A new word for the nondescript age.
Here stands the New Man. His conception of reality is a dance of electronic images fired into his forebrain, a gossamer construction of his masters, designed so that he will not under any circumstance perceive the actual. His happiness is delivered to him through a tube or an electronic connection. His God lurks behind an electronic curtain; when the curtain is pulled away we find the CIA sorcerer, the media manipulator... Mass Control:
Engineering Human Consciousness
Jim Keith
I don't dream anymore - too dangerous!
ReplyDeletescunnert neither do I. However I do imagine as always.
ReplyDeleteIt has worked so far. We've been on this road for decades but only began to smell a rat shortly after 9/11.
ReplyDeleteThe Iraq war might well have been planned to be ongoing, so that occupation could be prolonged.
The military industrial complex needs to be fed - how could it survive in times of peace?
Yes Fausty and the complex I would argue is morphing into a rabid beleif system as the industrial bit vanishes. Proto religious military complex might be more appropriate in the future.
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