Universalists and the Tribalists still pay taxes to butcher the gray areas to sleep better.
Same as it ever was, since when a person's limit for "connections" is reached the human brain
as reported resorts to some combination of hierarchical schemes, stereotypes, and other simplified
models in order to simply understand. The numbers may somewhat change for the specified study
but it functions around 150 to 260 as Dunbar and many others assert as a norm.
The function of Balkanization is the control dial for the dialectic. As we noted they are unleashed
on the unsuspecting. The narrative is simply to what side of the bars is it now and we should of been friends
since the irony was laid down long ago as who had time to follow that.
And the disturbing last paragraph is excised here:
Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of course, there may be a large scale biological and atomic war — in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely imaginable kinds.
Thank you once again for the book.
Yours sincerely,
Aldous Huxley
For proper context on Aldous Huxley one has to keep in mind that his brother was an ardent eugenicist and laid the foundations for the Transhumanist movement. As founder of the UN's UNESCO.
Nothing is lost but context.
If machines can placate the masses so be it they already said.
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