Veteran US journalist, John Rappaport, believes that we are now living in phase one of a lockdown civilisation. Phase two will see a “new planetary system of command and control” to deal with future pandemics - as well people. “Human behavior must be modified”. This modification will be in line with the attitude of the technocrats, who view life as a “system”. People are just “cogs in a machine” to them.

There will be wall to wall surveillance, and a universal guaranteed income for the plebs who are obedient to state directives. Nano devices could be implanted in people for tracking purposes. Shades of China’s social credit system!

Strong democracies should be able to resist this sort of dictatorship, people will say. But with the attitudes of the young, certainly, and most of their parents who never taught or bothered to talk to them about freedom, politics, and how democracy was earned, democracy might not be strong enough to resist.

Currently, the UK is stampeding into full-blown technocratic tyranny and dystopia. Total lockdowns are being imposed, but the China virus continues to spread despite the lockdowns. The governments blames the population for not being obedient enough to their diktats, demanding that everyone act as though they already had China virus.

In, America, people are fleeing the lockdown areas for the freedoms of South Dakota, South Carolina and Oregon. Big Tech is censoring dissent; the MSM is blaming the China virus for everything from drug addiction and alcoholism to female unemployment and murder, when it is the lockdowns that are causing these problems.

Primal fear rules. People think that everyone else is trying to infect them, and they put up with the attacks on their rights in the belief that it is for their own good.

Interesting times ttbn-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okun's_law

"for every 1% increase in the unemployment rate, a country's GDP will be roughly an additional 2% lower than its potential GDP"

Okun's Law in 1962 linked economic growth with labour but in 2021 due to massive consumer based production systems is labour really still coupled to production. Many believe that the systems and processes are now more important than the people. The peoples only role in the current system is as impotent consumers.

It's a reminder of what the Unibomber said- technology enslaves in the name of freedom- not that he has a monopoly on truth.

A solution perhaps is to become more self sufficient.

Freedom is not free

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/21/freedom-is-not-free-it-always-comes-with-a-cost/

http://www.thememorialdaytribute.com/memorial-day-poems/freedom-is-not-free.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_isn't_free

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/wahitchcock.htm

The problem is the powerful don't need the peoples brains- but they need their consumption- this perhaps makes the old system obselete- but what should the new system be. I can say one thing- it's not communism or socialism or globalism. For me it's a return to a traditional principles that our grandparents knew.

There are powerful people that have a vested interest in globalism.

Dear CM,

You write;"I can say one thing- it's not communism or socialism or globalism."

43% of farm income in the US this year came in the form of subsidies making it very hard for Australian farmers to compete.

Happy for you to be against globalists but don't be exposing free market ideas when to survive in that kind of world government handouts become the norm and that is socialism writ large.

I recall several private businesses failing in remote communities because the local Councils were so heavily backed by Govt. The private sector could simply not compete !

Steele Redux said-

Dear CM, You write;"I can say one thing- it's not communism or socialism or globalism." 43% of farm income in the US this year came in the form of subsidies making it very hard for Australian farmers to compete. Happy for you to be against globalists but don't be exposing free market ideas when to survive in that kind of world government handouts become the norm and that is socialism writ large.

Answer-

Yes free markets are a tool in the toolbox- but it needs to be used in the right context- I am espousing a more traditional approach over time- society is a hierarchy- there are natural features of the hierarchy that have developed over tens of millions of years of natural selection/ animal group behavior/ and more recently human communities - in the last one hundred years universalism, globalism, communism, capitalism believe in a borderless world where everyone are interchangeable parts in a global Taylorism machine without culture or colour. Globalism believes in top down control- traditional cultures were created from the bottom up- this is not socialism- it is family.

Why does Australia need to grow farm produce for the US market when it doesn't want it- they have a right to their own sovereignty. We can produce things for those that want it or preserve it as long term food supplies. We need to produce things that people need. I will be interested to hear what the Aussie farmers have to say.

Many use a macro economic approach to solve micro economic issues- an excavator for a pot plant.

Google has removed an app - reportedly popular with conservatives - from the Google Play store. The app, 'Parler', allows its users to exercise freedom of speech. Big Tech gets bolder all the time knowing that there isn't a politician alive, now that Trump has gone, with the guts to call them out. President Biden will be a mere lackey to Big Tech.