There’s a short story, maybe 80 pages long, called The Machine Stops, by E.M. Forster, who wrote it in 1909. It describes a world where machines do practically everything for people, who as a result become rather vegetative.
Very prescient. I just watched the latest three Star Trek movies. There was no use of the holodeck in those movies. Perhaps showing it would make people think too much. What I really took away from those movies upon rewatching them was the lack of depth to the characters and the story as a whole. I love action, and it was present in spades, but I sure didn't feel or think anything as a result of watching. The shallowness of our current media and entertainment may be having a greater effect on us than we realize.
On the holodeck, January 6 was an "Insurrection!" If so, it was the most peaceful one in history. The reality is that it was mostly a false flag operation.
The holodeck sounds like a better tactic for discussing the information war. It deescalates emotions vs me saying to a person, "You are really wound up, do you think it's possible you are an unwitting tool in the hands of a Statist pagan order waging an informational war (vs kinetic) against Christians, moral order, individual rights, and Natural Law?"
There’s a short story, maybe 80 pages long, called The Machine Stops, by E.M. Forster, who wrote it in 1909. It describes a world where machines do practically everything for people, who as a result become rather vegetative.
YOU ARE STILL MAKING ME BUY MORE BOOKS.
Very prescient. I just watched the latest three Star Trek movies. There was no use of the holodeck in those movies. Perhaps showing it would make people think too much. What I really took away from those movies upon rewatching them was the lack of depth to the characters and the story as a whole. I love action, and it was present in spades, but I sure didn't feel or think anything as a result of watching. The shallowness of our current media and entertainment may be having a greater effect on us than we realize.
On the holodeck, January 6 was an "Insurrection!" If so, it was the most peaceful one in history. The reality is that it was mostly a false flag operation.
Fahrenheit 451 was amazingly prophetic.
The holodeck sounds like a better tactic for discussing the information war. It deescalates emotions vs me saying to a person, "You are really wound up, do you think it's possible you are an unwitting tool in the hands of a Statist pagan order waging an informational war (vs kinetic) against Christians, moral order, individual rights, and Natural Law?"
You do crack me up.
Another great article! I love the analogy between social/mass media and holodeck!