tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post6508479237282067464..comments2024-03-12T20:20:35.830-05:00Comments on Organizing Notes: Libraries Closing - Save Net NeutralityBruce K. Gagnonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845856861232395427noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post-34507641606957871022017-07-18T04:49:23.117-05:002017-07-18T04:49:23.117-05:00I spent an hour in the cool downstairs of a public...I spent an hour in the cool downstairs of a public library in central Maine yesterday. Not a single person came into the children's section while I was there. Upstairs, people were only looking at computers, not books. I was the only mom I knew 20 years ago who wouldn't let my children have a gaming system in our home. Screen culture has now made practically everyone a potential drone operator, and effectively hastened the death of books.Lisa Savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06319699936783253064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post-91578028177878875162017-07-09T23:45:13.037-05:002017-07-09T23:45:13.037-05:00O, brave new world, that has such creatures in it!...O, brave new world, that has such creatures in it!<br /><br />I got that quote from a book which most libraries were forced to remove from circulation if not surrendering the books themselves. There's a second book in the series Brave New World, Revisited, which put forth the science, now 6 decades since it's publishing, the first book as science and political described. A throw-away economy, coerced thought and speech conformity, dressed up as progress, leisure, fun, freedom.<br /><br />Where people used the slogans they heard constantly, repeated by their own speech, confessing something they said so often they believed it. It has a name, the technique. <br />Many names, in fact. Conditioned Reflexes, Pavlovian Conditioning, Brainwashing. It had been an art form until the last 150 years. When it was established as a method of training a dog or a human to believe. What to believe? Anything They tell us to believe. Hearing the sad untruths only comes to a bigger and badder part. It's not listening to the affirmations that changes our perception so drastically. It's when WE join the chorus. When the Savage begins to speak the lies to himself or any other, maybe go along to get along, knowing it's a lie but pretending to believe, makes you or me or him actually believe. <br /><br />Sad, eh? They were burning the first Brave New World as soon as it was published, and the people would be told that it was denied to them because it's "porn". People still chant that reasoning. People who never read the book because they were told that it was porn.<br /><br />Aldous Huxley died about the time I was born, Eisenhower was still president.Brother Jonahhttp://notmytribe.comnoreply@blogger.com