I really liked the chapter about rise and fall of videocalls, specially since I read it after Covid's rise of Zoom and I related so much. The thing about people focusing too much on their own appereance in the video, how a videocall forces you to be 100% present but in a call you can be doing something else and only give a false illusion of attention and it goes both ways. And then he goes and predicts IG filters with those weird prosthetic masks people wore during videocalls.
None have predicted clown world. It's always some well-planned, ingenious mass manipulation system with those dystopias. Nobody has foreseen the complete descent into absurdity, idiocy and wilful self-destruction. Even Idiocracy is kinda wrong because it made it about genetics. Though it's the closest.
However clever those authors were, reality always one-ups them. Even Orwell would be surprised, I think, to find that you can go to jail for saying that men can't get pregnant in today's Britain.
But "woke" is a well-planned mass manipulation system.
Woke is cultural Marxism where class has been replaced with identity.
But to answer OP's question..."The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster.
He predicted NEET shut-in culture, who are parasites on the system & can't keep it functioning, back in 1909.
Wokeism has just developed as a purity spiral of leftist intellectuals beating each other over the head for not loving Black folk and homosexuals enough. And of course soulless political elites would adopt that because they're always in awe of intellectuals and want a pat on the head from them.
Agree on The Machine Stops though. Especially the part where the content-consooming morons love to "share ideas". Imagine predicting the next century this precisely!
But "woke" is a well-planned mass manipulation system.
Woke is cultural Marxism where class has been replaced with identity.
But to answer OP's question..."The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster.
He predicted NEET shut-in culture, who are parasites on the system & can't keep it functioning, back in 1909.
I am just frustrated that the right wing propaganda machine has actually stolen the concept of being "woke" from people. It's like woke should actually just mean red pilled and aware of reality, but just the basic concept of awareness of social issues has now been politicized as left wing garbage. It makes zero sense.
"woke" is an invention of the right wing. It's propaganda. There are no legitimate left wing institutions that use the term "woke" as a vehicle social change. It's a right wing weapon that attempts to defraud the rational assertions of the nebulous left. Name one left wing social leader that is an espoused promoter of something overtly called "woke".
11 months ago
Anonymous
>name one
followups to /misc/
11 months ago
Anonymous
>something overtly called "woke".
Why would they need to use the word if they can just do the thing? Among the left it's called "cultural hegemony" and "march through the institutions". Who cares who coined the word woke, it's a catchy meme to encompass a whole complex of trends and ideas in society that you can't deny if you're not moronic.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Right that's propaganda.
It's making fun of that you moron, woke is said sarcastically.
Right that's propaganda.
Oversimplifying with a catchall term and then criticizing the bulk of a groups ideas (especially political) is propaganda.
11 months ago
Anonymous
It's making fun of that you moron, woke is said sarcastically.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>It's making fun of that you moron, woke is said sarcastically.
HA
HA
HA
look at those working class whites, blacks, foreign people, etc. who want to better themselves and build a better society. I'm not a peon of propaganda, everything I do is my own choice *is in debt, very ill, under paid, has no land, has no voice in government* i love it!
I'll never get why ppl are obsessed with 1984, this book is a shitfest and a half, absolutely awful. Couldn't get through the second half. I have recently read Fahrenheit 451 and it was way better, it actually had many insightful observations and engaged the reader into doing some thinking. Peak chud west has fallen literature in my opinion.
a/o current day world we're just before the beginning (or in the middle of) the dictatorship of the air, soon to be argued into disarmament and retirement by the emergence of the society of polymaths.
I usually read the dictatorship of the air as an allegory for the totalitarianism of the global propaganda machine, since it's inherent in the name.
Hungry game
The thing is that BNW is an utopia compared to what we currently have
We do live in a utopia, we live in the lands that man dreamed of. Utopias are just always sadly disappointing.
When was this written?
The 1950s
>churches
Funny.
daniil andreev's rose of the world
Unironically, Infinite Jest.
I really liked the chapter about rise and fall of videocalls, specially since I read it after Covid's rise of Zoom and I related so much. The thing about people focusing too much on their own appereance in the video, how a videocall forces you to be 100% present but in a call you can be doing something else and only give a false illusion of attention and it goes both ways. And then he goes and predicts IG filters with those weird prosthetic masks people wore during videocalls.
Still no centrifugal bumble puppy.
None have predicted clown world. It's always some well-planned, ingenious mass manipulation system with those dystopias. Nobody has foreseen the complete descent into absurdity, idiocy and wilful self-destruction. Even Idiocracy is kinda wrong because it made it about genetics. Though it's the closest.
However clever those authors were, reality always one-ups them. Even Orwell would be surprised, I think, to find that you can go to jail for saying that men can't get pregnant in today's Britain.
But "woke" is a well-planned mass manipulation system.
Woke is cultural Marxism where class has been replaced with identity.
But to answer OP's question..."The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster.
He predicted NEET shut-in culture, who are parasites on the system & can't keep it functioning, back in 1909.
Wokeism has just developed as a purity spiral of leftist intellectuals beating each other over the head for not loving Black folk and homosexuals enough. And of course soulless political elites would adopt that because they're always in awe of intellectuals and want a pat on the head from them.
Agree on The Machine Stops though. Especially the part where the content-consooming morons love to "share ideas". Imagine predicting the next century this precisely!
I am just frustrated that the right wing propaganda machine has actually stolen the concept of being "woke" from people. It's like woke should actually just mean red pilled and aware of reality, but just the basic concept of awareness of social issues has now been politicized as left wing garbage. It makes zero sense.
"woke" is an invention of the right wing. It's propaganda. There are no legitimate left wing institutions that use the term "woke" as a vehicle social change. It's a right wing weapon that attempts to defraud the rational assertions of the nebulous left. Name one left wing social leader that is an espoused promoter of something overtly called "woke".
>name one
followups to /misc/
>something overtly called "woke".
Why would they need to use the word if they can just do the thing? Among the left it's called "cultural hegemony" and "march through the institutions". Who cares who coined the word woke, it's a catchy meme to encompass a whole complex of trends and ideas in society that you can't deny if you're not moronic.
Right that's propaganda.
Right that's propaganda.
Oversimplifying with a catchall term and then criticizing the bulk of a groups ideas (especially political) is propaganda.
It's making fun of that you moron, woke is said sarcastically.
>It's making fun of that you moron, woke is said sarcastically.
HA
HA
HA
look at those working class whites, blacks, foreign people, etc. who want to better themselves and build a better society. I'm not a peon of propaganda, everything I do is my own choice *is in debt, very ill, under paid, has no land, has no voice in government* i love it!
Camp of Saints
I'll never get why ppl are obsessed with 1984, this book is a shitfest and a half, absolutely awful. Couldn't get through the second half. I have recently read Fahrenheit 451 and it was way better, it actually had many insightful observations and engaged the reader into doing some thinking. Peak chud west has fallen literature in my opinion.
Atlas Shrugged
And no, I won't elaborate on it.
Except we're not in a dystopia, well maybe if you live in a shithole 3rd world city like in China sure.
cate hahs
>china
>bad
Meanwhile France is burning lol
Industrial Society and its Future.
H.G. Wells, STC. 1933
a/o current day world we're just before the beginning (or in the middle of) the dictatorship of the air, soon to be argued into disarmament and retirement by the emergence of the society of polymaths.
I usually read the dictatorship of the air as an allegory for the totalitarianism of the global propaganda machine, since it's inherent in the name.
also this UNKLE!
Infinite Jest