they can't say it in so many words - why would we expect them to? - but having been spoon or forcefed loads of reprogramming and J Saccoing and so on, they know, deep down, that more is coming. this is laughed off by the ppl who deep down expect to rule this new world.
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ow holmes, the "fire in a crowded theater man," also wrote that "you can't argue a man into liking a glass of beer." soon you won't even be about to argue about the taste of a beer if the beer holds all the right positions and you hold no positions at all, right or otherwise
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and it's not lost on me that these words, which i'll likely recapitulate in a mini-podcast sometime in the future, are right now consigned to a privately-owned platform that doesn't even employ me (for free, the only work I do "pro bono" anywhere)
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eventually,"Kids," you'll have no place where any word cannot be heard, seen, processed, and counted for or against you. we're close to it now. the game is over. the "debate" abt free speech, then, has ended. now we wait and watch and see which technologies effect all this change
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS
hey oliver, thanks for this. what do you mean exactly? That we are entering the age of a surveillance state and "free speech" will be impossible?
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if we want to work a job and have our thoughts be shared and perhaps even speak behind closed or semi closed doors, yes. The sort of corporate HR stuff coming down the line is ideological beyond the workplace, so the workers must be watched beyond the workplace.
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The latter won't exist in the US outside of paycheck withholding, the rest will be private bosses and managers and counselors and trainers saving our souls w a combination of public and private revenues
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS
this is quite a terrifying diagnosis and I hope that a workers' movement will prevail to prevent this. freedom of thought and speech are so foundational and important, and very important to the American working class especially.
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i do too. i don't know if it will succeed here. perhaps it will elsewhere. but the goal of the most strategically shrewd people in the US, I think, is to become a kind of 21st century golden-age Argentina: exporting "imagineering," building up a few cities, letting the rest go
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the conflict here will be, should it manifest at all, between those who want a diversified "national economy" (as michael lind notes) and those who want an extractive, dirt-cheap neo-feudal "imagination" economy of the rich, their cat's paws, and the rest as a great useless mass
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