We are not familiar with totalitarianism. More specifically, with the slow removal of rights that happen along the path towards its full, horrific expression. We know about the Nazi medical experiments, concentration camps and slaughter… but not much about how the preceding years enabled them. So we could be forgiven for not noticing or appreciating…Continue readingThe Learning Curve
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It sounds like Canada might be preparing to go all China on the massive – and peaceful – truckers Freedom Convoy in Ottawa. Talk is spreading of cell phone blackouts, riot police numbers increasing and processing centres being prepared while politicians refuse to talk, declare a state of emergency and use increasingly loaded terms –…Continue readingChinada?
During the Covid response it has amazed me to witness otherwise ‘good’ people going along with – even relishing the lockdowns, masks, censorship, suppression of treatments, coerced injections, risking children to save adults, piling ludicrous debt onto future generations, creating a privileged and an ostracised class of citizen, human rights violations… and much more. Intuitively,…Continue readingGood people can do awful things.
In this thorough overview Patrick Wood warns about ‘mass formation’ and the totalitarian world it is enabling and creating. One of the early warning signs that we are living within totalitarianism is the stigmatising of some people as a danger to society and less than human. Just as happened in 1930s Germany. Worryingly, some German…Continue readingHuman today. Not Human Tomorrow.