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Beeswax's avatar

Bingo. We needed the internet to produce this level of totalitarianism and group-think. Orwell's ubiquitous Big Brother was a screen in every home.

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Joe Wright's avatar

Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, Castro, et al, managed it very well without the internet.

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Beeswax's avatar

They sure did.

The “special sauce” of the internet is that it appears benign and voluntary. No need to torture, murder, starve or enslave. It’s brainwashing 2.0.

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Joe Wright's avatar

All of those cruelties you so blithely list are coming to every Western nation.

Computers, the internet, machine code are by definition, dumb. One man picks up a hammer and builds something of value, hopefully something beautiful.

A licensed medical doctor, after swearing an oath to do no harm, turns on a vacuum and sucks the dismembered corpse of a once healthy baby from its mother’s womb.

We permitted women to legally murder their children for over fifty years and for the most part looked away. What version of brainwashing is that?

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