The successful exercise of power requires a social cage restricting the citizen’s option of leaving, a “closing of the escape route,” if you will.
Tag: Big Brother
The Top 12 Dystopian Musts For Dystopian Junkies
This is an easy dystopian or anti-utopian read, even for the fussiest of readers.
Australia has gone woke. ‘Mateship’ is on the brink of being banned.
Just picture an Australian culture where ‘She’ll be right, mate’ and G’day, mate’ are outlawed, banned, possibly even illegal with hefty fines.
Divide and Conquer They Have. What Comes Next?
They have taken advantage of your fear, heightened it, and then exploited it. But to admit that we’ve been fooled is to admit we’re wrong.
Want to Prepare for the Next Pandemic? Read These Five Books on Expertise
The rest of 2021 is shaping up to be a sequel to a movie that never should have been made in the first place: from the people who brought you Pandemic 2020 comes the smash hit sequel Pandemic 2021: Delta Variant. New CDC masking “guidelines” make me wonder about further restrictions, all from “the experts” who…
George Orwell: The Man Behind 1984 and His Dire Warning to Us
George Orwell’s 1984. It’s the internationally acclaimed dystopian bestseller that some say depicts a prophetic view and a chilling warning to us all. Between the pages of ’84 are the dire consequences for man when propaganda is at its height; for when a government rules with an ironclad fist. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery….
Beware Google’s Dystopian COVID-19(84) Surveillance. It’s Straight Out of Orwell-And You’re Lapping It Up.
We’re straight out of 1984 and into 2020 with one giant leap forward (hehe *sigh*). Orwell must be growing restless in his slumber as the Internet giants track and share our surveillance data with governments that ask. The COVID-19 virus, which originated in Wuhan, China after a 6-week cover-up by the Chinese Communist Party, has…
Facial Recognition Forces Kids to Pay Attention in Class
In Hangzhou, China, a high school has implemented facial recognition technology in the classroom. The system scans and stores the emotions of each student’s face every 30 seconds to determine if they are angry, fearful, confused, happy or upset. Hangzhou No. 11 High School categorizes these emotions to determine how the student is progressing. The…
Surveillance Slips Into Totalitarianism…But Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned
It’s a page out of Orwell’s 1984. The increasing revelations about surveillance across the globe into our private lives is causing a divide in the Western states. Are the actions of the NSA in the United States, and the ASD in Australia creating an increasingly totalitarian environment? Are the Western states increasingly becoming paranoid with…
Censorship Announced But Not Reported On In News
It’s been over two months since I’ve written a single word either for my employer or myself. Simply being, censorship has hit independent journalists hard. My employer can’t afford to employ me anymore and for my own website, I’m simply tired of putting out words to spoon feed people. Those who tune in here, present…
The CIA is “waging war on truth-tellers”
If the CIA wins this fight by the conjuring of legal loopholes – or by less wholesome, more subversive means – The Fourth Estate of the world will crumble
Turnbull Govt’s $18.5M for Citizen Surveillance with “The Capability” and “iOmniscient” Facial Recog. Technology
This is a whole other league of creepy, this is a whole other league of invasive and the fact that there’s been no discussion around this is really weird.