Another Example of Gradually Then Suddenly. A Well-Written Article Posted on ZeroHedge

[sharick]

I found this treatise on property rights and perception of liberty not only worthy of my time to read and read again, but to share it.

The opening sentence caught my attention and can be applied to more than just property rights. I often wonder whether the rise of western philosophy, wealth, freedom and most significantly, technology, the past 500 years, was organic. Or maybe, just maybe, the great experiment in self-government that started in the U.S., was simply the mechanism to get western man to build the prison for his progeny and the world, one brick, one electrified fence, one 5G tower at a time?

Opening:
*" There are periods in history when societies begin to discover that the liberties they believed to be permanent were, in reality, conditional arrangements tolerated only while they remained politically convenient. Across the Western world, governments are quietly expanding the legal and administrative mechanisms through which private land can be reclassified, restricted, absorbed, or transferred in the name of infrastructure, sustainability, industrial security, climate adaptation, and economic modernization. Entire farming regions are now being surveyed for carbon pipelines. Rural communities are facing unprecedented redevelopment pressure linked to energy transitions and semiconductor expansion. Financial institutions are purchasing strategic agricultural land at historic levels while policymakers openly discuss the restructuring of urban life around centralized digital systems. Officially, these transformations are described as progress. Unofficially, an increasing number of citizens have begun to suspect that the modern definition of ownership itself is being rewritten in real time."
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In between are some 41 equally compelling paragraphs.
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Closing:
" And perhaps that is the most unsettling aspect of the entire debate: the possibility that the transformation is not arriving through dramatic revolution, military force, or visible dictatorship, but through a slow and highly sophisticated convergence of technology, economic planning, environmental policy, financial centralization, and administrative normalization that redefines ownership so gradually that many citizens may not fully recognize the implications until the older understanding of liberty has already faded into history."

[sunnyboy]

Thanks for sharing these insightful quotes – sounds like the author of that article (on “ZH”?) has been thinking about the meaning and value behind the concept of “private” property, and how it conceptually shifts through the ages, depending on how the overlords want to steer resource use. In a world with 8 billion plus people, they’ve got more challenges in terms of extracting resources, and so, yes, I can see how they are now planting new concepts of “private” property in the minds of people.

Would you mind giving the title and author of the article, please?

(In Canada, the issue of property rights is a hot potato – Canadians are being told by communist-oriented politicians and certain lawyers and activists that – “all of a sudden” – they now “suddenly” don’t/shouldn’t own their properties – that their properties were stolen from previous generations of people who lived in Canada hundreds of years ago, and that it is the decendants of the people who lived here during those years who own the land. Public buildings (schools, parks, recreation centres) and street names are being changed into a language that no one understands. Those who don’t own property have been made to be resentful of those who do, and so there is a big change in culture underway, with attitudes being shaped about what is private. During the covid operation, people were even promulgating the idea that one’s own body should be deemed public property, hence the idea that one should be forced to be injected with whatever the government wants injected into people, who are basically regarded as animals in the agriculture model. The idea of sacred personal body or sacred space in which to shelter one’s personal private body is being shifted with the materialistic commercialism being pushed, and with the assault on churches, which do offer a space to contemplate the sacredness of one’s own life, and the sacredness of other lives, through the contemplation of the mystery of God.)

[beaver]

I love this! Thank you for posting it!

Made legal in The USA once USMCA went into effect; not that they weren’t already doing it all along. Before that, I believe there were a number of ‘tests’, but this one was special to me, as it made plans more obvious.

[sharick]

@sunnyboy

Would you mind giving the title and author of the article, please?

Whoooops! Sorry folks, I completely forgot to include the link.

Authorship is attributed to Milan Adams. The original article can be found here; I found it here on ZeroHedge.

[sharick]

@sunnyboy

During the covid operation, people were even promulgating the idea that one’s own body should be deemed public property, hence the idea that one should be forced to be injected with whatever the government wants injected into people, who are basically regarded as animals in the agriculture model.

Tokenizing humans just like the trees and plants as described in Dr. Farrell’s recent post.

@sunnyboy

In Canada, the issue of property rights is a hot potato – Canadians are being told by communist-oriented politicians and certain lawyers and activists that – “all of a sudden” – they now “suddenly” don’t/shouldn’t own their properties – that their properties were stolen from previous generations of people who lived in Canada hundreds of years ago, and that it is the decendants of the people who lived here during those years who own the land.

