koshergrl
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- Aug 4, 2011
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They monitor our internet use, our consumerism, our homes, cars and bank accounts, gathering data and eavesdropping on us, for the purpose of SELLING us things. But we all know where this goes...it goes where the data gathering and the eavesdropping is to make sure we are having the right conversations, and espouse the correct *views*.
"Google recently fired one of its high-level engineers, James Damore, for posting on an internal discussion board an anonymous memo making a measured argument against the company’s approach to “diversity.” The big irony? He began the memo by warning that “Google’s political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety, but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety. This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed. The lack of discussion fosters the most extreme and authoritarian elements of this ideology.” Everything that happened subsequently at Google, on Twitter, and in the technology media has validated this warning a thousand times over."
"A country does not have a dictator pop up spontaneously, out of nowhere, and suddenly push the bonds of repression down on everyone. The people have to be ready for dictatorship. They have to learn to embrace its habits and practices voluntarily, or at least to show little resistance. In that regard, what is more important than Damore’s firing was the reaction to it, which show us how many people are willing to cheer on and participate in the ruthless suppression of dissent against the prevailing orthodoxy."
1. Create an Ideological Dogma Immune to Factual or Logical Criticism
2. Make Discussion Itself Into an Offense
3. Get the Press to Smear and Lie About Dissenters
4. Recruit and Reward Informants on Dissenters
5. Make Threats of Violence Acceptable, When They’re Against the Wrong People
"Given the size of the rebellion against political correctness in the last election, the PC Left doesn’t represent a majority of the population. Yet somehow that’s not so reassuring. One of the lessons of history is that those who prepare the way for dictatorship, in the hope of finally getting to implement their ideal plan for society, are rarely those who actually end up wielding the power.
"The institutions and culture of a free society need to be preserved by both sides of the debate, and for everybody’s sake. Those who knock them down now in their glee to get at the devil are pushing us all toward the most hostile environment of all."
Okay, Google: How Do You Prepare A Country For Totalitarianism?
"Google recently fired one of its high-level engineers, James Damore, for posting on an internal discussion board an anonymous memo making a measured argument against the company’s approach to “diversity.” The big irony? He began the memo by warning that “Google’s political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety, but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety. This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed. The lack of discussion fosters the most extreme and authoritarian elements of this ideology.” Everything that happened subsequently at Google, on Twitter, and in the technology media has validated this warning a thousand times over."
"A country does not have a dictator pop up spontaneously, out of nowhere, and suddenly push the bonds of repression down on everyone. The people have to be ready for dictatorship. They have to learn to embrace its habits and practices voluntarily, or at least to show little resistance. In that regard, what is more important than Damore’s firing was the reaction to it, which show us how many people are willing to cheer on and participate in the ruthless suppression of dissent against the prevailing orthodoxy."
1. Create an Ideological Dogma Immune to Factual or Logical Criticism
2. Make Discussion Itself Into an Offense
3. Get the Press to Smear and Lie About Dissenters
4. Recruit and Reward Informants on Dissenters
5. Make Threats of Violence Acceptable, When They’re Against the Wrong People
"Given the size of the rebellion against political correctness in the last election, the PC Left doesn’t represent a majority of the population. Yet somehow that’s not so reassuring. One of the lessons of history is that those who prepare the way for dictatorship, in the hope of finally getting to implement their ideal plan for society, are rarely those who actually end up wielding the power.
"The institutions and culture of a free society need to be preserved by both sides of the debate, and for everybody’s sake. Those who knock them down now in their glee to get at the devil are pushing us all toward the most hostile environment of all."
Okay, Google: How Do You Prepare A Country For Totalitarianism?
