Loved the video, Morgoth (watched it there first). Just curious, did any of the left-leaning video essayists see that the "state" is much closer to them; even hint at it? The essay indicates to me (especially at the end) that they knew but deliberately didn't mention it.
Thanks. Generally they're just stuck, focussed on the Fascism of the 30s. I find it an interesting way to needle them, and I hope my video kicks off a wider discourse on YouTube.
This hits hard. Ernest “Dedra’s” who infest the information safety arms of the public service often have laptops emblazoned with the rebel alliance sticker. Worse, they fret about “social cohesion” while writing reports full of phobia buzzwords that darkly hints at a populist (but not representative of “communities”) rise of the far right if their work falls from political priority.
I, too, am not persuaded that the dinghy-invaders are being shipped in to train as an army of foreign occupation. The reason? Because our own police and security services have shown themselves to be gleefully willing to crack our heads whenever they are asked to do so. They feel neither loyalty to nor affinity with the British people and it would not surprise me if they had been conditioned, at least the senior ones, to think of us as the enemy.
Would they herd us into cattle cars if ordered to do so? You bet they would. So who needs Albanians or Syrians who might actually prove less efficient and so less reliable?
There is no such thing as the "ordinary,decent copper" and people on our side need to bury this myth. It may have been true once but it is no longer true. They hate us and its time we reciprocated.
I noticed something troubling recently, I've been sending emails to people I work for asking them to look at my portfolio for 2022, in the email I add a link to my protfolio. Before the email is sent the browser pops up a message asking me if I have forgotten to add an attachment because I have asked the recipient to look at my portfolio. So iCloud is scanning the content of my email before it is sent. No doubt they will be schooling us on acceptable language and content too, and when that is done, they will be controlling not only our messages, but also our thinking.
I presume that every keystroke I have made in the last ten years has been recorded and artificially analysed somewhere. I also presume that any of the companies that offer any kind of online privacy are essentially in the hands of the government as well.
It's more beneficial to just view the internet (and technology, generally) as some kind of rigged casino that we have been made addicted to by a bunch of despicable people who are frankly a lot smarter than us. We need to figure out how we are going to find the strength to walk out of the casino, rather than looking for a straight table-game to play in after finding out that all the others were crooked.
I'm as far away from the exit as the rest of you are and have just ordered food.
I certainly feel like the person standing in fron of the map at the amusement park, looking at the arrow that says "You are here", and wondering how they know. However I don't think that there are smarter people rigging the game, I think we are dealing with people who are mentally abnormal.
They are smart enough to know how to become the slave-masters and not the slaves. Those who are considered mentally normal, probably more than 90% of the population, regard the likes of you and me as being hateful bigots who belong behind bars or at the rope's end. But my point is the that technology is only ever beneficial to the powerful, ultimately. Every invention makes our lives easier and seemingly freer, in the beginning. It's only a matter of time before it's used to control us even further. Turning our backs on technology won't make us safe, but does turn us into the highest hanging fruit on the tree. The goat-herder with an acre of fertile land but no electricity, who lives in rural Paraguay, is in a much better position than we are right now. They will come for him much later, if at all.
Wonderfully insightful article. However the assumption of the 'banality' of evil lets them off the very hook you want to place them on - accountability. Saying evil was 'banal' was a convenient fiction to explain the genuine popularity of a certain mid-20th Century regime amongst millions of Germans. That situation was a genuinely populist government, which is quite different to the regimes of today. The comparatively tiny number of apparatchiks and supporters that facilitate the Western systems today are not acting out of banality, but out of malice, contempt and resentment, and therefore are indeed evil in the only sense that is and ever was meaningful, i.e. deliberately so.
Brilliant again mate.
I love these essays. You have a gift my friend.
Cheers mate. Getting back into the video essay format after the Christmas streaming fest.
