WORSE than 1984? This 3000-year-old prediction is coming true NOW

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Orwell feared the truth would be concealed from us Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance this channel Soul words is about spiritual ideas and application to personal growth I'm not a political scientist I'm not a social critic but I think this is an important idea to discuss that can help us understand the way that the Jewish Prophets foresaw The Ultimate phase of History so first of all do we live in History so first of all do we live in Orwell's 1984. it's a question a lot of people ask the answer According to some is no but we live in a different dystopia that was envisioned by another English intellectual author Aldous Huxley namely in his work A Brave New World this contrast of Orwell's dystopia and huxley's dystopia was originally pointed out by a social critic by the name of Neil Postman or revnayak name of Neil Postman or revnayak Maisha I don't know if he was ever referred to that in his lifetime but that's what his uh gravestone says and will mention his name for a blessing back in the 80s Postman was already warning about the dangers of Technology this is way before the internet ERA this is way before social media there's a way before the search engine bubble and the algorithms and Postman was already warning that technology was ruining us he gave an example he said that in the

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1. 0:00Orwell feared the truth would be concealed from us Huxley feared the truth would be drowned…
2. 1:03name of Neil Postman or revnayak Maisha I don't know if he was ever referred to…
3. 2:03party primaries where is the beef which was a big advertising slogan of Wendy's at the…
4. 3:03be too much work or to quote from Postman Orwell feared the truth would be concealed…
5. 4:36year the life of Noah all Wellsprings of the great deep burst open and the windows…
6. 5:36people knew about the way the world worked in the mid-1800s compared to a century before…
7. 6:36problematic but it's not inherently a catastrophe to the contrary it can actually be part of…
8. 7:37enough arable land then there were Innovations in in food technology and now our problem is…
9. 8:42getting to a point where we live in a world that is inundated with truthful information…
10. 9:43put out their information yes that's one of the biggest problems of the internet however that's…

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