Day: 20/10/2017

DAVID HOROWITZ ~ THE ART OF POLITICAL WAR AND OTHER RADICAL PURSUITS

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~ PIWCBOM ~ Politics Is War Conducted By Other Means

~ IPWYDNFJTPIAA-BTDTEFA ~ In Political Warfare You Do Not Fight Just To Prevail In An Argument – But To Destroy The Enemy’s Fighting Ability

~ YHOTSTMYP ~ You Have Only Thirty Seconds To Make Your Point

~ PIAWOP-YTITDYATFOALACAPCWYP-WDYOATEWYC-CTTTMTFAEFYAP ~ Politics Is A War Of Position – Your Task Is To Define Yourself As The Friend Of As Large A Constituency As Possible Compatible With Your Principles – While Defining Your Opponent As The Enemy Whenever You Can – Choose The Terrain That Makes The Fight As Easy For You As Possible

~ IPW-TAUP-AIABPIAWOP-WIDBITS ~ In Political Warfare – The Aggressor Usually Prevails – Aggression Is Advantageous Because Politics Is A War Of Position – Which Is Defined By Images That Stick

~ BSF-YCDTIAWAYA-DTOITDMIAPW ~ By Striking First – You Can Define The Issues As Well As Your Adversary – Defining The Opposition Is The Decisive Move In All Political War

~ TWPPWHBTF-TWIFBE-OTT-HITBC ~ Position Is Defined By Fear And Hope – Those Who Provide People With Hope Become Their Friends – Those Who Inspire Fear Become Enemies – Of The Two – Hope Is The Better Choice

~ TWOPASEFAH-TMISITC ~ The Weapons Of Politics Are Symbols Evoking Fear And Hope – The Most Important Symbol Is The Candidate

~ PWNCAWYHTS-UTBYCAT-TAOPIPP-WDNKY-AWWNKY ~ People Will Not Care About What You Have To Say – Unless They Believe You Care About Them

~ TAOPIPP-WWNKYETSASB-TYCAT ~ The Art Of Politics Is Persuading People – Who Will Never Know You Except Through Symbols And Sound Bites – That You Care About Them

~ VLOTSOTP-YMDYIWTPU-YMGPHIYV-AMTFTVOYO ~ Victory Lies On The Side Of The People – You Must Define Yourself In Ways That People Understand – You Must Give People Hope In Your Victory – And Make Them Fear The Victory Of Your Opponent

~ OOTPSOHMIATTEIAOUTTFGWWAGATFTAWWH ~ One Of The Principal Sources Of Human Misery Is A Tendency That Exists In All Of Us To Take For Granted What We Are Given And To Fail To Appreciate What We Have

~ ALGIHDITPFRTK ~ A Lie Grounded In Human Desire Is Too Powerful For Reason To Kill

GEORGE ORWELL ~ 1984 ~ 1948

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~ WS ~ Winston Smith

~ VM ~ Victory Mansions

~ HW ~ Hate Week

~ BBIWY ~ BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

~ TT-CBD-B-TWNWOSIOC ~ The Telescreen – Could Be Dimmed – But – There Was No Way Of Shutting It Off Completely

~ I ~ INGSOC

~ TP ~ Thought Police

~ AO ~ Airstrip One

~ O ~ Oceania

~ NS ~ Newspeak

~ WIP-FIS-IIS ~ WAR IS PEACE – FREEDOM IS SLAVERY – IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

~ MOT ~ Ministry Of Truth

~ MOP ~ Ministry Of Peace

~ MOL ~ Ministry Of Love

~ MOP ~ Ministry Of Plenty

~ VG ~ Victory Gin

~ VC ~ Victory Cigarettes

~ NWI-STWNLAL ~ Nothing Was Illegal – Since There Were No Longer Any Laws

~ DT ~ Doublethink

~ OB ~ O’Brien

~ EG-TEOTP-TPT ~ Emmanuel Goldstein – The Enemy Of The People – The Primal Traitor

~ IAWY ~ I Am With You

~ BTHC ~ Back To His Cubicle

~ DWBB ~ DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER

~ PSD-ADTN-EROEYHEDWWO-Y-O-T-E-

~ WSMITPWTIND ~ We Shall Meet In The Place Where There Is No Darkness

~ TCOEAAIITAI ~ The Consequences Of Every Act Are Included In The Act Itself

~ WCTP-CTF-WCTP-CTP ~ Who Controls The Past – Controls The Future – Who Controls The Present – Controls The Past

~ S-YCPYFOADL-B-YCPN ~ Sometimes – You Could Put Your Finger On A Definite Lie – But – You Could Prove Nothing

~ 6079SW ~ 6079 Smith W

~ WDAHTPOFITFL ~ We Don’t All Have The Privilege Of Fighting In The Front Line

~ MH ~ Memory Hole

~ DPU ~ DoublePlusUngood

~ UP ~ Unpersons

~ AHWAP-SCARI-EAOAWN ~ All History Was A Palimpsest – Scraped Clean And Re-Inscribed – Exactly As Often As Was Necessary

