Ministry of “truth”. Was Gerorge Orwell a Prophet?

[Farny]

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[the MfM]

This is the only place I’ve ever been banished from.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

I don’t know if he was a profit, but many aspects of Animal Farm and more over 1984 are prevalent today. I think 1984 had “the memory hole” but it’s been many moons since I read that. Don’t forget Ayn Rand’s “The Fountain Head” (great movie with Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper) and “Atlas Shrugged” (The Aristocracy of Pull) as well. All four of those books should be required reading in school.

Never got banned from a platform, just one forum for pointing out the obvious. That was just one of the reasons I got rid of social media years and years ago. I made a list of all the positives in my life and the negatives, then removed all the negatives that I had control of, including people, some I’d known for decades, and the quality of my life increased a lot.

 

[Coult45]

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Nope.

 

[Jim_in_Delaware]

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No.

Jim

 

[Farny]

I don’t know if he was a profit, but many aspects of Animal Farm and more over 1984 are prevalent today. I think 1984 had “the memory hole” but it’s been many moons since I read that. Don’t forget Ayn Rand’s “The Fountain Head” (great movie with Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper) and “Atlas Shrugged” (The Aristocracy of Pull) as well. All four of those books should be required reading in school.

Never got banned from a platform, just one forum for pointing out the obvious. That was just one of the reasons I got rid of social media years and years ago. I made a list of all the positives in my life and the negatives, then removed all the negatives that I had control of, including people, some I’d known for decades, and the quality of my life increased a lot.

Healthy approach to creating more positivity. I’ll have to check out Atlas Shrugged.

I think we could also add “A brave new world” Huxley.

By the way I’ve never been banned from any, but I have been restricted from contributing on a topic.

 

[Billtex2000]

Posts have been taken down on LinkedIn and Facebook, some labeled "Sensitive Content." Got a 30 day rip from Facebook and couldn't post on Group Forums (big deal) for some "Vac*i*ne" article I posted.

 

[Farny]

Posts have been taken down on LinkedIn and Facebook, some labeled "Sensitive Content." Got a 30 day rip from Facebook and couldn't post on Group Forums (big deal) for some "Vac*i*ne" article I posted.

You get the coveted Facebook jail trophy.

 

[Farny]

One of my favorite quotes. “If you’re afraid to offend you can’t be honest” - Thomas Payne

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Healthy approach to creating more positivity. I’ll have to check out Atlas Shrugged.

I think we could also add “A brave new world” Huxley.

By the way I’ve never been banned from any, but I have been restricted from contributing on a topic.

Ah! Totally forgot about Brave New World! Need a Soma? Now that is apropos in today’s world. Between prescription drugs, over powering caffeine drinks from coffee to “sports drinks”, then plenty of alcohol to anesthetize at night.

One of my favorite quotes from The Fountainhead; “You can only have a rational conversation with a rational person”

 

[BlkGS]

Only ever been banned from here.

I think it was less of a prophecy and more of a logical extension of how to control people. Control of information and narratives drives peoples truth, leaders have known this forever. It's just now the scale.of these operations has increased massively with the internet and social media and the like. Add in that you can create fake people incredibly easily and convincingly...

It's only getting worse. Have you seen what you can do with AI nowdays? Watched a very convincing video of Morgan Freeman talking about reality, that he had nothing to do with. AI took pictures and videos of him and generated it based off a video a guy made, it mimicked his speech and movements, but put it with Morgan freeman's appearance and voice. We are on the cusp of making completely fake videos something that can be done by a single person with a motive. People will be able to make fake videos of people saying horrible things... Or make them just offensive enough to be believable for a true character assassination.

We live in dark times that are only getting darker as the "tech" industry does things with no regard for if they should, and we will all suffer for their recklessness.

 

[Julian]

Never been banned anywhere.

Yes we've had to give a few people timeouts here due to our no politics rule. Our members voted that if you want to discuss politics go do it somewhere else. It's been the hardest, and most unpleasant chore here.

 

[Coult45]

Never been banned anywhere.

Yes we've had to give a few people timeouts here due to our no politics rule. Our members voted that if you want to discuss politics go do it somewhere else. It's been the hardest, and most unpleasant chore here.

This relatively new member values that decision, commitment, and ongoing effort enormously.

 

[the MfM]

This relatively new member values that decision, commitment, and ongoing effort enormously.

It would be even better if applied consistently to all members.

 

[seanmclean]

It would be even better if applied consistently to all members.

 

[Coult45]

It would be even better if applied consistently to all members.

That’s definitely a fair expectation.

 

[BlkGS]

It would be even better if applied consistently to all members.

If you sit on one side.of the fence bs the other it is. But if you're on the wrong side, everything is political and across the line.

Either way, shouldn't this be in off topic so we can talk about boats and I can complain about not getting to use mine cuz reasons?

 

[Farny]

If you sit on one side.of the fence bs the other it is. But if you're on the wrong side, everything is political and across the line.

Either way, shouldn't this be in off topic so we can talk about boats and I can complain about not getting to use mine cuz reasons?

I believe this is in general off topic, unless I made a mistake. If I did my bad I apologize

 

[Coult45]

I believe this is in general off topic, unless I made a mistake. If I did my bad I apologize

it's in the right spot.

 

[BlkGS]

I believe this is in general off topic, unless I made a mistake. If I did my bad I apologize

I thought it was in general discussion. I'm probably just losing my mind, I'm on toddler time.