Saturday April 18, 2009
Pornocalypse Now
Douglas Haddow
Adbusters
It’s in a fog of fake fucking that man is sleepwalking toward an abyss.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”—George Orwell
Now that Gitmo is basically kaput and Bush’s war on the future has been replaced with Obama’s strategy for the present, is Orwell’s forewarning still relevant? Or has the real-world manifestation of the Orwellian already reached its peak and entered into decline?
Let me entertain you with a fantastic scenario – If Orwell had been born in 1984 rather than 1903, he would be a member of a subset of young men whose lives have been framed by two critical shifts in the mental landscape: the collapse of the global superpowers (USSR/US) and the rise of the pornography industry.
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