“But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
Neil Postman
“to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think”
That sums up the iCrap pretty well.
Remember when people feared a future when Big Brother would microchip everyone?
Today we all *volunteer* for the chip, or it has become a necessary part of business. What else does the state use our cellular phones to do, but track us like cattle on the state’s pasture?
We get the world to which our neighbors consent, or at least to which they acquiesce.
This is why history is impulsive. It is anything but random. It is clearly cyclical, patterned and a fractal.
Western Civilization has had a number of “knights” (different Western empires) and it is today’s Captain of those knights, the USA, that most exemplifies the disconnect between the mythology of the West and its visible truth.
Viewed from afar, the USA could not be a better representation of a sclerotic, rotting, rudderless empire, whose only God is the kiss-up, kick-down might-makes-right of moral relativism.