On 06/28/2015 10:19 AM, rysiek wrote:
It was Huxley, not Orwell, who was right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
More Huxley than Orwell perhaps, but one look at the downtown shopping district in my 'hood and you'll see cctv cams everywhere and undeputized private patrol security guards on the street literally blackshirting young people, the poor, and displaced workers (Blackshirting... like making up illegitimate definitions of laws and ganging up on people who refuse to comply. I dialed 911 on these thugs one day when three of them surrounded me for sitting at a perfectly legal streetside window-ledge and when the officer arrived I was refused a citation that I was more than willing to take b/c the officer couldn't legally cite me.) But the book is an excellent read and available from LibCom Anarchist Library: https://libcom.org/library/amusing-ourselves-death-public-discourse-age-show... Direct link to pdf: https://libcom.org/files/Neil%20Postman%20-%20Amusing%20Ourselves%20to%20Dea... RR