Give Me Liberty… Or Don’t, Who Cares
Every once in a while, I forget that the vast majority of humanity since the advent of organized farming has lived as subjects to a greater power beyond their ability to contest or question.
And then I read something like this, and I remember.
By the time my son is my age, the sentiment you read above will be the common one. The hell with liberty or freedom or self-determination. Give us soma, sex, a comfortable abdication of moral authority, a billion YouTube channels and all the distractions we cannot handle. It isn’t that Huxley was right and Orwell was wrong; it’s that Orwell was right about the ends and Huxley was right about the means.
Categorised as: What I think
I wonder. As the Man gets more and more blatant, aren’t there more and more people noticing? I was a pretty agnostic “liberal” jerkoff politically when I was young, in the eighties, and I think I might have stayed that way if the Patriot Act and two foreign wars and Obamacare hadn’t galvanized me into a kind-of-foaming-at-the-mouth Anarchist. Not the kind that lights garbage on fire, the kind that uses cryptography — I called myself a libertarian until the squares ruined that. Anyway might it just be possible that Linux and Tor and Bitcoin and that guy in Austin with the open-source machine guns will get us out of the hole that the Greatest Generation and the hippies got us into? Enough government will make anarchists of us all