Gradually then suddenly… everywhere. Similar to what @beaver mentions below regarding tests and responses. I recall the water restrictions being imposed in Klamath Falls, Oregon back in the 90’s. It’s for the salmon. It’s for the environment, it’s for the indigenous, the children, etc. Never for humans, anymore (unless it is AI-related of course). Why reinvent the wheel. Twenty-five years later it is helped along with another unmalleable generation in the grave to counter the communist-oriented politicians.

[Scarmoge]

… the discussion in this thread is connected to the discussion in the thread from

It’s a Game, and You are the NPC (Non-Player Character) - this thread originally started by David-pies in Feb of 2023

[sharick]

@beaver

Before that, I believe there were a number of ‘tests’, but this one was special to me, as it made plans more obvious.

For me it was the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa. I was driving into work on 580 southbound very early on Monday morning (Oct 9) listening to news about the fires up north. As the very first moments of dawn cracking on left horizon, I noticed a very low, solo, cylindrically shaped cloud, illuminated white, out the right-side windshield. It was very odd and I am sure the low light enhanced it (and/or revealed it) a bit, but I never saw one like that before or since. I snapped two cell phone pics; both were blurry white blobs.

There were videos online and on TV as the day progressed. Santa Rosa was the first that I recall in which houses, entire neighborhoods, rather, burned with only chimneys left. Hundreds of homes burned to nothing.

I recall this video which posted a week after the fire and I am glad to see it is still online. This was a Berkeley firetruck dispatched to help in Santa Rosa, some 55-miles north. They thought they were going to help fight area grass fires. They had no heads up that neighborhoods were gone and Kmart was fully engulfed! The live audio commentary as well as text added later to the video is so informative.

Mind you, this was nearly four years before I started using the NASA infrared website, so no correlation from any possible satellite-based evidence was gathered to accompany my cloud photos.

So, so many fires followed, to include Paradise.

[beaver]

@sharick

Those fires were, and still are terrible. When old tactics work, why change them? They don’t change them. Burn’em out, Tax’em out, Flood’em out.

As the fires and taxes will keep coming, so will the next big flood. IMO, and I don’t know exactly when, the big flood will be when they open the locks and dams on the upper Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. They’ve stopped the water in the far north to the point there is little water left in parts of these rivers. They want the people who’ve been there for generations OUT. Those who won’t leave, when it’s time, will be flooded out.

Hence, Berkshire Hathaway will have it’s transport system ready to go. However, as a poster on this site said, I paraphrase, ‘The unexpected is not unknown in the path of human affairs’.

Map of the bare bones tracks:
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Now, and they’re not finished yet.

bnsf-network-map.pdf

[sunnyboy]

@sharick

Tokenizing humans just like the trees and plants

Indeed, an underlying spirit inherent within the communist model – and disenfranchised people somehow seem to buy into that trap, where something sacred is deemed (in a collective mindset) as a “token”. When enough people buy into the tokenization of life and property, privacy basically disappears (at least for those whose property, and who themselves, become the “tokens” of others).

Mark T. Mitchell (in an older, well-written article) called the phenomenon “Plutocratic Socialism”:

A plutocratic class, if it is to survive in a democratic age, must placate insecure, propertyless citizens with state-sponsored benefits that provide the illusion of security. This welfare state will, in time, generate explicit calls for socialist policies and programs. Plutocratic Socialism, then, is a system built on a symbiotic relationship between two seemingly opposed classes: plutocrats and socialists. We are now witnessing this in America. Moreover, the newest iteration of socialism today has joined with the regnant social justice movement creating a toxic brew of social, political and economic pathologies – call it Woke Socialism.
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There exists, then, a natural continuum from an ever-expanding welfare state to the abolition of private property. We might call it “the socialist continuum.” Once aggressive welfare policies are implemented (as opposed to a modest and limited social safety net), the sacred idea of property will gradually dissipate. Confiscation and redistribution undermine the status of property and kindle dreams of a world without private property. After all, if property is the most prominent and concrete expression of inequality, and if inequality is seen as synonymous with injustice, one can presumably eliminate inequality – and injustice – by eliminating property.