

5. Ha!

I love DUers!

[Uncle Joe]

11. That's good but I see no reason as to why they both couldn't be correct.

I see both trends as happening, for every place there is a circumstance and for everything there is a season, it just depends on what's needed to do the job at the time.

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15. I agree

Both are happening to some extent.

[tblue]

2. Chilling!!! In today's paper: Parents use iPads & iPhones as pacifiers

for babies and toddlers. WTF is the future for these kids? Years from now we will see the damage that's been done to a generation's abilities to converse and otherwise connect to people. Steve Jobs was a genius, but we're gonna pay a high price for these nifty all-encompassing gadgets.

[tavalon]

4. OTOH

Both of those items are being utilized heavily to save our democracy. Double edged swords, eh?

[tblue]

9. Totally. I'm not knocking that.

They've saved lives. I use Apple products every single day.

[Laluchacontinua]

6. What was so genius about Steve Jobs?

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8. User interface, versatility, elegance, vision in Apple products. .

Creating a "computer for the rest of us."

I worked at Apple for many years. He is truly a genius.

[MedleyMisty]

7. Like being able to livestream police brutality to thousands of people?

Definitely a high price to pay there. If you're part of the 1%, that is.

Old people have been saying that kind of thing since Socrates. Somehow, the world keeps turning.

[Robb]

10. Yeah, those kids get dumber every year, eh?

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16. I'm a bit jaded this year because I am the reading intervention

teacher, so I am not seeing the whole picture.

[DainBramaged]

12. And by the end of this decade, there will be nowhere you can go without a camera seeing you

other than say your bathroom.


The Iraq was wasn't about 9/11 retaliation, it was about controlling the masses and removing their freedoms. And they succeeded. We have been overthrown, and we missed the revolution.

[Uncle Joe]

13. That's what piss tests are for.

"And by the end of this decade, there will be nowhere you can go without a camera seeing you other than say your bathroom."

[ieoeja]

14. I used to think 1984 was the stupidest book ever.

Then on 9/12/01 less than a year after a presidential election in which Bush repeatedly mocked Gore for believing that Islamist terrorism was a serious threat, less than three months after the nightly news broadcasts featured George Tenant informing the Senate Intelligence committee that Bush was ignoring the threat, the Rightist media said, "bet you're glad Gore isn't President now," and the people BELIEVED that which they knew to be false a moment before.

I found that moment downright scary.

On the plus side, most people would remember the truth when I reminded them. But until I reminded them.... And then there were those who wouldn't remember the truth. And not all of them Rightists.