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Lähettäjä: Hendrik Boom
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Aihe: Re: [DNG] ..so, Orson Welles and Aldous Huxley predicted Microsoft & Lennart Poettering's "Brave New Trusted Boot World"? :oD [OT]
On Sat, Nov 05, 2022 at 05:10:57AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Nov 2022 20:25:57 +0000, Simon wrote in message
> <F5AA5C76-494B-4295-8B6F-7698D1AA7B9E@???>:
>
> > On November 4, 2022 7:30:46 PM UTC, Antony Stone
> > <Antony.Stone@???> wrote:
> > >On Friday 04 November 2022 at 20:12:58, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > >
> > >> https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/26/tightening_linux_boot_process_micr
> > >> osoft_poettering/?
> > >
> > >> https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/03/version_252_systemd/?utm_source=da
> > >> ily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=top-article
> > >
> > >> 2 great old "science fiction" novels turned general history
> > >> lessons on totalitarian German speaking vanity war makers: ;o)
> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
> > >
> > > Thanks for heads-up.
> > >
> > > With all due respect to your Subject line, however, those novels
> > > were written by Aldous Huxley and Eric Blair (better known as George
> > > Orwell) :)
>
> ..amaaazing how I managed to read "George Orwell" as "Orson Welles",
> thanks for correcting me, I also managed to miss adding this fine link
> to my post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_personality


See also Bob Altmeyer's book the Authoritarians.
It summarises his life's work for a general audience.

author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Altemeyer
free download: http://www.theauthoritarians.org/options-for-getting-the-book/

-- hendrik