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Musk Just Made Big Brother A Reality

The age of totalitarian AI is coming.

5 min readMay 13, 2025

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Did you know George Orwell was a self-described democratic socialist? You might not, considering some of his most seminal works are twisted and touted by the likes of Jordan Peterson. But Orwell’s works beautifully depict how communism and capitalism are slippery slopes to totalitarianism and tyranny, yet we are often only shown one side of this coin. Sure, most of his works mainly pointed towards Communism, but he saw the exact same totalitarian mechanisms in capitalism. Don’t forget that in 1984, he wrote, “The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave… If anyone disobeyed them, they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death.” Why does this matter? Because arguably the most influential capitalist in the world, Mr “free-speech absolutist” Musk, has just made Orwell’s most demonic and dystopian prediction, 1984’s Big Brother and thoughtcrime, a reality. So, welcome to the age of AI totalitarianism; it’s all downhill from here.

Sounds like I’m exaggerating, right?

Well, multiple reports have come out that DOGE has deployed its AI tools across multiple federal agencies to automate firings of employees by identifying anti-Trump or Musk sentiment in their communications. There is zero evidence…

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Will Lockett
Will Lockett

Written by Will Lockett

Independent journalist covering global politics, climate change and technology. Get articles early at www.planetearthandbeyond.co

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