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The Dangers of Totalitarian Planning, Past and Present
THE DANGERS OF TOTALITARIAN PLANNING, PAST AND PRESENT Liberty is a delicate idea and institution. While people say they want freedom, fight under the banner of freedom, and even sometimes die for its preservation and advancement, determining what it actually means to be free and to live in a free society seems often elusive and […]
The Coming Collapse
The Coming Collapse Mr. Fish / Truthdig The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product of our failed democracy. The longer we perpetuate the fiction that we […]
The Macedonian “Name Deal” Is A Dystopian Nightmare Of Totalitarian Control
The Macedonian “Name Deal” Is A Dystopian Nightmare Of Totalitarian Control Marketed as a long-awaited diplomatic breakthrough to a supposedly irreconcilable identity issue, the “name deal” represents nothing less than the full and total capitulation of the post-“constitutional coup” Macedonian authorities to their Greek neighbors with implications that stretch far and beyond simply fast tracking […]
American Totalitarianism and the Culture of Fake News
American Totalitarianism and the Culture of Fake News American citizens have a problem telling the difference between facts and opinion. That’s the finding of a recent survey carried out by the respected Pew organization. It was found that only a quarter of the people polled were able to correctly distinguish between a factual statement and […]
Government Eyes Are Watching You: We Are All Prisoners of the Surveillance State
Government Eyes Are Watching You: We Are All Prisoners of the Surveillance State “We’re run by the Pentagon, we’re run by Madison Avenue, we’re run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don’t revolt we’ll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche…. As long as we go […]
Fine-Tuning the Surveillance State
Fine-Tuning the Surveillance State We have been watching the shift of society and all of its components to collectivist thought and action in preparation for the step into a full-blown totalitarian state. Already the Constitution and our rights enumerated within it have been relegated to impotency and practically abrogated. The key to this has not […]
Liberal Totalitarianism
Paco Freire/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Liberal Totalitarianism It used to be an axiom of liberalism that freedom meant inalienable self-ownership. But liberal individualism seems to have been defeated by a totalitarianism that grew out of its own success at legitimizing the encroachment of branding and commodification into our personal space. LISBON – It used […]
Rulers, ‘Foolers,’ and Shooters: They’re Closing the Cage in Plain Sight
Rulers, ‘Foolers,’ and Shooters: They’re Closing the Cage in Plain Sight A picture that has been around awhile depicts Homo sapiens society at its finest…as it truly is. There are four “tiers,” so to speak, with the politicians, royalty, and rulers occupying the uppermost level, followed by the clergymen and religious swamis on tier two, […]
Total Control: New Measures Toward Global Totalitarianism
Total Control: New Measures Toward Global Totalitarianism For those who have read “1984” by George Orwell, it is almost prophetic in its depth and accuracy. The reason that the warning has not been heeded is that change takes place with glacial slowness. Sometimes the changes take so long they dull the senses and we become […]
Chris Hedges: U.S. citizens are living in an inverted totalitarian country
Chris Hedges: U.S. citizens are living in an inverted totalitarian country Chris Hedges The mainstream media deflects attention from where power resides: corporations, not with the leaders of the free world. The arguments posed by Chris Hedges, that the U.S. is neither a democracy nor a republic but a totalitarian state that can now assassinate […]
China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Sounds Pretty Dystopian, but Are We Far Behind?
China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Sounds Pretty Dystopian, but Are We Far Behind? The ACLU declared China’s system “nightmarish,” and it’s not difficult to see why. In its third season, the British science fiction TV series Black Mirror featured an episode called “Nosedive.” The episode, which was co-written by The Office actress Rashida Jones and starred Bryce Howard, depicted a society […]
What’s Going Down in China is Very Dangerous – Part 2
What’s Going Down in China is Very Dangerous – Part 2 One of the more concerning ramifications of China’s recent turn toward a more totalitarian stance at home is what it means for the geopolitical environment in the years ahead. Several people asked in the comment section of Part 1 why I care about what’s […]
What’s Going Down in China is Very Dangerous – Part 1
What’s Going Down in China is Very Dangerous – Part 1 I’m sure all of you are aware of the dramatic power play pulled off over the weekend by China’s Communist Party to eliminate term limits for both the president and vice president. Prior to the move, Chinese leaders have stuck to two five-year terms since […]
Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better: Round Ups, Checkpoints and National ID Cards [SHORT]
Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better: Round Ups, Checkpoints and National ID Cards [SHORT] Here in Amerika, things are getting worse—not better—as the nation inches ever closer towards totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and “we the people” have none. Take what happened recently in Ft. […]
Why the Worst Humans Are Able to Rise to Power
Why the Worst Humans Are Able to Rise to Power In chapter ten of The Road to Serfdom, “Why the Worst Get on Top,” Hayek continues to warn about the dangers of planned economies, but with a slightly different approach from earlier chapters. Stepping into new territory, here we see Hayek not only identifying economic […]
