Saturday, September 16, 2017
Seeing from outside
When you're not owned by one particular narrative, you SHARPLY notice people who are owned.
The iPhone narrative owns everyone who owns an iPhone. This automatic assumption is universal. Typified by a comment in a ZH article on Apple surveillance:
And if you say that you don't own a phone...or have a non GSM phone...either your a liar or live in a mud hut. It is the way it is.
No. I've never owned or even TOUCHED a cellphone, smart or dumb.
This is my only phone. Note that it lives next to a hi-tech computer, not next to a dung-burning stove.
It's possible to be modern without being totally contained inside Elon's superbrain. You can't cut off all control, but you can LIMIT the control.
Note also the retronym in the above comment. "A phone" means a smartphone updated to the latest version as of the latest femtosecond. The retronym process only extends as far as a "non GSM phone", which must mean a smartphone that hasn't been updated to the latest femtosecond. Phones that are connected by wires are beyond conception and thus beyond retronym.
Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods.
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This is my only phone. Note that it lives next to a hi-tech computer, not next to a dung-burning stove.
It's possible to be modern without being totally contained inside Elon's superbrain. You can't cut off all control, but you can LIMIT the control.
Note also the retronym in the above comment. "A phone" means a smartphone updated to the latest version as of the latest femtosecond. The retronym process only extends as far as a "non GSM phone", which must mean a smartphone that hasn't been updated to the latest femtosecond. Phones that are connected by wires are beyond conception and thus beyond retronym.
Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods.
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