16a: SALES SOAR AT THE EVERYTHING STORE
Ben reads the latest instalment in a series of pamphlets on the “Orwellian”: ‘Sales Soar at the Everything Store: Orwell, Power-Worship and the “Story of America”’. The piece looks at Orwell’s many critiques of James Burnham, whose 1940s works inspired 1984’s nightmare vision of an Anglicised Soviet surveillance state. Ben also explores the relationship between traditional intelligence methods (mostly leading to mass murder in the name of “anticommunism”) and the modern ‘data companies’ role in running that game for the ruling class. It’s easy to forget that power and control are not the same thing, and that sometimes our desire to feel like the ship is being steered entices us into believing that things are not going haywire. Hence Biden’s (and others’) guff about ‘the story of America’.
Read the piece on the Substack: spaghettiforbrains.substack.com/p/sales-soar-at-the-everything-store and subscribe for free to read future pamphlets in the newsletter.
Opening music: 'Now That I Can See' by Gerry Nobody.
Closing music: 'The Chestnut Tree' by Glenn Miller
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