Loved the video, Morgoth (watched it there first). Just curious, did any of the left-leaning video essayists see that the "state" is much closer to them; even hint at it? The essay indicates to me (especially at the end) that they knew but deliberately didn't mention it.
Thanks. Generally they're just stuck, focussed on the Fascism of the 30s. I find it an interesting way to needle them, and I hope my video kicks off a wider discourse on YouTube.
This hits hard. Ernest “Dedra’s” who infest the information safety arms of the public service often have laptops emblazoned with the rebel alliance sticker. Worse, they fret about “social cohesion” while writing reports full of phobia buzzwords that darkly hints at a populist (but not representative of “communities”) rise of the far right if their work falls from political priority.
Haha yeah exactly.
I, too, am not persuaded that the dinghy-invaders are being shipped in to train as an army of foreign occupation. The reason? Because our own police and security services have shown themselves to be gleefully willing to crack our heads whenever they are asked to do so. They feel neither loyalty to nor affinity with the British people and it would not surprise me if they had been conditioned, at least the senior ones, to think of us as the enemy.
Would they herd us into cattle cars if ordered to do so? You bet they would. So who needs Albanians or Syrians who might actually prove less efficient and so less reliable?
There is no such thing as the "ordinary,decent copper" and people on our side need to bury this myth. It may have been true once but it is no longer true. They hate us and its time we reciprocated.
I noticed something troubling recently, I've been sending emails to people I work for asking them to look at my portfolio for 2022, in the email I add a link to my protfolio. Before the email is sent the browser pops up a message asking me if I have forgotten to add an attachment because I have asked the recipient to look at my portfolio. So iCloud is scanning the content of my email before it is sent. No doubt they will be schooling us on acceptable language and content too, and when that is done, they will be controlling not only our messages, but also our thinking.
I presume that every keystroke I have made in the last ten years has been recorded and artificially analysed somewhere. I also presume that any of the companies that offer any kind of online privacy are essentially in the hands of the government as well.
It's more beneficial to just view the internet (and technology, generally) as some kind of rigged casino that we have been made addicted to by a bunch of despicable people who are frankly a lot smarter than us. We need to figure out how we are going to find the strength to walk out of the casino, rather than looking for a straight table-game to play in after finding out that all the others were crooked.
I'm as far away from the exit as the rest of you are and have just ordered food.
I certainly feel like the person standing in fron of the map at the amusement park, looking at the arrow that says "You are here", and wondering how they know. However I don't think that there are smarter people rigging the game, I think we are dealing with people who are mentally abnormal.
They are smart enough to know how to become the slave-masters and not the slaves. Those who are considered mentally normal, probably more than 90% of the population, regard the likes of you and me as being hateful bigots who belong behind bars or at the rope's end. But my point is the that technology is only ever beneficial to the powerful, ultimately. Every invention makes our lives easier and seemingly freer, in the beginning. It's only a matter of time before it's used to control us even further. Turning our backs on technology won't make us safe, but does turn us into the highest hanging fruit on the tree. The goat-herder with an acre of fertile land but no electricity, who lives in rural Paraguay, is in a much better position than we are right now. They will come for him much later, if at all.
Wonderfully insightful article. However the assumption of the 'banality' of evil lets them off the very hook you want to place them on - accountability. Saying evil was 'banal' was a convenient fiction to explain the genuine popularity of a certain mid-20th Century regime amongst millions of Germans. That situation was a genuinely populist government, which is quite different to the regimes of today. The comparatively tiny number of apparatchiks and supporters that facilitate the Western systems today are not acting out of banality, but out of malice, contempt and resentment, and therefore are indeed evil in the only sense that is and ever was meaningful, i.e. deliberately so.
something about that blonde, i want her to restrain me and have her way...
Also, you can tell Star Wars is running thinnon ideas when they cant even come up with original names: "L(Ando"r), "(Ca)lri(ssian)"
I have to admit I'm a bit of a Dedra simp myself. The actress is actually a lively Irish lass.