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*** SUNNY COAST LUDDITES ***
Fighting the Machine Since 1997! [*** THE VIDEO DECEPTION PROPHECY ***] |
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*** ROLY'S QUOTES COLLECTION ***
Scribed in 1997 - Fiction and Truth in the Digital Age |
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THE MOVING PICTURE LIES: WHEN SEEING IS NO LONGER BELIEVING
Hear this prophecy, fellow truth-seekers! By the year 2025, the moving pictures will become weapons of mass deception. Digital sorcery will allow the manipulation of video recordings with such perfection that human eyes cannot distinguish truth from fabrication. Presidents will appear to confess crimes they never committed. Witnesses will testify to events that never occurred. History itself will be rewritten in real-time, frame by frame, pixel by pixel. The camera, once the arbiter of truth, becomes the architect of lies! |
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PROPHECY FROM 1997: THE SYNTHETIC CELEBRITY DECEPTION Information & Reality: "In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." - Donald Miller "Information is the currency of democracy." - Thomas Jefferson "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell "The medium is the message." - Marshall McLuhan "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick Resistance & Freedom: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty." - Henry David Thoreau "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." - Andrew Lewis "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." - Dante "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist..." - Martin Niemöller |
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RESISTANCE TACTICS FOR THE POST-TRUTH VIDEO AGE
Orwellian Classics: "Big Brother is watching you." - George Orwell, 1984 "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power." - George Orwell, 1984 "If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself." - George Orwell, 1984 "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984 "The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." - George Orwell, 1984 Privacy & Surveillance: "Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite." - Marlon Brando "Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." - Edward Snowden "The right to be left alone is the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by a free people." - Justice Louis Brandeis "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin |
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THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL COLLAPSE
Technology & Control: "The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do." - B.F. Skinner "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master." - Christian Lous Lange "The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." - Douglas Adams "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke Power & Manipulation: "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - Often attributed to Orwell "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem |
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THE SOCIAL FABRIC UNRAVELS
Philosophical Warnings: "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau "The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes." - Bruce Lee "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." - Nietzsche Technology Predictions: "Where there is no vision, there is no hope." - George Washington Carver "The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating." - John Schaar "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." - Niels Bohr "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." - Gregory Benford |
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Prescient Warnings: Power and Domination: "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." - H.L. Mencken "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." - C.S. Lewis "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." - Lord Acton "The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness." - Erich Fromm "Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility." - Bertrand Russell Control and Manipulation: "The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time." - Adolf Hitler "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." - Adolf Hitler "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." - George Orwell "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Joseph Goebbels Authority and Obedience: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke "Obedience to authority is the most dangerous trait in the human species." - Stanley Milgram "The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown." - Albert Camus "Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt." - Robert Lindner Fear and Control: "No one is more enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." - Gerald Ford "Fear is the foundation of most governments." - John Adams "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson Mass Psychology: "The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error." - Gustave Le Bon "It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain "The individual has always had to struggle not to be overwhelmed by the tribe." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Goethe Institutional Control: "The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frédéric Bastiat "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master." - George Washington "The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime." - Max Stirner "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H.L. Mencken Surveillance and Privacy: "Privacy is the foundation of all other rights." - Glenn Greenwald "A surveillance state is incompatible with democracy." - Bernie Sanders "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything." - Edward Snowden "Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free." - Edward Snowden "Mass surveillance is a mass structural change. When society goes through structural changes you have generational effects." - Edward Snowden Human Nature and Power: "Man is by nature a political animal." - Aristotle "The desire to rule is the mother of all evil." - Aeschylus "Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies." - Jane Austen "The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights." - H.L. Mencken "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." - Honoré de Balzac |
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THE SAYINGS OF WISER MEN
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