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Touch screens are vastly more effective than the telescreens in "1984," because they "let" you keep YOURSELF under surveillance every minute

The surest way to keep us under totalitarian control has been to have us go and stay there "willingly"

Mark Crispin Miller

Nov 16, 2023

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The appearance of the touch screen marks a milestone in the Age of the New Subjugation, A.K.A. the Digital Age, where you let your fingers do the walking and you shut your mind, close your mouth and comply. Having a control button between us and the screen somehow affirmed that we are not the machine and the machine R NOT us…

19 days ago · 10 likes · 2 comments · Jerry Newfield

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Nov 16Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

We are all addicted to the dopamine buttons. Instant communications. Faster than cocaine.

Like sex with little commitment. Push button

Ecstasy. We were lucky to grow up without these

Contraptions.

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