Re: Request to remove Information
On Thursday 24 November 2005 10:11, marc wrote:
>Gene Heskett said...
>
>> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 14:35, marc wrote:
>> >Katipo said...
>> >
>> >> The evolutionary path of the corporate politician.
>> >> And nobody permitted to climb to any 'higher level', within the
>> >> organisation, until the ethical base of the individual has been
>> >> appropriately compromised.
>> >>
>> >> History is full of examples of nations attempting to change
>> >> nations, families attempting to change families, and individuals
>> >> attempting to bring about change in individuals, when the only way
>> >> change can be brought about in the external environment, is by way
>> >> of change within the individual.
>> >>
>> >> What happens when the individual no longer exists?
>> >>
>> >> Because, in the future, existence without the organisation is
>> >> going to become increasingly difficult.
>> >> The 'organisation' is extending its boundaries to match
>> >> nationalistic ones, and the new ethic will be taught from birth.
>> >
>> >It's a brave new world ;-)
>>
>> Isn't this the scenario George Orwell tried to warn us about 21 years
>> ago? Sure bears an amazing resemblance.
>
>'1984' was published in 1949. You'd have thought he'd feel a bit more
>positive after WWII, but I guess he wasn't to be fooled. 'Brave new
>world' was published in 1932.
1984 I read as a teenager, BNW was 2 years before I was born, so I
guess I was never properly introduced to that one, although I'm sure my
alky uncle who introed me to sci-fi way back then must have had a copy
on his bookshelf. I gobbled up the Doc Smith stuff as soon as I got
past McGuffies Readers.
Huh? Oh, yeah, doddering old fart, thats me.
>And the insatiable power-junkies in our employ, er, politicos. like to
>think that they're *so* "modern", "progressive" and continually "moving
>forward" :-o
Yeah, but somehow the fact that they ARE in our employ seems to be lost
on most of them...
>
>Personally, I prefer BNW's irony to 1984's. 1984 is geared toward the
>state taking control by force, whereas BNW has folk being far more
>compliant. Chillingly accurate. Probably not for you if you bought an
>iPod, though ;-)
No sorry, haven't yet, I'm not that much of a background noise junkie.
>I sometimes think that the world I live in is Huxleys', whereas the
>world I perceive through the media is Orwell's.
Right on. Darnit.
--
Cheers, Gene
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