{"id":24347,"date":"2017-07-04T05:58:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24347"},"modified":"2017-07-04T05:58:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:58:12","slug":"you-want-a-picture-of-the-future-imagine-a-boot-stamping-on-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24347","title":{"rendered":"You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/you_want_a_picture_of_the_future_imagine_a_boot_stamping_on_your_face_short\">You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We have arrived, way ahead of schedule, into the dystopian future dreamed up by such science fiction writers as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick.<\/p>\n<p>Much like Orwell\u2019s Big Brother in <em>1984<\/em>, the government and its corporate spies now watch our every move.<\/p>\n<p>Much like Huxley\u2019s <em>A Brave New World<\/em>, we are churning out a society of watchers who \u201chave their liberties taken away from them, but \u2026 rather enjoy it, because they [are] distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Much like Atwood\u2019s <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>, the populace is now taught to \u201cknow their place and their duties, to understand that they have no real rights but will be protected up to a point if they conform, and to think so poorly of themselves that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/10\/books\/review\/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-age-of-trump.html\">they will accept their assigned fate and not rebel or run away<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And in keeping with Philip K. Dick\u2019s darkly prophetic vision of a dystopian police state\u2014which became the basis for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/6\/30\/15865462\/minority-report-steven-spielberg-surveillance-technology\">Steven Spielberg\u2019s futuristic thriller <em>Minority Report<\/em> which was released 15 years ago<\/a>\u2014we are now trapped into a world in which the government is all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful, and if you dare to step out of line, dark-clad police SWAT teams and pre-crime units will crack a few skulls to bring the populace under control.<\/p>\n<p><em>Minority Report<\/em> is set in the year 2054, but it could just as well have taken place in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly taking its cue from science fiction, technology has moved so fast in the short time since <em>Minority Report<\/em> premiered in 2002 that what once seemed futuristic no longer occupies the realm of science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face We have arrived, way ahead of schedule, into the dystopian future dreamed up by such science fiction writers as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick. Much like Orwell\u2019s Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6420,5723],"class_list":["post-24347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-john-whitehead","tag-rutherford-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24348,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347\/revisions\/24348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}