2011: A Brave New Dystopia

[Bones]

Chilling predictions of what 2011 might be like. Though Hedges is a bit stuck in left/right politics, he makes several worthwhile points that you should to read. We, as a society, are headed towards that Orwellian/Huxlian future. In some ways, we already are there.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2011_a_brave_new_dystopia_20101227/

In inverted totalitarianism, the sophisticated technologies of corporate control, intimidation and mass manipulation, which far surpass those employed by previous totalitarian states, are effectively masked by the glitter, noise and abundance of a consumer society. Political participation and civil liberties are gradually surrendered. The corporation state, hiding behind the smokescreen of the public relations industry, the entertainment industry and the tawdry materialism of a consumer society, devours us from the inside out. It owes no allegiance to us or the nation. It feasts upon our carcass.