~ TEITCOTMOL ~ The Executions In The Cellars Of The Ministry Of Love

~ TPANHB ~ The Proles Are Not Human Beings

~ DS-TQLAD-ATAO-IIA-ATSYAW-IIP ~ Duckspeak – To Quack Like A Duck – Applied To An Opponent – It Is Abuse – Applied To Someone You Agree With – It Is Praise

~ TCTC ~ The Chestnut Tree Café

~ PSWNAAMOTTP-BT-IWPTASWWTGDOA ~ Probably She Was Not Actually A Member Of The Thought Police – But Then – It Was Precisely The Amateur Spy Who Was The Greatest Danger Of All

~ ITIH-ILITP-ITWH-IMLITP ~ If There Is Hope – It Lies In The Proles – If There Was Hope – It Must Lie In The Proles

~ WWITTCNSLTAATM? ~ Why Was It That They Could Never Shout Like That About Anything That Mattered?

~ HCYTHMOIWL ~ How Could You Tell How Much Of It Was Lies

~ NOWHOFITHOTTPEEITE-TWCWTBSBTTG ~ No One Who Had Once Fallen Into The Hands Of The Thought Police Ever Escaped In The End – They Were Corpses Waiting To Be Sent Back To The Grave

~ TPTYTRTEOOEAE-IWT-F-ME-C ~ The Party Told You To Reject The Evidence Of Our Eyes And Ears – It Was Their – Final – Most Essential – Command

~ AO-AFTMAB-WAVS ~ Anything Old – And For That Matter Anything Beautiful – Was Always Vaguely Suspect

~ ILY ~ I Love You

~ J ~ Julia

~ AYWTC-ITOWTBS ~ Always Yell With The Crowd – It’s The Only Way To Be Safe

~ TGC-AL-IAD ~ The Golden Country – A Landscape – In A Dream

~ IYKTSRYCBTBO ~ If You Kept The Small Rules You Could Break The Big Ones

~ GT-NO-IOTABT ~ Goodthinkful – Naturally Orthodox – Incapable Of Thinking A Bad Thought

~ TFHBIEAEOTTP-IWADBMOWECBSNADBI ~ The Family Had Become In Effect An Extension Of The Thought Police – It Was A Device By Means Of Which Everyone Could Be Surrounded Night And Day By Informers

~ WATD ~ We Are The Dead

~ WNDY ~ We’re Not Dead Yet

~ IPC ~ Inner Party Coffee

~ IDLR-TA ~ I Don’t Like Rats – That’s All

~ THS ~ The Hate Song

~ IAOBWAA ~ It’s Always One Bloody War After Another

~ IAW-TWVOTPIIMSOPIOUI-BLOUTRS ~ In A Way – The World-View Of The Party Imposed Itself Most Successfully On People Incapable Of Understanding It – By Lack Of Understanding They Remained Sane

~ CFHC ~ Colonies For Homeless Children

~ TTAPOOC-B-EG ~ The Theory And Practice Of Oligarchical Collectivism – By – Emmanuel Goldstein

~ NIEIOETTP ~ Nothing Is Efficient In Oceania Except The Thought Police

~ IHLBRTTOSBFOIC ~ It Had Long Been Realised That The Only Secure Basis For Oligarchy Is Collectivism

~ CS-SS-AIBIATTOADT-IS-PS ~ Crimestop – Stopping Short – As If By Instinct – At The Threshold Of Any Dangerous Thought – In Short – Protective Stupidity

~ DT-TPOHTCBIOMS-AABOT ~ Doublethink – The Power Of Holding Two Contradictory Beliefs In One’s Mind Simultaneously – And Accepting Both Of Them

~ R101 ~ Room 101

~ IWETCEAIE ~ It Was Easier To Confess Everything And Implicate Everybody

~ CS ~ Collective Solipsism

~ IYWAPOTF-IABSOAHF-FE ~ If You Want A Picture Of The Future – Imagine A Boot Stamping On A Human Face – For Ever

~ ETSPWDOTCOHDTHCR ~ Even The Speck Of Whitish Dust On The Cover Of His Diary They Had Carefully Replaced

~ IYWTHAS-YMBATHIFY ~ If You Want To Hide A Secret – You Must Be Able To Hide It From Yourself

~ TDHT-TWF ~ To Die Hating Them – That Was Freedom

~ YMLBB-IINETOH-YMLH ~ You Must Love Big Brother – It Is Not Enough To Obey Him – You Must Love Him

~ DITJ-DITJ ~ Do It To Julia – Do It To Julia

~ 2 + 2 = 5 ~ 2 + 2 = 5

ANDREW MCAFEE + ERICK BRYNJOLFSSON ~ MACHINE PLATFORM CROWD ~ 2017

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~ TRIAECOM ~ The Rapidly Increasing And Expanding Capabilities Of Machines

