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Stegiel's avatar

To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”

― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century

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Richard Seager's avatar

Another thing is that all those things that are strictly speaking 'against the law' but which you do everyday without consequences are in tomorrow's AI world going to levy several thousand dollars of fines on you a day. And yes thousands, in Australia some minor infractions will score you an 8k fine.

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Stegiel's avatar

Last few months I have wondered how much more the system can sustain until it collapses. Injections may be 100's of deep black bio-hacking ideas rolled out in populations My interest presently is outcomes from injections. People are dying on the job. Accidents on the rise. Summer travel will be interesting. As to the past, it is just so. A cautionary tale or one filled with sound and fury. Our time is a debased period for humanity. Technics destroyed us.

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