{"id":39459,"date":"2018-10-21T05:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T10:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39459"},"modified":"2018-10-21T19:23:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T00:23:36","slug":"more-of-the-unrelenting-data-collection-toward-totalitarian-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39459","title":{"rendered":"More of the Unrelenting Data Collection Toward Totalitarian Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

More of the Unrelenting Data Collection Toward Totalitarian Rule<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Totalitarian<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 Of or being a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute control over all aspects of life and opposition is outlawed; a practitioner or supporter of such a government.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd\u00a0Ed.<\/em><\/p>\n

We have almost reached the point where the country can be referred to as \u201ctotalitarian\u201d in accordance with the definition provided. Incrementally, it creeps forward: the \u201csoft\u201d tyranny. Curing, refining itself, and hardening, there will be a point of no return that is reached\u2026a point where it has metastasized until it is both all encompassing and ubiquitous.<\/p>\n

The problem is twofold: the incremental spread as mentioned, and the complacency and inability of people to recognize it for what it is. Someone posted a comment recently with a paragraph from Solzhenitsyn\u2019s \u201cGulag Archipelago\u201d where the author regretfully lamented the complacency displayed by the Russians as the country turned Communist overnight. His regret was that the citizenry could have stopped it with hatchets and pitchforks at that point if they had acted and been of one accord. I have recommended it as a \u201cmust read,\u201d and strongly advise you to consider it as a \u201cwindow\u201d to what is happening in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Two articles surfaced this week that are astonishing: they show the surveillance and data-collection \u201cculture\u201d that is being inflicted upon us, dulling our already stultified public into vapidity and inaction by desensitization. This latter term: the outrage of yesterday becomes the \u201caccepted\u201d and commonplace of today, and even further\/worse tomorrow. Paradigm shift.<\/p>\n

First, one written by Betsy Mikel entitled \u201cWalmart just made an announcement that may make you never want to shop there again<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0published on 10\/9\/18 by Inc. Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More of the Unrelenting Data Collection Toward Totalitarian Rule Totalitarian \u2013 Of or being a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute control over all aspects of life and opposition is outlawed; a practitioner or supporter of such a government. \u2013\u00a0American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd\u00a0Ed. We have almost reached the point where the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6153,11133,5570,18750,6490,1213,827],"class_list":["post-39459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-data-collection","tag-jerimiah-johnson","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-personal-data","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-totalitarianism","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39460,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39459\/revisions\/39460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}