Category: totalitarianism

The Drones Of Labor Day: An Unpacking

     This tidbit should be inspiring more questions than it is at present:      The New York Police Department will dispatch drones to monitor backyard parties and private social gatherings over Labor Day weekend in response to any complaints. However, some are saying that drone surveillance by police would be an invasion of privacy.      …

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Can Everything Be Digitized?

     From a recent essay by Leo Hohmann:      Technocracy is much different than Marxism or communism. In a Marxist state you have government ownership of the means of production. But in a technocracy, which is the preferred model of self-appointed globalist elites at the World Economic Forum, the Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation, Club of …

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Targets And Guards

     If you’re a longtime Gentle Reader, you’ve surely seen this Clarence Carson quote before:      [W]e are told that there is no need to fear the concentration of power in government so long as that power is checked by the electoral process. We are urged to believe that so long as we can express …

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The Plunderers Hunger

     I remember quite clearly being taught that greed is one of the seven capital sins. It seems those bits of Christian teaching have been “redacted” for left-wing politicians. For them “greed” is something other people feel…for wanting to keep their earnings. Thus it comes as no surprise when an avowed socialist demands that some …

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Whence The Barbarians?

     I do hope you like quotes, because you’re about to get a lot of them:      The day will come when a multitude of people will choose the legislature. Is it possible to doubt what sort of a legislature will be chosen? On the one side is a statesman preaching patience, respect for rights, …

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First Thought Of The Day

     In Eric Drexler’s seminal Engines of Creation, the first book for laymen about the promise and perils of nanotechnology, he writes:      States have needed people as workers because human labor has been the necessary foundation of power. What is more, genocide has been expensive and troublesome to organize and execute. Yet, in this …

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