Today when I read a headline like, “EU parliament chief pledges corruption clampdown”; I read: "Anybody who is still representing the people’s will; your days are numbered. Anybody who isn’t lying, cheating, and stealing the public blind; your days are numbered.
In other words, if your not a consummate liar & crook - you don’t belong.
Anybody honest in our ruling class?
Quite frankly, I want to ask you, “How did you, in God’s name, manage to survive our past purges?”
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Once the parliamentary system is discredited, totalitarianism can take it’s rightful place.
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Any government, w/o the consent of the governed; is not legitimate.
But Napoleon said it best, “Revolution is three meals away”.
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That’s old school, nowadays revolution is no longer necessary to establish totalitarianism.
The Nazis took over without one.
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True.
And you don’t need people anymore, as well.
Revolution may be necessary to overthrow totalitarianism!
The “Three Meals” quote I read as, if slaves go hungry, they are probably not going to keep doing slave labor and will take down the rule of the slavers instead.
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Kinda difficult to revolt when starving and sickly.
…and by you don’t need people; I mean - the algorithms are embedded in governance:
from press 1 for English; to international, national, municipal,
and local government policy decisions being made by AI.
The illusion is that these are choices; when in fact, they are not “real” choices.
The algorithms themselves are being generated by next-generation algorithms;
w/humans being taken out of the governmental decision making process…
all together.
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Right that is true of course, annother strategy is if everyone stops paying taxes at once maybe the government would collapse then, but then there would just be anarchy.
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