Goering's prescription is like totalitarian Tylenol: it is effective with any sort of concocted crisis or enemy designed to terrify the Capite Censi into giving up yet more pesky liberties and justify ever-greater extractions of wealth by the ruling class.
Wars foreign and domestic, be they waged against people, plants, poverty or politi…
Goering's prescription is like totalitarian Tylenol: it is effective with any sort of concocted crisis or enemy designed to terrify the Capite Censi into giving up yet more pesky liberties and justify ever-greater extractions of wealth by the ruling class.
Wars foreign and domestic, be they waged against people, plants, poverty or political violence; super-scary Existential Climate Crises™, be they descending into another ice age (1970s) or frying in an overheated world. And, of course, global "pandemics" with a 99% recovery rate.
It is all bullshit. All of it.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Goering's prescription is like totalitarian Tylenol: it is effective with any sort of concocted crisis or enemy designed to terrify the Capite Censi into giving up yet more pesky liberties and justify ever-greater extractions of wealth by the ruling class.
Wars foreign and domestic, be they waged against people, plants, poverty or political violence; super-scary Existential Climate Crises™, be they descending into another ice age (1970s) or frying in an overheated world. And, of course, global "pandemics" with a 99% recovery rate.
It is all bullshit. All of it.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
~H. L. Mencken