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[ineffabelle]

protection is a living death
yes is the answer
what you give away
comes back stronger
soled my soul
for a long walk
going nowhere slowly
I just did it cause
I enjoy the view
and there's nothing else
to do
and I'll see you there
for sure
at the end of it all
so you might as well
walk with me too
keep our own company
put on your shoes
and walk off those
walking blues.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket

Thoughts? I am wondering how your perspective is developing in this regard.

let 10000 flowers bloom

[ineffabelle]

Hehe that's a good model for modern "society" right there. That and the prisoner's dilemma, depending on which facet you're looking at.

Well, I've got a much more subtle understanding of the whole thing these days, I think. It's hard to write about on LJ because I'm too keenly aware of my audience and their ideological biases.

But hopefully it will all find its way into at least one book.

I think 1984 was an allegory, not a prediction. They're just more subtle in real life, is all.

I happen to think that only two things can possibly get us out of this trap, that I can see:
1. An increase in both information AND disinformation, spreading wildly, will engender skepticism as a natural reaction, if only for survival's sake. Skepticism will make centralized control impossible, on any level.
2. The complexity of the scale of human problems will overstretch the ability of the elite to handle them. Crisis after crisis will strain our "systems" to the point where people have to abandon them in order to function at all.

These two things are related of course. People may be seriously damaged by their childhood programming but the survival instinct is still strong enough in enough of them, that they will eventually come through.
Once they do, the amount of human creativity unleashed should dwarf whatever lingering damage or side-effect remains. This of course is exactly what the Poison Mythos warns against, this upsurge of individual self-actualization. Because it will utterly annihilate the past, so to speak (as a set of quasi-permanent institutions, at any rate). Remix culture will make monkeys of our gods. And our gods have always feared this inevitability.

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