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by xte 2774 days ago
Hum, mumble mumble... I may have experimented something like that, having become an Emacs addicted... But I'm sure enough that no Emacs devs work with such theory in mind :-)

Maybe I also have a rebound effect against certain platforms/apps/digital jails... How many sharing this around here?

Anyway, seriously: in the history we (as society) learn to distinguish good and bad things, generally the hard way, we develop society-antibodies for many "bad things". Unfortunately actual rapid growth of corporatocracy, while it's not nothing new under the sun, it's evolved quicker than society capacity to metabolize it and that's a real big danger for us all.

At nazi times it's easy to identify "the enemy" if someone go bomb you, go invade your country, have clear uniforms, symbols, clearly state that want to dominate the world it's easy to understand that's not good. But "new enemies" learned that well, they suppress symbols, they ceased to appear a unique body (of course, they are not, but even original nazi are not a unique body, have had they internal fight etc) they do not say they want to conquer anything but only "having success", like anybody want... Well for the mean, typical biped that's not much evident. Especially since actual "humans" disappear being presented as "platforms" with unclear propriety, with tons of different commercial brands that belong to a sole subject but most people do not know or if they appear in person they present themself as "genius in it's lab", young happy hippy that "work for a better world".

And even worse, ancient dictatorship require strong power to stay and evolve, actual corporatocracy do not. They simply remains as the sole option to buy services or products. They do not have to prohibit something "free" like open PCs, open cars etc, they simply stop to produce them after having bought any possible other producer, substituting them with jails but well presented, well colored and of course "for our safety".

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Makes you wonder if a jail can be called such if it is made "fun". Eventually the need to maintain "fun" disappears if no options to leave are present.
It's depend on scale: if prisoners are few there is no need to make anything fun; if prisoners are an enormous amount of people and guards are a little group keep prisoners calm it's needed to avoid revolts.

Panem et circense always pay, at least as long as people can survive or have a bit of something to loose.