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Vad ska jag skriva om här? Så länge jag kan minnas har jag haft en stark upplevelse av att något har gått väldigt fel med det moderna samhället och att de värden och den mentalitet som håller den moderna processen igång leder oss allt djupare in i en dystopi á la 1984.

Vid det här laget ligger panoptikon i öppen dager: vi kan inte ens parkera bilen i städerna utan att det registreras digitalt. Digitaliseringen av valutan gör att vi inte kan köpa något utan att det registreras. Det ger bankerna en enorm makt över oss. Människan håller på att integreras i ett mekaniskt kontrollsystem där det kommer att finnas väldigt lite utrymme att vara just människa.

Jag kommer antagligen ifrågasätta det mesta samtiden står för, därav namnet "konträr".

Tre citat får ange temat i vid mening:

“For its effective salvation mankind will need to undergo something like a spontaneous religious conversion: one that will replace the mechanical world picture with an organic world picture, and give to the human personality, as the highest known manifestation of life, the precedence it now gives to its machines and computers. This order of change is as hard for most people to conceive as was the change from the classic power complex of Imperial Rome to that of Christianity, or, later, from supernatural medieval Christianity to the machine-modeled ideology of the seventeenth century. But such changes have repeatedly occurred all through history; and under catastrophic pressure they may occur again. Of only one thing we may be confident. If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.”  

― Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power

 

"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” 

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

 

In "this age of flourishing futurists when almost the only way to get attention is to claim to be privy to some new discovery, it gives us the most exceptional pleasure, the most piquant delight, to announce what in today´s climate of opinion may be the most novel, original and unexpected prediction imaginable. The wave of the future will be a return to the past."

―Huston Smith, Forgotten Truth