We’ve managed to create more of an Orwellian dystopia than even Orwell himself could have ever imagined:
* Where human beings no longer interact in an arena of physical presence and discourse, where individual mannerisms and reactions can be directly observed.
* Where all are driven by a wholly fabricated and frenetic “immediacy of need and gratification.”
* Where the speed of information is purposely designed to defeat the need for rigorous examination for objective truth and reliability.
* Where unfounded and unqualified opinions that are unencumbered by reality, have replaced proven, observable and historical facts as the new evidentiary standard.
* Where 2% minority beliefs are granted greater weight, validity and exposure than the 98% majority.
* Where hate, outrage and death threats can be launced against others from anonymous locations without fear of confrontation or the consequences of retribution.
* Where, like Gregorian chants for the mindless unwashed masses, entire political belief systems are reduced to ethereal and meaningless, but easily-digestible slogans like “Hope And Change,” “Yes We Can” and “I;m With Her.”
* Where the need to form and develop one’s own original critical opinions and beliefs are replaced by parroting those of other’s via “Like” and “Share.”
* Where, when “triggered,” one’s world can be completely scrubbed and sanitized of uncomfortable dissenting opinions and beliefs simply by clicking on “Unfriend.”
This list goes on and on, and yet we wonder why our society has become so simplistic, polarized and entrenched? Still, this is what being herded into separate “identity silos” is all about. Anyone who believes that all of this is purely coincidental couldn’t find themselves further from the truth.
A perfect analysis. Wish I had written that.
Outstanding post of the thread. I salute you!