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I fiinished reading George Orwells book 1984, sorry if my other thread seems to have petered out. I didn't enjoy it, but i guess it wasn't there to be enjoyed.
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Emmie, I meant transgender will die out. In 50 years,we will be horrified at how we treated these people.
I have always been against "positive discrimination". Until I joined AB, and realised that the general attitudes of those in power (usually straight, white, males), has never changed over centuries, and even when forced by laws- is still complained about. So, AB has taught me why we need it.
I have always been against "positive discrimination". Until I joined AB, and realised that the general attitudes of those in power (usually straight, white, males), has never changed over centuries, and even when forced by laws- is still complained about. So, AB has taught me why we need it.
i don't want to make a list of the things i don't care for, we would be here all afternoon. Besides i want to get back to this peculiar book, its not upset me so much as i found it somewhat disturbing, and some things jarred in it with modern day Britain.
I will shake it off im sure once i start reading something else.
I will shake it off im sure once i start reading something else.
the level of surveillance we now live under is far beyond anything Orwell could have dreamed of... every transaction logged, cameras everywhere, phones mining information about us.
Orwell was writing about the Soviet Union where surveillance was controlled ultimately by the party... but in our society nobody is (yet) "in charge" of the surveillance empire... companies like amazon googld and sony compete to install listening devices in our homes (Alexa/Google Home) but persuade us rather than force us. And their agenda is to sell us stuff not political control. There certainly is the technology around now to make Orwells dystopia real... but there is not yet a unifying totalitarian organisation like the Communists were.
Orwell was writing about the Soviet Union where surveillance was controlled ultimately by the party... but in our society nobody is (yet) "in charge" of the surveillance empire... companies like amazon googld and sony compete to install listening devices in our homes (Alexa/Google Home) but persuade us rather than force us. And their agenda is to sell us stuff not political control. There certainly is the technology around now to make Orwells dystopia real... but there is not yet a unifying totalitarian organisation like the Communists were.
Some of it is consensual... it likely would have baffled Orwell to see people share so much information on facebook or put entertainment devices in their homes which constantly spy on them... Huxley was more correxct there - millions abandoned privacy for the sake of pleasure.
But some of it isn’t... your ISP and your bank have access to huge amounts of personal information about you, and you can’t really go without either of them... bots are constantly tracking the web for any data they can sniff about your behaviour as that is information that can be sold... and they do it whether you like it or not. The big difference is that nobody is yet in charge of it all, and the main agenda for now is to analyse your behaviour and sell you things... but the same data harvesting tools have already been used to manipulate millions of people politically e.g. the 2016 brexit referendum and the election of trump in the USA. Cambridge Analytica.
But some of it isn’t... your ISP and your bank have access to huge amounts of personal information about you, and you can’t really go without either of them... bots are constantly tracking the web for any data they can sniff about your behaviour as that is information that can be sold... and they do it whether you like it or not. The big difference is that nobody is yet in charge of it all, and the main agenda for now is to analyse your behaviour and sell you things... but the same data harvesting tools have already been used to manipulate millions of people politically e.g. the 2016 brexit referendum and the election of trump in the USA. Cambridge Analytica.
i don't use most personal websites, like putting stuff on social media, facebook, twitter, i refuse to enter that dangerous realm, but you are quite right we are overlooked, on our daily musings on AB for instance, one could be profiled just as easily as in the book, one's weaknesses, one falability and so much more. I have come to the conclusion that some of modern life i don't care for at all. Its not that i actively hate, its not that but a dislike if you like of the way our society is going.
