DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic
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“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness” — Edward Gibbon (who wrote ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’)
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DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic
@drrjv@vmst.io
“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness” — Edward Gibbon (who wrote ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’)
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AnungIkwe ᐊᓈᓐg ᐃᑴ
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Anishinaabe Kwe ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᑴ (Ojibwe woman) Waabizheski Indoodem born on sovereign Indigenous land surrounded by what is now called the state of Michigan. Ogichidaakwe ᐅᑭᒋᑖᑴ Cultural and environmental activist, retired teacher, artist, trouble-maker. Loved by some, hated by a few, but rarely ignored
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AnungIkwe ᐊᓈᓐg ᐃᑴ
@AnungIkwe@spinster.xyz
Anishinaabe Kwe ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᑴ (Ojibwe woman) Waabizheski Indoodem born on sovereign Indigenous land surrounded by what is now called the state of Michigan. Ogichidaakwe ᐅᑭᒋᑖᑴ Cultural and environmental activist, retired teacher, artist, trouble-maker. Loved by some, hated by a few, but rarely ignored
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Apr 11, 2026
Orwell vs Huxley
"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." - Aldous Huxley
"The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what's happening." - George Orwell 1984
"Doublethink mens the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's
mind simultaneosly, and accepting both of them." - George Orwell
"Central to all forms of oppression is the need to prevent people from openly discussing ideas and issues." - George Orwell
"It's not so much staying alive, it's staying HUMAN that's important. What counts is that we don't
betray each other." - George Orwell
"It is this fear of a supposedly dangerous mob that makes nearly all intelligent people conservative in their opinons." - George Orwell
"If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it it because self knowledge is painful and
we prefer the pleasures of illusion."- Aldous Huxley
"Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is a hardly a healthy human left." - Aldous Huxley
"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their
capacities to think." - Aldous Huxley
"The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he beleieves himself to be free." - Aldous Huxley
"Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons." - Aldous Huxley
"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." - Aldous Huxley
#GeorgeOrwell #AldousHuxley #OrwellRolls #FreeSpeech #Censorship #SurveillanceState #StopSpyingOnUs #Green #Progressive #Libertarian #RadicalFeminist #Solidarity #BigPharma #Gaslighting
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