Panopticon

You're damned right.


My Polara has four ashtrays and no cupholders.


That's right, two in the dash, one on either side, and one in each rear armrest.


I may have to go to the junkyard and get some pieces-parts and then fashion something.
 
That might work for the ones in the back. The ones in the front are very slanted and would leak your Kool-Aid out into your shoe.
 
I awoke in my cell this morning with the feeling that I was being watched. Decided to stay on my best behavior just in case.
 
I'm sorry, but I'm in it for the long haul.




Rosco, when the entirety of the nation is that of police observation, then what is it if not general population?
 
For some of us, then just as soon as another Republican is elected...


Then they're going to be like former Senator Obama on the Bush drone program.
 
I'm sorry, but I'm in it for the long haul.




Rosco, when the entirety of the nation is that of police observation, then what is it if not general population?

The Thought Police thing is bad enough (keeping subversive thoughts to yourself because the TV is watching you), but it's the idea of actually internalizing Big Brother that's horrifying. Totalitarian methods were shown to work not so well. The all-pervasive sphere of modern media-culture-internet discourse-advertising-education-propaganda is more effective.

The killer drones are supposed to be a dark hint at the edges of awareness, like those assassin AI's in Iain Bank's Culture books.
 
Because TV is watching me?

TV is giving me the message to live my life by and everyone else is watching me.

Maybe even my kid...


;) ;)

They are not killer drones, just watchers and reporters.

And they do not have to kill; their power is in denial of all-encompassing Federal largess. Your behavior is wrong, you get no access, and in order to create benefit, we have, of necessity had to dry up your pool of alternatives.
 
Der Sieg wird unser sein,



aber es kann eine sehr lange Zeit in Anspruch nehmen.
 
We will have to rise from the ashes.


No one is about to be the first to be removed from the teat after having fought for so long for a nipple.
 
The liberalism you'd like to see destroyed & its fields sown with salt is nothing less than postmodern global capitalism itself and its general cultural effects. The only hope for that is widespread systemic breakdown at the technological-economic level; which isn't entirely impossible by any means, although that hope makes for strange political bedfellows.
 
The liberalism you'd like to see destroyed & its fields sown with salt is nothing less than postmodern global capitalism itself and its general cultural effects. The only hope for that is widespread systemic breakdown at the technological-economic level; which isn't entirely impossible by any means, although that hope makes for strange political bedfellows.

I disagree.

It is anything but Capitalism.

It is a marriage between the big and powerful and government designed to eliminate the competition for the both.

It is also a replacement of the objective for the subjective in morality.
 
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