recent Huxley misc and perpetual Orwell book

[Joseph Tracy]

Nice response, Monte. particularly liked the paragraph below.  But all thoughtful, funny shit. 

Looks to me like totalitarianism post 2000 is a nasty blend of Orwell and Huxley. Plenty of distractions and feelies, but in case you are hacking into secrets or exposing embarassing information, well, Big Brother has his eye on the sparrow and he’s watching you too, case you got any smart ideas, because you might want to read up on Bagram prison, Abu Graibh, what happens when the gloves come off..
> On Jan 24, 2016, at 2:23 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> You don't have to walk all the way with Freud to agree that parent-child and adult-child asymmetries of power and knowledge -- and the kinks those inevitably weave into *non*-sexual love/trust/dependency -- are so universal that it would be amazing if they *didn't* recur widely in sexual love/trust/dependency... AND in the social/political power asymmetries of slurpin' up that soma, lovin' Big Brother, and putting your erection in the hands of multinationals.

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