“Postmodernism refers to the state of culture where the media is produced in such staggering quantities that it has crossed the boundaries into reality itself and hyper reality prevails.”
Stare at your screens, your brains rewired. Eyes to your screens, you’ve been dumbed down. Your vocabulary is shrinking, your attention span is gone. Who cares about wisdom, when you can watch TikTok? Look into your screens of false reality. Let them consume you with empty illusions. Let them kiss you with distractions. Embrace them tightly. Love them wholeheartedly. Dance with conformity. Waltz with surrender. Cuddle with collectivism. Despise individualism. Divorce free thought. Abandon critical thinking. Make love to wokeism. Give birth to anti-intellectualism: there are more genders than colours of the rainbow. However, if I say there are only two genders, I might get censored, I might get banned, I might get expelled, I might lose my job. Even worse, I might get jailed by the speech police—the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Release the hounds! Digital algorithm hounds, track down all dissenting voices. Big brother censors will torch dissenting language. Big tech censors will snuff out dissenting opinions. Practice your fire suppression, incinerate all opposing ideas. We can’t have two sides of the story. “Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents.”
Though the media is owned by a few, there’s not a monopoly on information. Though Trudeau has bought off the corporate media, it’s not a form of fascism. The internet isn’t used for surveillance. And social media isn’t antisocial. We’re not erasing self expression. We’re not scrubbing independent thought. We love rational people. “Forget them. Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.”
We must digitize all that can be digitized. Why use real books? Let’s use ebooks. Why go to school? Let’s have school online. Why go to work? Let’s work online. Why go to the store? Let’s shop online. Why use physical IDs? Let’s use digital IDs. Why use cash? Let’s use digital currencies. Why use real wallets? Let’s use digital wallets. Why think? Let’s use artificial intelligence. Why live in reality? Let’s live in virtual reality. Why be human? Let’s become transhuman. Enjoy the mindless entertainment of your screens. Enjoy being socially engineered. Enjoy being fact checked. Enjoy being indoctrinated. Enjoy propaganda. Your behavior is changing, you’re leaning less and less, you cannot think for yourselves. “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other.”
University fascists, burn down all dissenting debate. Raise a ruckus, get opposing speakers cancelled. Blow your whistles, beat your drums, and drown out dissenting voices. We’ll torch your ideas, we’ll incinerate your opinions. We can’t have different ideas, because we’re collectivists—we’re all supposed to think alike. We don’t want a free marketplace of ideas, because we don’t want to refute concepts with sound arguments. University is not about free speech and diversity of opinion. University is about indoctrination and groupthink. “But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.”
Welcome to a society that is obsessed with their screens. They struggle to look away from their screens, they struggle to think, they struggle to communicate with those in the real world around them. They are lost in their digital reality, they are lost in their virtual world. They are distracted, they are naïve. They are complacent, they are submissive. They are mesmerized, they are hypnotized. They all mumble the same things, they spew out the given narrative: social distance; mask up; take the jab; don’t visit your dying grandmother; don’t go to work; shut down schools; shut down gyms; shut down society. If you don’t conform your bank accounts will be frozen, your businesses will be locked up, your churches will be fenced off, your pastors will be fined and arrested as well as your dissenting politicians. Many of the screen watchers, however, agreed with their screens: think-dissenters are bad! Some even said: we should round up those anti-vaxxers and kill them. “But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.”
What, you’re a nurse, and you posted an alterative view of covid? Come into my office, we’ll have a talk! If you continue expressing such viewpoints, we’ll fire you. What, you’re a doctor, and you’ve been expressing doubts about the vax? We’ll have to investigate you for spreading misinformation. We’ll fire all unvaxxed medical staff; as a consequence, many clinics and emergency rooms will shut down, and there will be longer waiting times for medical treatments. We’ll pass a bill to punish all doctors who speak out against our medical policies. If they are found guilty we’ll fine them $200,000, or give them six months in jail, or burn their medical licences. Doctor, can I have Ivermectin? No! I don’t want my life ruined on account of my medical opinion. What, truckers what to protest covid lockdowns? We’ll just use the WAR MEASURES ACT against those domestic terrorists. We’ll arrest you, we’ll seize your trucks, and we’ll freeze your bank accounts. We’ll use the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as our goon squad. Our woke leader, Mr. Blackface Trudeau, has bought off the corporate media. So the fascist government/corporate media will push the desired narrative. We’ll also pass bills to control as much of the internet as possible. Yet we’ll give a Nazi a standing ovation in Parliament. And I, Trudeau, admire China’s basic dictatorship. “Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.”
Let’s introduce Digital IDs, CBDCs, Social Credit Scores, and Universal Basic Income. Let’s enslave the clueless zombies, the useless eaters who are disconnected from reality. The wolves will lead the sheeple like sheep to the slaughter. Lost in their entertainment they will put up little fight. They’ve been trained to follow, to be soft and weak, and to not resist. We’ll microchip them like animals. We’ll Mark them like beasts. We’ll tattoo them with the identification tag number: 666. Welcome to the Beast Tracking System database, where all your dystopian nightmares will come true!
At the end of Fahrenheit 451 the city is bombed. Woe! Woe to you, great city, dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet, and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls! In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin! Its labours are only fuel for the flames, its work will be destroyed by fire!
“Montag felt the slow stir of words, the slow simmer. And when it came to his turn, what could he say, what could he offer on a day like this, to make the trip a little easier? To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes, all that. But what else. What else? Something, something . . . And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Yes, thought Montag, that’s the one I’ll save for noon. For noon... When we reach the city.”