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it is easy to extrapolate on current events and see a very dystopian result for most of us. By most, I mean those of us who are not among the deadbeat rich. I do discriminate here in that, not all wealthy people fit into the same pattern, just as none of us necessarily fits into a statistic representation called normal.
What demarcates the difference in this Fascist move where state and corporation join is that high-technology offers some very chilling restraints and controls on our lives that we may not want to be subject to; nor do we want future generations to grow-up thinking that their technological chains are normal or good, thanking their masters for treating them like human livestock bred for nothing but exploitation from cradle to grave. Yet, things are shaping up that way and we are hurtling towards a threshold that might represent a point of no return if we do not or cannot reign this disturbing trend in soon.
Though I have wrote snippets here about a warning vision where we find ourselves living in America Incorporated and are governed, (read: owned and controlled) by a Supreme Board of Directors, it does bear repeating and should be considered as a prognostication that warns of what might come from concentrated power and wealth by a handful of veritable sociopaths using increasingly complex and even overwhelming, systematic technology. It is not absurd to imagine a gradual or even sudden attempt to virtually imprison us with an invisible and ubiquitous toolbox of controls and social engineering if we allow it.
We could find ourselves in a new, and clearly defined caste system enforced by technology via chips and databases, constantly monitored and tracked. Some think that this is inevitable and, oddly, welcome the perceived benefits. I think of it as the most dangerous tyranny we have ever encountered, simply because we are aware of who would control it.
So, as we watch bold efforts to dissolve any vestiges of democracy while the government melds and merges with corporate interests, eventually to be absorbed by them, what was public held for the greater social good will be privatized, i.e., owned by vested powers and interests that will not only profit from our needs in these sectors, but will have the power to deny us access in various ways.
Our children could eventually educated, (read: trained) in a schooling system that is owned and controlled by corporations who will then be able to influence this training in order to custom design and mold the workers they want for various levels of corporate monoculture requirements. Our cultures will be drained of any meaning or philosophy that empowers us and replaced with propaganda that manufactures compliance and an in induced consent. The only real education will continue to be given will exist only for the uppermost castes who will have full control over our country and, eventually, the entire world. This will also assure them of access to the dwindling resources we now face since consumers will be more like regulated cattle who will be thankful for their rationed access to goods and services.
There is so much more to this vision, but you can count on what, at first, will look like a growing police state and the increased utilization of pharmaceuticals to condition and enforce a transition to what will become a new normal after the media, think tanks, et all, have finished conditioning the captive masses.
I'm sure you can fill in the blanks across-the-board on how this Brave New World might be as it simulates reality more and more and exchanges what is merely real to us with the hyperreal. Television and other entertainments are already performing that function to various degrees.
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