Throughout the western world new systems have risen up whose job is to constantly record and monitor the present - and then compare that to the recorded past. The aim is to discover patterns, coincidences and correlations, and from that find ways of stopping change. Keeping things the same.
We can't properly see what is happening because these systems are operating in very different areas - from consumerism, to the management of your own body, to predicting future crimes, and even trying to stabilise the global financial system - as well as in politics.
But taken together the cumulative effect is that of a giant refrigerator that freezes us, and those who govern us, into a state of immobility, perpetually repeating the past and terrified of change and the future.
Te belangrijk om te verzuipen in de Twitter-stroom, De laatste media-archeologie van Adam Curtis: Now Then. "Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts." van William Burroughs schoot me tijdens het lezen weer eens te binnen.
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