2023-10-04
30 分钟Today we talk about the disappearance of rituals, truth, community, communication, public spaces and talk about the importance sometimes of being an idiot. Hope you love it! :) Get more: Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Philosophize This! Clips: https://www.youtube.com/@philosophizethisclips Be social: Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@philosophizethispodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Thank you for making the show possible. 🙂
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philosophizethis so whenever you hear people talking about dystopian futures or digital panopticons, one of the ones that's always going to get brought up is George Orwell's 1984.
It's a classic.
It's like the Casablanca of dystopian futures.
I mean, I'd like to die in it if I could.
It talks about a surveillance state that's all encompassing, not unlike the one we just referenced on the freedom versus security episode we did.
But to the philosopher we're talking about today, Byung Chul han, 1984.
For a lot of people out there that are talking about this stuff, may actually end up being a bit of a red herring.
See, to him, there's a lot of different types of dystopian futures that could happen out there, and if you're only looking for one of them, you may end up missing the one you're actually living in.
To Han, the far more accurate literary example of a dystopian future that resembles the world we're in is not Orwell's 1984, but Aldous Huxley's 1932 book called Brave New World.
See, in Brave New World, totally different vibe than 1984.
First of all, all the people in the book live under a single, unified global world state.
Everybody is one in the book.
And when someone dies, there aren't people having babies to be able to replace them.
The government replaces them by growing a new human inside of a hatchery, far less messy then this new person from birth is psychologically conditioned and engineered by the government for a particular role in the society, depending on what's needed after a certain point, once people come of age.
In the book, the government gives everybody a hallucinogenic drug called Soma that they take every day.
Now, its not mandatory to take soma in the book, but basically everybody in the society does.