Tim May said: >Yes, I understand this is all fiction. Well, some of the scripts are >based on actual events, including coerced confessions, warrantless >searches, "sneak and peek" wiretaps, concentration camps in Cuba, etc. >That so many of these popular programs have themes as I've described >tells us what to expect. > >The statism meme is growing under hothouse conditions. .......................
Years ago I asked a group of Libertarians at a meeting what they would do if a particular politican, who was then running for President, won and turned everything into a bona-fide, outright statist state like Russia was at the time. They couldn't adequately answer my question; they couldn't come up with any ideas of how to deal with it, what they would do if they suddenly were faced with having to live with it. Maybe they were just being deliberately obtuse with me. But I was quite serious regarding the need to imagine being in such a situation, surrounded by ideologies and strictures of the kind which suffocate and prevent advancement, which don't recognize any need to respect individuals, and calculating what one could/would do under those circumstances. I saw a segment on TV the other day about North Korea, where a scholar was stating that the reason all those people don't rise up and protest their ill-treatment, is that they have all been brain-washed from childhood to worship their demented leader as a hero, their savior. It's incredible to believe that there would be any bright, intelligent people left there who could think about physics and science. It is these "memes" which acclimate, which get people used to these ideas of tolerating lower standards of living, which really are more frightening than the threats from politicans. If they do become accepted without conscious understanding of what could be wrong, if the majority feel no discomfort living under them, then this presents a greater - a huge - obstacle and danger not easily overcome. A sad, disturbing prospect to contemplate. Someone on another list remarked that it might become necessary for those in Europe to do some internet-type rescuing of the American people. Hmmmm. .. Blanc
