ZEITGEIST 2020s / History repeats itself

"We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, what is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing."

"The police state would have to be as efficient as it was brutal, but its brutality would be masked by the efficiency. The police would need to appear good, indeed, the very epitome of goodness. The police state would have to be a benevolent dictatorship."

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them."

"The true basis of political power is not the gun, but rather the ability to control people's minds and thoughts."

"The Empire never ended."

(K. DICK)

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