The totalitarian moral busybodies are at it again. They are evil enough to use 1984 as an instruction manual rather than as a warning, but they seem to be stupid enough to spell out our plans to us in the style of a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain.
Watch this video from “Big Think” and get ready to feel sick to the stomach.
Despite the constant attacks on Free Speech we’ve endured over the last few decades, we’ve always kept up a remarkably robust defense. That has been changing in the last few years, however. The enemies of freedom are using artificial intelligence to create algorithms that will detect and silence us. We may still have some time before their methods are sophisticated enough to be effective, but we don’t have much. And once this battle is lost, it is lost for good.
Just read this sentence from that video’s description to see the chilling 1984-style thinking that is going into this work:
“Sarah Ruger sees the road toward social peace as one where neuroscientists, technologists, conflict resolution theorists and philosophers all work together to create a digital culture that brings out the best in humanity, not the worst.”
If there is good news in this, it lies in the like/dislike ratio: 153 likes and 277 dislikes as of the time of writing, and this is in an audience that likely has just as many people on the left as on the right, if not more. People are horrified and disgusted by this, and we have to turn this horror and disgust into action, and we need to do it soon.
This should be a wake-up call to anyone who still thinks we have freedom of speech in this country. The detection and persecution of Wrongthinkers has entered a whole new era, where “Trusted flaggers” from globalist NGOs will soon be replaced by AI that may become more sophisticated that it will know what you are going to say before you say it. At that time literal Thoughtcrime will be punished, and rebellion will become more than impossible, it will be actually unthinkable.
I’ll leave you with this famous quote from C.S. Lewis, which is more applicable now than ever:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
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I appreciate C.S. Lewis, but I disagree that these people ‘… may be more likely to go to Heaven…’. There is no place for tyrants in Heaven. The rest is spot on.
Yeah that’s the only part of his quote where I don’t agree.
That Lewis quote is very apropos and one I have heard (and liked) for a while.
There have also been a number of sci-fi moves and books based on the idea of conformation either through technology, drugs or fear. One I like that uses the drug method is Equilibrium. People have to take a dose of a drug every day to suppress emotion and art is outlawed and destroyed when found. Life is a bleak, bland existence where music, paintings and joy are treated as cocaine and meth are now, with SWAT teams and execution for the users.
And how exactly would these “smart people” create a digital culture? Culture arises when you let a group of people interact for a time. You can’t “create” a culture, unless you control the group of people, or how they interact. Neither sounds pleasant.