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Podcast: The RageCast by Jeremy MacKenzie
Episode: 🏴 RageCast 284: WAR IS PEACE
Description: Orwell's 1984 appears to have been interpreted as an instructional manual on global control rather than a warning about unchecked state power.
In a darkly amusing way, the world has never been closer to world war since the end of the last while simultaneously being entirely ignorant and unconcerned with the risk. If you study history, you'll find this is the norm, not the exception.
It would be nice if more people could be alert to the danger posed to all of us by deeply insane maniacs with unprecedented levels of control on information - but...