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Scientists lie?
On Friday, February 13, 2015 at 6:42:39 AM UTC-8, Drew Lawson wrote:
In article Hypatia Nachshon writes: But our whole capitalist-driven social structure (and I am a card-carrying capitalist but with a human heart!) is directed at creating an educational system [chuckle] whose aim is to turn out consumers of [often bad] products people don't really need, and [almost always bad] ideas that profit only Our Corporate Masters and their whore-lackeys in Congress. I read Brave New World somewhere around 1983. I recall finding the component about obligatory consumption to be silly hyperbole. I've re-read it every few year since [censored date] and it gets scarier every time, as technology and above all VALLUES catch up to prescient prediction.(Can one say that?) Same, incidentally, with "1984", which I read first as a university student way back when. I did not sleep well for a week. Next time I tried to read it, I was too scared to finish. It took years till I could approach it again. Meantime, technology is rapidly catching up to Big Brother... I now think that Huxley's presentation was understated. Amen! HB -- Drew Lawson ". . . And I never give a reason" -- God, as channeled by Seven Nations |
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