You got to hand it to the oligarchs who tyrannize over us. They are so well-established that they can lie, steal and cheat with absolutely no fear that their misconduct coming to light will have any negative effect on their power.
Tinpot dictators in Africa have to hide their corruption, because they fear that the population would overthrow them if their corruption came to light. Ours is openly corrupt with no fear whatsoever.
They don't bother to censor us, not because they believe in free speech, because our free speech will not undermine their power.
"It is better to be feared than loved, but it is best to be both" -Machiavelli.
I don't know how or why they attained the love of the nation, the fear is nice and clear with their random arrests and solitary confinement torture sessions, but how did they ever get to be so loved that they can overtly admit wrongdoing and people just let it go?
Simple: Third World shit holes have poor standards of living; it puts people on edge.
The first world is still comfortable. Why revolt?You’ll lose your car, your home, electricity, running water, well-stocked grocery stores, etc.
Aldous Huxley, the author of ‘Brave New World, critized Orson Welles for his depiction of complete totalitarianism in ‘Ninteen Eighty-Four’. In a letter to Welles, Huxley wrote:
“Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World."
"Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."
I’ve come to believe Huxley to be correct. Why threaten violence upon the population when you can just promise them all their needs are satiated with cruddy, addictive food, brainwashing entertainment, and free money. And all they have to do it’s sign away their right to choose, to self determination, and to privacy.
We're literally on a censorship evasion website lol.
To be fair though, it's not even hard for them to do it because the useful idiots that have made themselves corporate foot soldiers do all the man work for them for free.
Our county basically polled businesses on whether or not they would accept limited reopening if it meant they had to mandate customers wear masks.
Businesses of course wanted to reopen.
So the county claimed that masking was not based on any science but was being done because the businesses requested it before they would reopen.
Of course they enforced this thing the businesses "asked" for with massive fines and threatening to shut down those businesses if they didn't enforce masking on their own customers.
It's all just a huge web of "county said, business said, province said, federal said" and absolutely no one actually takes direct responsibility for it. But their all proud to be enforcing what the other person in the chain told them to enforce.
Then of course the other branch of government is full of propaganda puff pieces about "how great it is that EVERYONE is going along with the masking without any issues whatsoever!" While weekly protests never saw a single word in print.
You got to hand it to the oligarchs who tyrannize over us. They are so well-established that they can lie, steal and cheat with absolutely no fear that their misconduct coming to light will have any negative effect on their power.
Tinpot dictators in Africa have to hide their corruption, because they fear that the population would overthrow them if their corruption came to light. Ours is openly corrupt with no fear whatsoever.
They don't bother to censor us, not because they believe in free speech, because our free speech will not undermine their power.
"It is better to be feared than loved, but it is best to be both" -Machiavelli.
I don't know how or why they attained the love of the nation, the fear is nice and clear with their random arrests and solitary confinement torture sessions, but how did they ever get to be so loved that they can overtly admit wrongdoing and people just let it go?
Simple: Third World shit holes have poor standards of living; it puts people on edge.
The first world is still comfortable. Why revolt?You’ll lose your car, your home, electricity, running water, well-stocked grocery stores, etc.
Aldous Huxley, the author of ‘Brave New World, critized Orson Welles for his depiction of complete totalitarianism in ‘Ninteen Eighty-Four’. In a letter to Welles, Huxley wrote:
“Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World."
"Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."
I’ve come to believe Huxley to be correct. Why threaten violence upon the population when you can just promise them all their needs are satiated with cruddy, addictive food, brainwashing entertainment, and free money. And all they have to do it’s sign away their right to choose, to self determination, and to privacy.
Orson Welles didn't write nineteen eightyfour. George Orwell did.
But they do censor us though.
We're literally on a censorship evasion website lol.
To be fair though, it's not even hard for them to do it because the useful idiots that have made themselves corporate foot soldiers do all the man work for them for free.
"We have to look like we are doing something."
"But there are actually things we can do to hel..."
"THOSE COST MONEY!"
"Free advice, just words to the media..."
"SHUT THE FUCK UP! We're going with the authoritarian shit and you'll like it!"
Our county basically polled businesses on whether or not they would accept limited reopening if it meant they had to mandate customers wear masks.
Businesses of course wanted to reopen.
So the county claimed that masking was not based on any science but was being done because the businesses requested it before they would reopen.
Of course they enforced this thing the businesses "asked" for with massive fines and threatening to shut down those businesses if they didn't enforce masking on their own customers.
It's all just a huge web of "county said, business said, province said, federal said" and absolutely no one actually takes direct responsibility for it. But their all proud to be enforcing what the other person in the chain told them to enforce.
Then of course the other branch of government is full of propaganda puff pieces about "how great it is that EVERYONE is going along with the masking without any issues whatsoever!" While weekly protests never saw a single word in print.
Good post, sir/ma'am.
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Is that deflection? They could have at least ran with the "We had no data but we decided it was better to be safe than sorry" excuse.