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MadChimp's avatar

TRITORCH! Welcome back!

How old themes bob and weave, sleep, awake, resurface. If they are part of our β€˜core belief’ they sometimes slip beneath the surface, but never completely leave us - - . When I got to the ramblings of Yuval Noah Harari, it sent me scrambling back to an exchange of ideas we had in September, 2023 - - One of which - -

" Man's greatest philosophical divide is whether or not he is the ultimate moral authority"

And here we are again! - - Yet another egg-head who has convinced himself man is far more capable of designing man (and all things human) than the original designer. The last self-declared genius who set-out to prove THAT was a megalo-maniac named Fauci, and it sure appears his efforts to re-engineer our immune system have hit a few β€˜snags’

Rock on, TT!

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Michelle Mcgarver's avatar

Orwell is fb, Huxley is Twitter

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumplepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny β€˜failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.’ In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.”

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