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@docrussjackson
Dec 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Elon Musk's Brave New World, where 'everyone is treated equally'.

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Social critic Neil Postman contrasted the worlds of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four & Huxley's Brave New World: "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."
"Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance."
"Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture..."
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The #Rwanda Plan, based on deterrence, is ineffective, expensive, & thoroughly neoliberal: based on rational choice theory, it assumes people act based on the costs & benefits of different actions. But the Plan ignores the evidence & the complex reality of the situation. Image
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In 2022, the Home Office considered giving Gideon Falter a role advising the Commission for Countering Extremism, but antisemitism tsar John Mann told Braverman he'd quit if Falter was appointed.

However, the MUCH BIGGER story concerns CCE Commissioner, Robin Simcox...
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The barbaric, divisive, ineffective & eye wateringly expensive #RwandaBill has finally passed.

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Today is one of Britain’s most shameful days ever: a stain on Britain’s reputation as a tolerant, fair-minded, lawful, democratic and welcoming country.

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The ACTUAL cost will be £1.8 MILLION for EACH of the first 300 deportees. There is ZERO evidence it will have a deterrent effect or be value for money.
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