{"id":64149,"date":"2022-11-17T07:48:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T12:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64149"},"modified":"2022-11-17T07:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T12:48:15","slug":"the-road-to-totalitarianism-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64149","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Totalitarianism\u00a0(Revisited)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It feels like it\u2019s finally over, doesn\u2019t it, the whole \u201capocalyptic pandemic\u201d thing? I mean, really, really over this time. Not like all those other times when you thought it was over, but it wasn\u2019t over, and was like the end of those\u00a0Alien\u00a0<\/em>movies, where it seems like Ripley has finally escaped, but the alien is hiding out in the shuttle, or the escape pod, or Ripley\u2019s intestinal tract.<\/p>\n

But this time doesn\u2019t feel like that. This time it feels like it\u2019s really, really over. Go out and take a look around. Hardly anyone is wearing masks anymore (except where masks are mandatory) or being coerced into submitting to \u201cvaccinations\u201d (except where \u201cvaccination\u201d is mandatory), and the hordes of hate-drunk New Normal fanatics who demanded that \u201cthe Unvaccinated\u201d be segregated, censored, fired from their jobs, and otherwise demonized and persecuted, have all fallen silent (except for those who haven\u2019t).<\/p>\n

Everything is back to normal, right?<\/p>\n

Wrong. Everything is not back to normal. Everything is absolutely New Normal. What is over is the \u201cshock-and-awe\u201d phase, which was never meant to go on forever. It was always only meant to get us here.<\/p>\n

Where, you\u2019re probably asking, is \u201chere\u201d? \u201cHere\u201d is a place where the new official ideology has been firmly established as our new \u201creality,\u201d woven into the fabric of normal everyday life. No, not everywhere, just everywhere that matters. (Do you really think the global-capitalist ruling classes care what people in Lakeland, Florida, Elk River, Idaho, or some village in Sicily believe about \u201creality\u201d?) Yes, most government restrictions have been lifted, mainly because they are no longer necessary, but in centers of power throughout the West, in political, corporate, and cultural spheres, in academia, the mainstream media, and so on, the New Normal has become \u201creality,\u201d or, in other words, \u201cjust the way it is,\u201d which is the ultimate goal of every ideology.<\/p>\n

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The Road to Totalitarianism\u00a0(Revisited) It feels like it\u2019s finally over, doesn\u2019t it, the whole \u201capocalyptic pandemic\u201d thing? I mean, really, really over this time. Not like all those other times when you thought it was over, but it wasn\u2019t over, and was like the end of those\u00a0Alien\u00a0movies, where it seems like Ripley has finally escaped, […]<\/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":[14578,33375,607,1213],"class_list":["post-64149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cj-hopkins","tag-consent-factory","tag-pandemic","tag-totalitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64149","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=64149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64150,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64149\/revisions\/64150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}