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Old Jul 17, 2012, 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by fishsandwich View Post
The article can actually be summarised pretty quickly:
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-And our system can already do it because: Kafka. (I don't get this part.)
Kafka, meaning the guy who wrote books like "the Trial." Kafka wrote about dystopias where the gov. was screwed up and all powerful... In "The Trial," the main character, "Joseph K," was taken to a mysterious court, in the attic of some buildings, which he struggled against in vain for a few months until he was executed in the streets. He never knew his accusation. You don't learn it in the book... The book was based off Kafka's observations of pre-nazi Germany and it was a prediction of what could happen. Yes, our system can do it if we are also declining into such a regime as that of the nazis... And we all know that in nazi germany, involuntary treatment became involuntary experimentation... so, he is proposing... dang...