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After two years of covid tyranny and the ruling class’s seeming dedication to thrust us into WWIII with Russia and China concurrently, it’s time to talk about the Anatomy of a Police State that grows like a poisonous week throughout us.
You see it throughout you. You sense it instinctively. You hear it, you’ll be able to virtually scent it. All over the place the partitions are closing in on freedom of speech, freedom of affiliation, freedom from politicization of each small nook of our personal lives. Particularly freedom to suppose and act in any means opposite to the dictat of a government-media overclass as oppressive and obsessive about imposing the “occasion line” as something we have seen in earlier authoritarian eras in historical past.
The web was imagined to make us free and, to some extent, it has offered alternatives for the “small” gamers to achieve what was as soon as solely accessible to the well-heeded institution establishments.
However the web and the digitalization of life usually has additionally offered unhealthy actors such because the state and its numerous obedient enforcers within the “personal” sector (equivalent to social media and linked companies) with heretofore unimaginable instruments to suppress “disallowed” ideas.
An unbiased media entity can work for years increase an viewers after which with the flip of a change its complete attain will be erased. A metaphorical fuel-air explosion obliterating even the reminiscence of the entity.
Maybe apocryphally, Trotsky is alleged to have uttered the well-known line, “to oppose the state is to die a gradual hunger.” Nowhere is that extra evident in our occasions, the place one phrase from Paypal can starve unbiased media in a single day. And it’s occurring as we converse.
The 1st step: Set up (with all help from the state) a complete or near-total of monopoly over commerce.
Step two: Disappear all voices difficult state narratives to the digital gulag. Rinse and repeat till the state narrative is all that is still.
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