Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects.
But now a significant change is about to occur.
In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.
Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.
John Twelve HawksYou don´t need to watch everyone if everyone believes they're beeing watched. (...) Punishment isn't necessary, but the inevitability of punishment has to be programmed into the brain.
John Twelve HawksHuman beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.
John Twelve HawksVirtue is admirable, but boring.
John Twelve HawksLife is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.
John Twelve Hawks(...) I wanted to drink a decent glass of wine in the evening with good friends."
"Sounds like a modest goal."
"Yes, but even a small wish like that has implications. It means a community with free time, a group with enough income to buy the Merlot, and a general desire to enjoy the small pleasures of life. (...) In this context, a glass of wine becomes a revolutionary statement.
I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.
John Twelve HawksMots clés commercial news television tv consumer
Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.
John Twelve HawksIf privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.
John Twelve HawksMots clés technology science-fiction culture
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