The Rise of Fascism in a Brave New Digital World

[armati]

“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.” – Aldous Huxley

We are watching Huxley’s dystopian vision of a Brave New World controlled by state-sanctioned addiction unfold right before our eyes. And true to Huxley’s prescience, we rather enjoy it. The only surprise is that the operative pharmacological agents he warned against aren’t delivered in pill or liquid or other physical form, and we don’t call them soma or heroin or crystal meth or crack. They’re delivered in bits and bytes instead, and we call them media. Consider…

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[2dimes]

Smart phones and delicious processed food.

[mrswdk]

'The media' is not some new thing that has emerged over the last few decades. Newspapers have been around for hundreds of years.

[Dukasaur]

'The media' is not some new thing that has emerged over the last few decades. Newspapers have been around for hundreds of years.

Newspapers were read during specific and finite intervals. People read their newspaper either during breakfast, or after dinner, or on Saturday afternoon. It was a time with a clear beginning and a clear end.

Other forms of media similarly had clearly defined intervals. When I was a kid we watched TV on Sunday night between 6 pm and 9 pm. Other families watched more often, but still at defined times.

The new conception of media as something that we assault ourselves with every waking minute of the day definitely has emerged over the last few decades.

[strike wolf]

The internet has given us the quickest way to gain information in the history of man. Most people my age and younger use it to see if they can get any quasi-celebrities to like their instachat tweets.

Or complain about other people using the internet for trivial things.

[mrswdk]

'The media' is not some new thing that has emerged over the last few decades. Newspapers have been around for hundreds of years.

Newspapers were read during specific and finite intervals. People read their newspaper either during breakfast, or after dinner, or on Saturday afternoon. It was a time with a clear beginning and a clear end.

Other forms of media similarly had clearly defined intervals. When I was a kid we watched TV on Sunday night between 6 pm and 9 pm. Other families watched more often, but still at defined times.

The new conception of media as something that we assault ourselves with every waking minute of the day definitely has emerged over the last few decades.

I only check the news a couple of times a day. There are other things to do, ya know.