Slavery, Voluntary of Otherwise

Totalitarianism is the order of the day, for any and all who have a modicum of power.

Businesses can’t just use machines; they need people. So the goal is to crush as much of your humanity as is necessary to keep you bound and still useful. And so the world increasingly pushes toward the factory model, starting in the government schools and going beyond that into the working world. It was true with the Prussian model of education. But currently the fascination is with how this mentality has been expanded upon in China. And that’s where non-stop inescapable surveillance and the social credit system have been spreading through the West in the worlds of governance, schooling, and business. Religion is still allowed, though it must be kept in check, because as Marx said, it is the opiate of the masses. If religion keeps you drugged and still useful, all the better.

As Mickey Rourke’s character, the Russian Ivan Vanko, said in Iron Man 2, “people make problem”. And so the only people they want are those who are less than fully human.