This insanity is endless...

[Norder]

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also see: 40yrs previous to Orwell - The Iron Heel, by Jack London (1908)



“We will grind you revolutionists down under our heel, and we shall walk upon your faces.
The world is ours, we are its lords, and ours it shall remain. As for the host of labor, it has been in the dirt since history began,
and I read history aright. And in the dirt it shall remain so long as I and mine and those that come after us have the power.
There is the word. It is the king of words—Power. Not God, not Mammon, but Power. Pour it over your tongue till it tingles with it. Power.”

I do not accept the deity of the Machine !

E.M Forster - The Machine Stops (1909) His concerns about the future of humanity - the consequences of human dependence on Technology..

The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation below ground in a standard room, with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the Omnipotent, Global Machine. Travel is permitted, but is unpopular and rarely necessary. Communication is made via a kind of instant messaging/video conferencing machine with which people conduct their only activity: the sharing of ideas and what passes for knowledge.





“Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine? We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralyzed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it. The Machine develops - but not on our lies. The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.”