Dystopian
visionary quotes from Brzezinski's book
"Between Two Ages" written back in 1970
"a system that would seriously impair the
brain performance of very large populations"
(page
57):
"In addition...
future developments may well include automated or manned
space warships, deep-sea installations, chemical and
biological weapons, death rays, and still other forms of
warfare--even the weather may be tampered with.*
"In addition, it
may be possible--and tempting--to exploit for
strategic-political purposes the fruits of research on the
brain and on human behavior. Gordon J. F. MacDonald, a
geophysicist specializing in problems of warfare, has
written that timed artificially excited electronic strokes
could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce
relatively high power levels over certain regions of the
earth.... In this way, one could develop a system that would seriously impair the
brain performance of very large populations in
selected regions over an extended period.... No matter how
deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to
manipulate behavior for national advantages to some, the
technology permitting such use will very probably develop
within the next few decades."
"...techniques
for conducting
secret warfare"
(footnote
page 57)
"As one
specialist noted, 'By the year 2018,
technology
will make available to the leaders of the major nations, a
variety of
techniques for conducting
secret warfare,
of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be
appraised. One nation may attack a competitor covertly
by bacteriological means, thoroughly weakening the
population (though with a minimum of fatalities) before
taking over with its own armed forces. Alternatively,
techniques of weather modification could be employed to
produce prolonged periods of drought or storm....(Gordon
J. F. MacDonald, "Space," in Toward the year 2018,
p.34).
"
"Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by
traditional values."
"Soon
it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance
over every citizen.... "
“The technetronic
era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society.
Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by
traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost
continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date
complete files containing even the most personal information about
the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval
by the authorities.”
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