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While that applies to about every decision Peter Thiel has ever made, Jeremy Bentham was actually 100% sincere about the panopticon and wanted it to achieve exactly what the ghoul in OP stated.
Edit: BTW thanks for making me look this stuff up, i just learned that Victorian England had a bunch of prisons that were modeled after the Panopticon, and that there's several more in Germany and Italy. Yet the only one you always hear about is the one in Cuba, and it is ofc almost never mentioned that it was built in the late 1900s and closed down under Castro. For some reason, news outlets like to omit that and just say "oh yeah that's in Cuba".
"Oligarchs should be banned from polluting? Live and let live bro, ever heard of freedom?"
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST! I HATE THE ANTICHRIST!
I don't understand George Orwell.
He basically wrote about his own country in 1984, but somehow it was supposed to be a critique of socialism??
Orwell doesn't really ask: "Why have people become the way they are?" He just connects the dots, but he doesn't think they can change. That's how you get 1984
Basically he lacks dialectical materialism. If you consider what doublethink is, it adds up.
Bad things are bad when bad people do them
But they're good when good people do them!
he even predicted that socialist (labour party) would do it 