Weekend Reading: Amusing Ourselves to Death

The novel WE, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, written in 1920's Russia.

It anticipates both Orwell and Huxley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

http://www.amazon.com/We-...

It's just different strokes for different folks! On one hand you have Huxley's couch potatoes. On the other, you have Executive orders and phony (unconstitutional) laws laying the groundwork for an Orwellian police state ... for all those savages who just won't shut up and go along. .

TV and your mind .. http://www.youtube.com/wa... solutions ..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKvuowEgFWs and http://www.youtube.com/wa... there are answers to our problems

Everyone in Huxley's book took Soma. This was the equivalent of Prozak. Not much difference from what's going on today.

The Orwell book has the infringement of privacy issues, and the Huxley book takes people who can barely even feel anything emotionally because they already know their lot in life (the Soma helps) and everyone is disposable and forgotten.

I like the juxpositation of the two books. I never thought of them that way because I never thought of them together. I never compared the two of them against each other. Sweet.

The powers that be are achieving Orwell's vision of the future by way of Huxley's vision of the future. Employing Huxley's vision made it possible to achieve the kind of brainwashing necessary to have the populace accept much of the Orwellian laws that we are allowing to be imposed on us. The only hope is to wake up and act as change agents in society. I do this through homeschooling my own children and educating everyone that I come in contact with. This year, the Ron Paul movement has accelerated this process and we need to continue this revolution in thinking to the rest of the populace. The best thing we can do is continue to pull back the sheep's clothing that the wolves in our government are hiding behind so that the sheep will finally work with us for real change.

There can be no good without God.
Atheists Presuppose Theism
http://presupposetheism.b...

This book is a perfect complement to this other one:

Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture by Stuart Ewen

http://www.amazon.com/Cap...

These two books together will thoroughly "squeegee you third eye" bringing you to a more fuller understanding of what our culture is really about and why it is so. Very, very enlightening.

WE ARE THE RON PAUL MEDIA!!!

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...and neither does pure Good.

Technology is NOT evil.

"Why'd you choose such a backwards time in such a strange land? If you'd come today you would've reached a whole nation. Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication. " Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar

We CAN communicate a message of education MUCH greater than the top level interests and we must continue to do so!!! Tell EVERYONE the truth, whisper it where needed, speak it where needed, scream it where needed, but tell everyone the truth!

Copy this article and pass it out:

Why Vote for "Lesser of two Evils" When you Have Ron Paul?
There was nothing more to Eisenhower than the fact that he was a factotum of the conspiracy for world government. He fired Patton. He conducted Operation Keelhaul, in which he forcibly returned to the Soviets a couple of million people who had used the war to escape. Some of those people had served in our military in our uniform. Many committed suicide rather than return to Stalin. Mothers threw their babies off bridges and then jumped off themselves. Eisenhower was merciless........

http://www.newswithviews....
by Alan Stang

And for those who need to convince unbound delgates.

1984 and Brave New World are the "options" that are being put before us.

And most people given the "option" will pick BNW.

But the REAL story, the story behind the big show of "1984 or BNW", is Animal Farm.

Some animals just want to be more equal than others.

*sigh*

What's a care bear to do?

I read Neil Postman's book when it was first published. I use it when I teach at a nearby university. No book published in the last 50 years is more essential reading.

This book is dynamite. I urge everyone to read it.

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"The talk must stop. We must secure our borders now. A nation without secure borders is no nation at all. It makes no sense to fight terrorists abroad when our own front door is left unlocked."
- Ron Paul

As long as the music keeps playing, we have no worries. I fear however, when they have so much control through technology, whether it be from implantable chips or from a space station; the music WILL stop. When that happens, there is never enough chairs for everybody.

Ignorance is BLISS.

I got Brave New World as my toilet reading currently. It seems slightly more arrogant and instep with the culture of the early 1900s than Orwell's novel..
I think Huxley's description of social engineering lead to Orwell's caste system in 1984.

Tho , im not sure if the two authors were contemporaries.

Its Just book 1 and 2 of the trilogy of whats going on.
Im glad I can wipe my "*ass*", put the book down.
im still in the first phase of Brave New. I was assuming before the link between Hux and Orwell. If those stories meshed well, it would be no suprise to me.

I think

did a solo concept album Amused to Death based on this book by the late Neil Postman. Roger Waters uses hard hitting and bitter satire as well as some innovative musical effects and tough lyrics. Jeff Beck plays guitar.

Waters opens the work with a BBC interview with Alf Razzell (age about 90 at the time) who was a British soldier with the Royal Fusiliers in World War One. In 1917, Alf Razzell had the job of collecting pay books, records and personal belongings from the bodies of dead soldiers. On the album, Alf talks about a fatally wounded fallen comrade Bill Hubbard left behind in No Man's Land.

In another part of that BBC interview not on Water's album, Alf Razzell makes one of my favourite quotes which is echoed in what Dr. Ron Paul says about our foreign wars of intervention.

Alf said, "At the end of any war, everyone sits around a table and comes to some agreement. Why don't they do that before the war instead?"

Can they both be right?

I've been saying it for years. TV rots the mind.
Looks like a good read. I wonder what the author thinks about the state of the country today.

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The simpler life was a much better way to grow up. Technology will eventually kill us all. Go out canvassing tomorrow everyone. Keep up the great work.