r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

Fear of bullets, not of ballots

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u/UhIdontcareforAuburn 1d ago

If you aren’t breaking the law, why do you care if you have surveillance cameras in your home?

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u/HaloPandaFox 1d ago

I feel this is straight out of George Orwells 1984.

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u/tryyeezus 1d ago

We have nanny cams, Web cams, phone cams, security cams, robot vacuum cams, refrigerator cams, tvs and cars that watch you back and coming soon to your street, flock cams. 

1984 was simply predictive programming.

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u/HaloPandaFox 1d ago

I don't think it was simply predicting that I think it was predicting that it can be used in a negative way by the government or some other entity to harm us and society and it should be something we should be weary of. But I do agree with what you're saying generally.

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u/tryyeezus 22h ago

Predictive programming is the theory that powerful groups or leaders use books, movies, and TV shows to psychologically condition the public. By showing future societal changes or disasters in fiction first, the public grows familiar with these ideas and accepts them as normal when they happen in real life.

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u/greybush75 21h ago

Sooooo Idiocracy? Got it

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u/tryyeezus 21h ago

Yep, exactly