#piracy

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kow-towed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income. It is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. Still, it is a family. It has its private language and its common memories, and at the approach of an enemy it closes its ranks. A family with the wrong members in control - that, perhaps is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ↗

— George Orwell

#conspiracy #control #defence #england #family

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#corruption #government #politics #corruption

If “piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if “if value, then right” is true- then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of “big media” today- film, records, radio, and cable TV-was born of a kind of piracy so defined. The consistent story is how last generation’s pirates join this generation’s country club-until now. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#media #piracy #nature

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life. ↗

— David Duchovny

#conspiracy #existence #extraterrestrial #hide #i

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#conspiracy #down #dumb #exactly #get

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#main #music #online #our #overt

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#against #any #citizens #conspiracy #each

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. ↗

— Charles Fort

#deception #fortean #hypnosis #manipulation #mind-control

Earlier today I was eating a nugget. ↗

— Angello Wellson-Noble

#inspirational #science #inspirational

Blankets are good to carry around if you want to be able to quickly black bag someone. ↗

— Nicole McKay

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #conspiracy #funny