I hate reading Kindle books when I can read a paperback version of the book instead, and it never feels to me like I own the Kindle version of the book I just purchased, because it's not like I can lend it out to a friend, sell the book on after I've read it, or give it away to a secondhand bookstore.
'He Will Live Up in the Sky' is a book named after the title of a book written by a character in the book, and yesterday I had to laugh when I listened to the latest 'Conversations' podcast called -
Devices and democracy: will Big Tech control us?
And then read the sections of the iBook pictured above that basically warned of the same thing the podcast was talking about.
There was a section of the iBook about a panopticon, which is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century.
As well as the mention of the book 'The Report From Iron Mountain', a book published in 1967 (during the Johnson Administration) by Dial Press which puts itself forth as the report of a government panel.
"The book includes the claim it was authored by a Special Study Group of fifteen men whose identities were to remain secret and that it was not intended to be made public.
"The book includes the claim it was authored by a Special Study Group of fifteen men whose identities were to remain secret and that it was not intended to be made public.
It details the analyses of a government panel which concludes that war, or a credible substitute for war, is necessary if governments are to maintain power.
The book was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into fifteen languages.
Controversy still swirls over whether the book was a satiric hoax about think-tank logic and writing style or the product of a secret government panel.
The document is a favorite among conspiracy theorists, who reject the statement made in 1972 by satirist Leonard Lewin that the book was a spoof and that he was its author."
Ironically, you can buy 'The Report From Iron Mountain' on Amazon if you like ... for now anyway:-)
Funny thing was I clicked on a link to a You Tube from the Wikipedia page about the Iron Mountain Report and found this in the screenshot below.
Which is what I tend to expect to find these days when clicking on an old You Tube link.
Let's hope my Kindle copy of 'He Will Live Up in the Sky' lives a lot longer in the iCloud than most You Tubes do.
And it's a good book/iBook too, as I finished reading it yesterday.
A little pulp fiction can be good food for thought now and again -
Heaven or Vegas: The Unfinished Pyramid is Lyra?
Nothing in This Book/Film/Story/Magazine/Theory is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are ... or Are THEY?
The Darkest Web?
Ironically, you can buy 'The Report From Iron Mountain' on Amazon if you like ... for now anyway:-)
Funny thing was I clicked on a link to a You Tube from the Wikipedia page about the Iron Mountain Report and found this in the screenshot below.
Which is what I tend to expect to find these days when clicking on an old You Tube link.
Let's hope my Kindle copy of 'He Will Live Up in the Sky' lives a lot longer in the iCloud than most You Tubes do.
A little pulp fiction can be good food for thought now and again -
Heaven or Vegas: The Unfinished Pyramid is Lyra?
Nothing in This Book/Film/Story/Magazine/Theory is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are ... or Are THEY?
The Darkest Web?
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