Encouragement of each individual to be concerned only with immediate environment - Cut-off from bigger picture - Withholding of data, promotion of trivia. Nothing is given to public that might upset the system - Topics of debate, entertainment, information. Monitoring of public and all buying and selling. Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis" - Nuclear Energy - Atomist organizations of Ancient Greece - ATOM=ADAM (Microcosm). Psychological Warfare - Giving up before anything starts. Elitist Utopia run by intellectuals - Rosicrucians - Pyramid schemes. Hereditary nobility - Lords - Wigs (curls-degrees) -- Feb. 1929 magazine article (listen to blurb for article source) -- - Babies Will Be Produced by Chemists in Laboratories (Year 2029) - Changing institution of marriage - Life-expectancy - Synthetic food - Climate alteration - Scientific discoveries altering human life. Physics - World supply of cheap energy - Atomic energy - Geographic alteration - Harnessing wind power. Wind power - Tidal energy - Reducing speed of Earth's rotation - 48 hour day. Wireless telephones - Stereoscopic television (in color) - Computer voting. New chemical substances for "human enjoyment." Realization of "secrets of living chemistry" of human body - Life-extension. Solving "mysteries" of human heredity - Eugenics - Intelligent combinations of "suitable genes" - Ectogenic birth - Ectogenesis. Reactions of public are figured out and overcome in advance. Breeding a nation of "industrial dullards" (morons) - Planned Society - Ectogenic slave of future (happy doing his task) - Worker bee - Robot - GOLEM. Laboratory-grown meats - "Chemical Nourishment" - Agriculture as a "rich man's hobby." (Song: "Keep Your Eyes on Palestine" by Larry Norman) *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - July 18, 2007 (Exempting Music and Literary Quotes)

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