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This thesis seems uncannily similar to the central theme in Huxley’s Brave New World, translated into Marxist academic language. Nevertheless, these ideas are h
by chongli 7y ago
This thesis seems uncannily similar to the central theme in Huxley’s Brave New World, translated into Marxist academic language. Nevertheless, these ideas are highly relevant in our social media and mass media dominated world.
At this point, they may now have become so obvious that they’re cliché.
- fit2rule 7y agoThings becoming cliché is how you know that beingness has supplanted havingness, with doingness long gone out the window. A society which puts more attention on the results of an activity rather than the factuality of the actions is long on its way out. Witness for example, modern America's relationship with its illegal wars: nobody wants to know what America is really doing, as long as the result is attained...