Is irony dead?

A student is detained after reading passages of Nineteen Eighty-Four over an intercom.

Who knew that I was so dangerous?

As to have my government spy on me for decades.

The People's Republic of China is perfecting surveillance

And they couldn't do it without American technology.

How to train a soldier to kill

"One British veteran of the Falklands, trained in the modern method [of desensitization and conditioning], told Holmes that he 'thought of the enemy as nothing more or less than Figure II [man-shaped] targets.'"

The discussion about the least terrifying surveillance

Is this what it has come to?

Britain a surveillance society

Big Brother is slowly coming into my backyard.

America's perpetual militarism

From the Cold War to terrorists to the People's Republic of China?

It's easier to control the masses

Whne the majority of them can't read.

There is no good news

When you must have 50% good news.

The Evil Empire

The People's Republic of China doesn't want you to think.

Surveillance Society

My home has now installed cameras that tell you what to do.

I am right

My political agenda is the only one that can avert tragedy.

Why?

Why did you do this to me?

Required Reading

• Harry G. Frankfurt - On Bullshit


• Plato (via Allen Bloom) - The Republic


• Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death


• Yevgeny Zamyatin - We


• Alduous Huxley - Brave New World


• George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four


• Allen Bloom - The Closing of the American Mind


• Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

Manifesto

This is the world in which we live:

• American youth think the press has too much constitutional freedom.


• There is one state-run video camera for every fourteen Britons.


• An inhabited island in a sovereign state has disappeared due to environmental destruction.


• They love Big Brother. And they're raising the next generation.

A manifesto is:

a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.

My intentions: to save the world from itself. My opinion: the vacuum of critical thought in humanity has been replaced with self-destruction. My objective: to make humanity realize that it is constantly lying to itself. My motive: love. Come with me; we'll make a finer world.