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Mandated Reignorancification - Unlearning as Deadpan Policy?

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posted on Oct, 2 2013 @ 08:49 AM
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The apparent belief that one can require the unlearning of a piece of knowledge seems to not be a joke to some of these fools.

What I had assumed to be an absurdity stated only for the purpose of ridicule now gets deadpan consideration from the dullards and luddites whom we have empowered.

While these government bodies below are intended to be examples of wrong-thinking, we shouldn't be surprised if they find their way into the public reckoning:

• Internet Retrieval Agency
• Internet Gatekeeper Authority
• Department of Memory-Hole Management
• Department of Intellectual Standards and Security



They Still Don’t Get It




I blogged, awhile back, on the comment made by a top federal official who, in responding to Edward Snowden’s Internet release of top-secret NSA documents, said that the government would be able to secure the return of such information. The implication was that the government could order Internet providers to reverse the processes by which such documents were distributed to millions of Internet users. Underlying this claim is the apparent belief that Internet providers function as a kind of storehouse of various kinds of information, to which users apply for access. It is not an exaggeration, in their world, to analogize a provider – such as Google – as a public library, making stored information available to users, and being able to demand its return to the “library.”



There is no way that the NSA’s secrets can ever be “brought back” into the exclusive control of the state, any more than can Willie Zilch’s teenage Internet comments be erased from the memories of those who had once read them, downloaded them, or sent them on to others. Those who believe otherwise may soon be informing us of a means by which our virginity may be restored!



I hesitate to speculate on additional foolishness that the top-down crowd might spring on us as they continue their desperate fight against the real “terrorist threat” to their lives: the fear that increasing numbers of people will find the world of the decentralized and the horizontal more suited to their interests, and ignore – or abandon entirely – the violent and regimented systems of institutionally-dominated order. People who believe that words, communicated to others, can be retrieved and returned from whence they originated, are capable of all sorts of Alice-in-Wonderland fantasies. If the Internet’s capacities for the decentralized sharing of ideas, information, and other expressions of conscious thought sufficiently terrorize our rulers, perhaps an all-out war on the content of human consciousness awaits us.



Does all of this sound preposterous and unworkable? If the statists believe that they are able to restore our reputations – and virginity? – and erase our past peccadilloes from public view, why would we not expect them to extend and universalize such beneficent powers? Isn’t the enforced uniformity of thought and conduct the essence of what it means to live in a free and creative society? Is our Brave New World New World Order to be held back by individuals whose thinking does not conform to an institutionally-mandated consensus of opinion?

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posted on Oct, 2 2013 @ 08:53 AM
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I completely agree with all that is said here. It is people like you that others should listen, learn and repeat.



posted on Oct, 2 2013 @ 09:43 AM
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...you can only prevent others from seeing it in the future. Or can you?



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 12:12 PM
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Klassified

...you can only prevent others from seeing it in the future. Or can you?

Indeed, I will remember this forever!


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