~ TRAOLAIYC-TBLRTTEIITI-TUA-P ~ The Recent Appearance Of Large And Influential Young Companies – That Bear Little Resemblance To The Established Incumbents In Their Industries – These Upstarts Are – Platforms

~ TEOTC-TSLAO-H-K-E-A-E-DAOTW-ANA-O ~ The Emergence Of The Crowd – The Startlingly Large Amount Of – Human – Knowledge – Expertise – And – Enthusiasm – Distributed All Over The World – And Now Available – Online

~ R-TBB-M&M-P&P-A-TC&TC ~ Rethink – The Balance Between – Minds And Machines – Products And Platforms – And – The Core And The Crowd

~ AFSITP-AF-LRF-LTP-A-BB-AT-CST-I-E-A-T ~ A Fundamental Shift Is Taking Place – Away From – Long-Range Forecast – Long-Term Plans – And – Big Bets – And Toward – Constant Short-Term – Iteration – Experimentation – And – Testing

~ ML-TAASOBSSTCDPAFWSAFSME ~ Machine Learning – The Art And Science Of Building Software Systems That Can Detect Patterns And Formulate Winning Strategies After Being Shown Many Examples

~ H-R ~ Hi – Robot

~ VIR-VIS ~ Virtualization Is Reality – Virtualization Is Spreading

~ SPWCTSSH-T-HI-BVIALTTTWGIOTAMGMC ~ Some People Will Continue To Self-Select Human-To-Human Interactions – But Virtualization Is A Long-Term Trend That Will Generally Increase Over Time As Machines Gain More Capabilities

~ TEOFPAI ~ The Economics Of – Free – Perfect – And – Instant

~ CCTC ~ Curation Counters The Corruptors

~ TAOPW:BD-A-BE ~ The Art Of Platform War: Be Different – And – Be Early

~ HOSP-ETTS-TAOTEOCG-MABROO-C-TDACAPETP ~ Habits Of Successful Platforms – Early To The Space – Take Advantage Of The Economics Of Complementary Goods – Maintain A Broad Rule Of Openness – Curate – To Deliver A Consistent And Positive Experience To Participants

~ DIMMSFYT-TTBYOP-OTPISE? ~ Does It Make More Sense For You To – Try To Build Your Own Platform – Or To Participate In Someone Else’s?

~ IMTOPAE-WSAPATY? ~ If More Than One Platform Already Exists – Why Should Anyone Pay Attention To Yours?

~ WVAYO-O-PAYS-FYIU? ~ What Value Are You Offering – Or – Problem Are You Solving – For Your Intended Users?

~ TPOPI ~ The Perils Of Perishing Inventory

~ TTL-LA ~ To Tread Lightly – Leverage Assets

~ GIAALTI ~ Giving It Away And Locking Them In

~ DD ~ Durable Differentiation

~ WANP ~ Writing A New Playbook

~ WTGRC-DLTTE-I-CITO ~ When Things Get Really Complex – Don’t Look To The Experts – Instead – Call In The Outsiders

~ DE-LAH-SFAROBTDTQOTW-TBS-SATWDBTOAC-BSATLTWO ~ Domain Experts – Like All Humans – Suffer From A Range Of Biases That Degrade The Quality Of Their Work – These Blind Spots – Such As The Well-Documented Biases Toward Overconfidence And Confirmation – Become Stronger And Thus Lead To Worse Outcomes

~ ICEBTM-‘E’-AAEAA-TTBKTATROUATAATQOTW ~ It Could Even Be That Many – “Experts” – Actually Aren’t Expert At All – That They’ve Been Kidding Themselves And The Rest Of Us About Their Abilities And The Quality Of Their Work

~ IT-C-FC-TS-W-ICBQHTDWAKWTTA ~ In Today’s – Complex – Fast-Changing – Technologically Sophisticated – World – It Can Be Quite Hard To Distinguish Who Actually Knows What They’re Talking About

~ TKOTC-CEBOOD-TCCBS-WTCRC ~ The Knowledge Of The Core – Can Easily Become Out Of Date – The Core Can Become Stale – While The Crowd Really Can’t

~ TCISV-ILP-BIMM-G-I-A/O-S-FAOC ~ The Crowd Is So Valuable – In Large Part – Because It’s Massively Marginal – Geographically – Intellectually – And/Or – Socially – From Any Organization’s Core

~ OAOA-TREOTCSTPBBUACIMOTC ~ Over And Over Again – The Recognized Experts Of The Core See Their Performance Beaten By Uncredentialed And Conventionally Inexperienced Members Of The Crowd

~ TCCNAALWENMOAC ~ The Crowd Can Now Accomplish A Lot Without Ever Needing Much Of A Core

~ DAO ~ Decentralized Autonomous Organization