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LP's avatar

That last, very accurate, paragraph just makes me sad. The whole thing just leaves so many of us with a combination of sadness, bereavement for a lost way of life, and rage.

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“How many people on the planet have now been acculturated to top-down control, socialized to live in fear, accept whatever comes down from above, never to question an edict, and expect to live in a world of rolling man-made disasters?”

On the other hand, as highlighted by el gato malo, the opposite may also be occurring—i.e., the eyes of millions have been opened to the fraudulent and tyrannical potential of our current system:

“the scope of acceptable public discourse and ideas that are able to capture the center [eg., disband the CDC] has, driven by an extravagant object lesson in the dangers of agency capture under technocratic rule, shifted extraordinarily because let’s face it: there is nothing like seeing what you believe to be the robust apparatus of a high-tech safety state revealed to be a careening clown car of technocratic tyranny that has, to no good end, mowed down everything in its path for years and inflicted perhaps the most grievous peacetime harm america has ever experienced.”

More at:

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/disband-the-cdc-goes-mainstream

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