"however, you are quite at liberty to take food home from the market once the dining halls have been supplied, for everyone knows you wouldn't do it unless you had to. i mean, no one likes eating at home, although there's no rule against it. for one thing it's considered rather bad form, for another, it seems silly to go to all the trouble of preparing an inferior meal when there an absolutely delicious one waiting for you in the dining-hall just down the street." thomas more from utopia._________________a communal society is an observed society..behavior surveillance and modification through peer pressure rather than state coercion...self-policing for the oligarchy...no wonder the teleolgists love thomas more..i wonder if b f skinner read this_______
today's n y times...
had a "special advertising section" wrapped around the outside of the paper so you'd see it first..
it folded out...
into a four page spread...
all about the need for vigilance and security in the face of an increasingly dangerous, divided, and hostile world...
with a kicker on the back to make sure that adrenaline rush of fear ( greatest marketing tool ever! ) grabs hold as tightly as the marketer wants it to be...impelling the purchase...from more to orwell with stalin and hitler's paranoia thrown in, authoritarians and oligarch have always been obsessed with what "the mob" is up to and what they're thinking...it's the source of more's love for the communal...the catholic church's and every secular religion you care to name as well...the 1% are oligarchs and no exception tot his..the want public and private surveillance and orwell's telescreens are not long off ( i am using one of the grates surveillance tools the elites possess at the moment...google is eating this stuff up and laughing all the way to the bank...facebook too..just so we know i am alert to this...i am not feeling naive today )...they need to know...fortunately the are not all that good at understanding the non-linearity of causality..oh they say they do but in their heart of hearts they think they "know" where human history is heading and that they can control it...this is nonsense..human cognition is limited and we are in the environment...part of it...not external as the self-absorbed wealthy and their lackey economists would tell us..they can watch us..we watch as well..and the planet will have the final say.
and just to show we are dealing with an paper aimed at an elite audience, here's an advertisement from today's n y times magazine for a watch no one on my block will buy...some wanna-bes may like the idea...but it is not in their price range and not nearly utilitarian enough.
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