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I see anti-establishment, but I see neither pompous or self-righteous - nor does being anti-establishment imply pomposity or self-righteousness. I wonder how y
by madaxe_again 12y ago
I see anti-establishment, but I see neither pompous or self-righteous - nor does being anti-establishment imply pomposity or self-righteousness.
I wonder how you'd view this piece if you realised it wasn't written by Assange, rather just him re-posting an article from a magazine.
Priming's a bitch - and 1984's Big Brother is a perfectly apt analogue for the surveillance apparatus's influence on the control of the range of human thought - or do you disagree that limiting speech and culturally enforced self-censorship limits thoughts and ideas?
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- golergka 12y agoI think that I didn't convey what I meant, so I'm going to re-phrase it a little bit (and also copy to other replies, since apparently I can't edit the comment). When I see someone referencing 1984, I think of them as conspiracy theorist and don't take them seriously. I do it because I'm an idiot. But I share this trait with a majority of population. We are born and die idiots. I can't defend the "position" of being an idiot; but that's who I am and I can't change it. Neither can millions of people. So, if you want to persuade these millions, you have to take their (our) idiocy into account.