09-17-2017, 09:37 PM
(09-17-2017, 03:32 PM)Mikebert Wrote:(09-15-2017, 07:06 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Just because you personally wouldn't prefer 1927 doesn't mean others wouldn't. For my part, magical technologies are a plus, but there's far less personal choice in 2017 than in 1927.
How so? Seems to me people have far *more* personal choice today than in the past, perhaps too much.
The 'wrong choices' are sleaze. It's up to us to decide to avoid it.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.