One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).
We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.
The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.
The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.
A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.
That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.
Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.
The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.
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Посмотрите на эти кадры из Австралии. Сидней. Самый центр, рассекают грузовики с огромными экранами с которых лыбится Путин, буква Z на кузовах, весь их некрофильский набор.
Это обычное расползание русского фашизма по всему миру. Они закидывают свои щупальца везде, куда могут дотянуться. И схема везде одинаковая, отработанная годами. А завтра этот чувак в папахе заявит, что Сидней — это древняя православная земля, основанная там каким-нибудь выдуманным казаком в XV веке и покажут карту. Вы думаете, это шутка? Нет, это их реальная ментальность.
@sinkas2@PaulClausen I'm not sure why you'd bother. I see the GWM's and BYD's get slammed for their poor driver aids, random braking at full speed & lane divergence controls. Though I drove a T-cross in Scotland that was pretty bad into corners coz of lane departure control. Had to fight the wheel.
@sinkas2@PaulClausen Guess it depends on how bad the blow by is, how good the price is and how long you intend to keep it. Might keep breathing for another 50thou. If it's a turbo and been 'dusted' I'd avoid it like the plague
From a Norwegian point of view it seems like the American experiment of having a Corrupt and compromised 79 year old pedophile with the intellect of a garden salad as president failed in a horrific way 🤷
Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker, published 70 years ago in April 1955, features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist & rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi.
Such a silly idea! 😆