After the first week of the Biden Administration, the themes are becoming clear.
We see a revolving door between the Administration and Big Tech elites who helped kill damaging stories about Biden during the campaign. Amazon, which destroyed its rival Parler with the help of Google and Apple, suddenly decides to distribute the vaccine.
The World Health Organization, on the same day that Biden rejoins it via executive order, quietly issues changes to COVID test criteria. Of course, this will send the counts of positive cases plummeting.
Governors and Mayors in California, New York, Michigan, DC, and Chicago, who’ve destroyed the lives of their constituents with draconian lockdowns, magically decide it’s safe to reopen.
Twitter then takes action against Antifa wiping out accounts now that their violence and ability to cause fear is no longer useful, and now shines a light and damages the Biden Administration.
So are things back to normal?
Now, you should be more pliable to the idea of setting up watchlists and reeducation camps.
Be content to know that when Big Government and Big Tech team up, no one with the ‘wrong ideas’ will ever hold power again.
So what you see emerging is the eternal battle between collectivism and individualism. On the one side is Big Gov’t, Big Money, Big Media, & Big Tech (collectively, the Elites). On the other is those who believe in the dignity and rights of the individual.
The reason the GME story has resonated with folks across the political spectrum is that it invokes a deeply American sense of fairness. The reaction to it may have exposed the most clear-cut line between the collectivist Elites and the individualists.
You can hear the elites, tucked away in some Hawaiian retreat, sipping the finest California wines and mocking American style individualism.
How long before forces of corruption, decadence, and our human instinct towards conformity strip away our exceptionalism?
Technology, Web 2.0, social media, which was supposed to allow decentralized participation by individuals in society, actually had the opposite result.
Collectivism never really took hold until now. With social media, we finally stepped into the cage ourselves.
Note: The French and Russian revolutions were both fomented by the Intelligentsia – educated elites who believed they could change millions of years of human nature and evolution through material conditions and social engineering.
The the unholy alliance of the Elites in Big Tech with Big Gov’t makes things even more dangerous. Orwell predicted this in 1984 with his vision of what Soviet and Maoist governments would look like with today’s technology.
Orwell’s one error was assuming that the tech would be subsumed under the government umbrella. Here what we’re seeing though is the illusion of independence. How else do you dupe an individualist society to voluntarily submit to collectivism?
Give them the illusion of choice and they’ll walk into the trap themselves. Like sheep to the slaughter.
Bob says
Do these individuals actually believe what they are saying
OR
Is this another casualty of social media
LOOK AT ME
Why else is social media popular
I myself
Not on any of it
Do not need or want it
Do not watch ANY of the media
They ALL are spindoctors
Look how fast Fox turned !
Remember
No matter your political viewpoint
Everyone is entitled to their own
When reasonable conversations are debated by differences, sometimes you actually learn something. You may not change your point of view , BUT you may have a better understanding of someone else’s .
George Foster says
Social Media has rotted our societies minds along the same lines as the Gangster Rap Culture continues to do to those who embrace it. I would not have a facebook, instgram or twitter account if I were paid $2000.00 a week per account to maintain.
MJM says
I don’t see an illusion. I see our government closing our businesses, being completely uncaring about the American taxpayer, a totally corrupt political class selling it’s favors for wealth, and the future will only get worse. Don’t forget that Bezos owns The Cloud.
Sorin Varzaru says
>a totally corrupt political class selling it’s favors for wealth
You voted for a billionaire who hasn’t paid taxes in years and put his family in charge, competent or not.
>I see our government closing our businesses,
Your freedom to swing your fist ends before it hits my face. So you can’t keep a business open that directly or indirectly contributes to the crisis we are facing. Balancing out the rights of the people affected by the closures and the wellness of the society in general is a political decision and the reason trump lost. US has the highest number of covid deaths/infections per capita and you and your friends choose to pretend it doesn’t happen. Me and my friends voted the orange clown out of office precisely for being incompetent (among many other reasons)
MJM says
Practicing artistic freedom of thought while you are writing these days ? CNN teach you that ? There are no charges pending vs. Trump Inc. regarding tax cheating. When Trump Inc. follows the laws of the IRS and doesn’t overpay taxes so that the business is more successful, he is not doing anything wrong. He is then doing it right. For some socialism promoting reason you seem to have a problem with that. It takes foresight and proper construction of your fiscal responsibilities to handle things with more profit and less tax responsibilities. He’s good at that foresight, and many in the other side of not so successful business are jealous of that. You begrudge him for that ? THAT is why I voted for him. So that he would run The Swamp out of business and begin to create a well balanced running of our federal government in a successful manner. Unfortunately for me, and even for you, YOU can’t see that. You would apparently rather see The Swamp take back over, the jobs eliminated on the pipeline, the covid19 disease sweep in over our southern border unabated . Yeah you’ve voted the really corrupt political class back in. The insider trading deal re:Tesla and Mr. Pelosi that net his $250K in 20 days, Hunter Biden’s continuing deals he hasn’t left behind, Jet setter Kerry helping his compadres in China make bank with solar panel deals and claim he’s for cleaner air. Janet Yellen being paid $millions by Wall St. so they can stop me and many others from buying Game Stop so they can try to short Game Stop down in a most un-American way. Neither I nor any of my friends ignore covid19. You see me in here stating belief in the shots. Got my first one already. Did you ? I also have always believed Trump led the world with his nationalist ideas that would have/should have closed our borders FIRST at the very beginning of covid threat. How is that ignoring the threat ? Pelosi and her flat out stupidity stopped those closures and kept travel wide open. travel. “Waaaahh. Trump is a racist” b.s. coming from her ignorant political mouth and she almost single handedly kept the Chinese and the tourists from there landing in our airports. N.Y. has the most flying in and out at their airports and that is why they got hit so bad. You don’t see that ? She kept more pressure down south on keeping that border open too. The business closures haven’t balanced out squat. Pelosi spread it and Cuomo and New Jersey’s Murphy killed our seniors. Eliminate the policies of THOSE 2 IDIOT SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS and the numbers are tons better. Sure, after that, do the best you can to slow it all down, but close the schools this long so kids suffer ? So the rest of the world gains even more on our education system because socialist teacher’s unions won’t waste a good pandemic to squeeze taxpayers for more money they will waste ? Those teachers aren’t heroes in those cities aren’t heroes. They’re cowards. Everybody else is trying to go to work. I didn’t swing my fist to try to hit your face. I have been at the docks STILL 5 days a week (weather permitting) working our clam beds. I am not a hero. I’m a working stiff. NY and NJ still have restaurants damn near closed, as does Uncle Ralph, and YEAH that means they are closing our businesses, while D.C, Kenosha, N.Y, Chicago, Seattle, Baltimore, and oh so many DEMOCRATIC cities are being laid to waste by permitted and almost sanctioned riots to destroy the very foundations this nation was built on. And you are blind to reality if you don’t see it.
Paul Plante says
And what you did was to vote in a two-time loser with a long record of real ****-ups coupled with no real accomplishment other than miraculously coming down with a real severe case of Asthma just before it was time for him to get on the line and defend our way of life and Constitution in Viet Nam like all those who weren’t Senator’s sons, who is now on the way to becoming America’s Nicolae Ceaușescu, which should make you feel like you are right back at home in Romania.
And PLEASE, don’t tell me I am a disgruntled Trump supporter because I never supported Trump and think he is a moron and an idiot and a fool.
I voted for Kanye West because of that pack of ******* losers, Kanye was the most presidential.