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| Subject: A Real Dystopian City Nightmare: Sonic Repellants, Cameras Used On Young Citizens in This US City Fri Jul 19, 2019 8:25 pm | |
| The year is 1947. A dissident Chinese novelist named Lao Tsu secretly releases the manuscript for his most famous magnum opus, “Delphi.” A dystopian tale foreshadowing the coming collectivist apocalypse in Lao’s home nation, “Delphi,” depicts a young man trapped in the dark, oppressive city of the future. Taxes eat earnings like acid eats flesh. Cameras monitor every movement in the “public square,” and the creeping totalitarianism of the government sees police and bureaucrats install sonic machines to repel people 25 years of age and under, for only their young ears can detect the high-pitched, irritating, headache-inducing sound. Today, no copy of the novel exists. Because the novel never existed. I made it up. But the dystopian nightmare does exist -- in Philadelphia, PA. Local station WPVI-TV has uncovered information that, since 2014, the Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Department has been operating what are called “Mosquitoes,” or sonic devices that pump out a sound at a frequency that only people 25 years of age and younger can hear. And it bothers them.
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/real-dystopian-city-nightmare-sonic-repellants-cameras-used-push-young-citizens
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