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“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.
We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.
What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing.
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.
The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.
They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.
What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing.
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.
The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.
They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Information is power. People censoring themselfes because of the risk of being spied on is power. The power elite has never been this powerful and Im afriad the point of no return is passed. We are so dependent on technology nowdays that technology is used to enslave the mind of humanity rather than liberating us. We are in this digital mind prison for many years to come. Maybe "singularity" will liberate us, or maybe it will enslave our minds even further.
We might even be presented with an option by the future power elite: Join the Matrix where you can be as free as you want to be, you can do whatever you want without any rules or any punishment, but there is a price: your physical body and your physical awareness will be kept hostage for your entire life. You can escape the real world and let us rule the physical world while you are asleep dreaming in the Matrix world for ever and ever.
Addendum: We may already be living in a simulated matrix world, but this world is a nightmare instead of a cute dream. Adding another matrix world in this world creates something like the dream-in-dream-in-dream... concept of the movie Inception. We may escape reality deeper and deeper without ever really feeling satisfied...
