Democratic dictatorship: “We may remain, as we are now, nominally democratic, but be ruled by a technocratic class empowered by greater powers of surveillance than those enjoyed by even the nosiest of dictatorships” spectator.co.uk/article/welcom…
“Climate-change policies could nurture the new autocracy for a generation. As tech oligarchs and the financial establishment implement the Davos notion of a Great Reset, they will force a quick end to fossil fuels.”
“The conscious policy of degrowth as a means of forcibly reducing greenhouse gas emissions will require getting most people out of their cars, and forcing them to travel far less and to live in tiny apartments. Enforcement will be necessarily intrusive as well.”
“Planners in the UK and elsewhere are pushing for family 'carbon budgets.' Add surveillance technology and we end up with something akin to China’s 'social credit' system, in which your right to free movement is subject to government approval.”
“In a world dominated by a few institutions, today’s precariat of short-contract workers, and those who have dropped out of the workforce, could become an economically less useful version of Marx’s proletariat: a permanent underclass requiring aggressive, quasi-military policing”
“Wealth cannot rule on its own. Autocracy needs a proselytising class who can justify the rulers and salve the distressed souls of the lower orders .. a sort of clerisy or intelligentsia, not religious, consists of people from the bureaucracy, academia, and the media industry”
“The lockdowns served as a 'test run' for necessary measures to realise their preferred climate-change policies. In the new schema, the real class enemy is not the excesses of the ultra-rich, or even wasteful spending by government: it’s the consumption patterns of the masses”
“To confront what they see as an existential crisis, much of the media supports the creation of a global technocracy. 'Democracy is the planet’s biggest enemy,' asserted an article in Foreign Policy”
“The tech oligarchs are creating a 'scientific caste system.' There is no good reason that 'a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.' It will condition its subjects from the womb so that they 'grow up to love their servitude' and 'never dream of revolution’
“The fusion of government with large oligopolistic companies, and the technologically-enhanced collection of private information, allow the new autocracies to monitor our lives in ways that Mao, Stalin or Hitler would have envied.”
“A rising tide of money and administrative power defines the rising autocracy. If we as citizens, whatever our political orientation, are not vigilant, our democracy will become an increasingly hollow vessel.” End
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