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Mark Wauck • Meaning In History • October 08, 2024 | Received 23:06 Lisbon Time

That America was founded—at least in concept—as a republic in which the people were supposed to take a primary role in choosing their representatives. Without getting into a dispute over when that concept devolved into the reality that the people choose the rulers from a slate of candidates that is selected by a corrupt party system that represents the ruling class. Without getting into an historical argument about how this transformation occurred over time, I think we can agree that this is, in the big scheme of things, where we are. There have been stirrings of unrest—2016 was an existential scare to the ruling class—but the unrest, widespread though it may be, is largely inchoate. Culturally speaking, America is a libertarian nation, for the most part. Which means it believes, as a cultural matter, in little to nothing. The result is a lack of strong, conviction based, opposition to the agenda of the ruling class.

A key to the success of the ruling class has been control over the information system, and the breakdown in the ruling class monopoly over information flow—due to the internet—has been the biggest factor in the spread of unrest. That unrest has not yet have reached a unifying conceptual focus, probably due to the reluctance of average Americans to reexamine their comfortable lack of certainties. The shift to embracing certainties runs against the grain. However, signs of such a shift—again, think 2016, and Trump running again—has the ruling class up in arms. Unlike the subject class, the ruling class is in no doubt, has no trouble focusing on the key problem—it’s the free flow of information that is the threat to “total control”, as no less an authority on “total control” than Hillary recently stated. Note that in this gone-viral quote, when Hillary says “they” she means “we”—and you ain’t “us”:

“Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don’t moderate and monitor the content we lose total control and it’s not just the social and psychological effects it’s real harm, it’s child porn and threats of violence, things that are terribly dangerous.”

It’s the same schtick Hillary was using way back in the Nineties—it’s about the children, it takes a village, etc. No. It’s about exactly what she said: total control—over the subject population. And that total control is necessary to effect what Barry postulated as the goal of the ruling class: a fundamental transformation. It’s about the elimination of the bitter clingers and the total transformation of the subject population into automatons. The agenda really is that big and, yes, it really is global. The Covid Hoax, the Russia Hoax, the Trans Hoax, the Climate Hoax, DEI, the J6 Hoax, etc.—each hoax is part of the push to get the subject population back into the box of believing anything they’re told to believe.

Alastair Crooke enunciated that idea just this week, although with his usual focus heavily on geopolitics. Of course, when Kerry says “disinformation” he means “information” that we don’t want you to have, which limits our “total control”:

John Kerry, just last week at the World Economic Forum, so clearly blurting out the truth: “Our First Amendment stands as a major block to our ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence”.

Translated: Governing is all about narrative control. Kerry articulates the ‘International Order’s’ solution to the unwelcome phenomenon of an uncontrolled populism and of a potential leader who speaks for the people: Simply, ‘freedom to speak’ is unacceptable to the prescriptions agreed by the ‘inter-agency’ – the institutionalised distillation of the ‘International Order’.

Eric Weinstein calls this The Unburdening: The first Amendment; gender; merit; sovereignty; privacy; ethics; investigative journalism; borders; freedom … the Constitution? Gone?

Self designated free speech crusader Jonathan Turley has written about the anti-free speech movement of the ruling class. As usual, his article makes useful, intelligent points, but I’ll simply take issue with one snippet:

“We Lose Total Control”: Clinton Continues Her Censorship Campaign on CNN 
the challenge for anti-free speech champions like Clinton is that it is not easy to convince a free people to give up their freedom.

The interesting question here is, of course: To what extent do  …  …  … 

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