26:44 "The wall ended the exodus of refugees that had threatened the existence of the East German State, but it was a desperate measure, and like many desperate measures in Politics, it seemed a little insane."
Then, the party member Alfred, who is being interviewed, admits that the wall was built to have more time to build a socialist utopia, and he insists that things got better after the wall. The gall of these people!!!
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I admire how twisted the propagandists at BBC are. I use exaggeration for comedy, they use understatments like "seemed a little insane" to induce a sense of tragedy.
Many people will miss how understatements imply a degree of support for the causal actors of the tragedy.
It's much more effective the understatement, probably because most people expect tragedy.
Mene mene tekel upharsin. From the book of Daniel. The advent of the revolution, or how bad things complete the cycle only to start again.
The new walls are enthusiastically being taken up by the west. Using tech instead of brick and mortar. Much better optics. No bullets no beatings no death camps etc. Just tech to surveil is and drive us mad. In the long term tech may be more effective than the Berlin wall, And it's being deployed globally. With tech you can be controlled down to the last detail. And while we snooze it is going global. Cameras everywhere, data mining everywhere. For all we know our phones & Alexis are listening to us for more than benign reasons. No need for snitches because we snitch on ourselves just by engaging in things like posting:) But not to worry, there'll still be plenty of ways we can find to disappoint our friends. Perhaps without even knowing or intending.
It appears the bullets used to enforce the new walls will be bio tech and mass psychosis brain washing. Certainly we've spent enough DARPA money on it so we can assume we'll get return for our buck. Surely everyone noticed we were bio attacked, locked down, six foot distanced, masked up, turned against each other ... And in the interlude between bio attacks (the equivalent of bullets because of the lethality) we are all getting sicker and sicker and progressively poisoned. If they can work their magic well enough well be so demoralized we'll all just refrain from thought crimes or in any other way trying to breach the constraints
Knock down the walls because the lab rats are already caged. We'll become like electric fenced bovines. Leave the fence up long enough and one day the fence comes down and the cows stay put. They've been stung too many times already to think they can get away with breaching the boundary
26:44 "The wall ended the exodus of refugees that had threatened the existence of the East German State, but it was a desperate measure, and like many desperate measures in Politics, it seemed a little insane."
Then, the party member Alfred, who is being interviewed, admits that the wall was built to have more time to build a socialist utopia, and he insists that things got better after the wall. The gall of these people!!!
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I admire how twisted the propagandists at BBC are. I use exaggeration for comedy, they use understatments like "seemed a little insane" to induce a sense of tragedy.
Many people will miss how understatements imply a degree of support for the causal actors of the tragedy.
It's much more effective the understatement, probably because most people expect tragedy.
Mene mene tekel upharsin. From the book of Daniel. The advent of the revolution, or how bad things complete the cycle only to start again.
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Musical interlude:
I don't need no arms around me
I don't need no drugs to calm me
I have seen the writing on the wall
Don't think I need anything at all
No, don't think I need anything at all
All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall
All in all, you were all just bricks in the wall
Another Brick in the Wall, part 3
by Roger Waters and Pink Floyd
The new walls are enthusiastically being taken up by the west. Using tech instead of brick and mortar. Much better optics. No bullets no beatings no death camps etc. Just tech to surveil is and drive us mad. In the long term tech may be more effective than the Berlin wall, And it's being deployed globally. With tech you can be controlled down to the last detail. And while we snooze it is going global. Cameras everywhere, data mining everywhere. For all we know our phones & Alexis are listening to us for more than benign reasons. No need for snitches because we snitch on ourselves just by engaging in things like posting:) But not to worry, there'll still be plenty of ways we can find to disappoint our friends. Perhaps without even knowing or intending.
It appears the bullets used to enforce the new walls will be bio tech and mass psychosis brain washing. Certainly we've spent enough DARPA money on it so we can assume we'll get return for our buck. Surely everyone noticed we were bio attacked, locked down, six foot distanced, masked up, turned against each other ... And in the interlude between bio attacks (the equivalent of bullets because of the lethality) we are all getting sicker and sicker and progressively poisoned. If they can work their magic well enough well be so demoralized we'll all just refrain from thought crimes or in any other way trying to breach the constraints
Knock down the walls because the lab rats are already caged. We'll become like electric fenced bovines. Leave the fence up long enough and one day the fence comes down and the cows stay put. They've been stung too many times already to think they can get away with breaching the boundary