The end of the end, so to speak, was in 1994. That was the year the
Internet gained widespread public knowledge and use. Governments have
always thrived by controlling education of the young, controlling the
currency and controlling information. In other words: indoctrination,
inflation, misinformation, and propaganda. The governed vastly outnumber
the governors so force was never enough to keep control. Sure you could
make an example out of a couple of the slaves by using violence on
them. But to efficiently control a bunch of humans and use them as tax
cows, you have to convince them that they are better off being tax cows.
After the Internet, it became impossible for the governed not to find
out the truth of their condition.
I understand if when I say that government has lost the war, you
might think I'm crazy. After all, things look pretty bleak. Yes, the
government is out of control in the US and in many other countries. But
their actions are more like death throes. Like a big, mortally wounded
beast, the state is lashing out with the strength and ferocity that
comes from panic. It senses death approaching. And that may make it
temporarily more dangerous. But the end is in sight. All their actions
are actually reactions to the fact that they're losing. They are trying
to close the doors, control the flow of information and restrict the
flow of capital, but people are finding ways around everything
(especially people like us and the people who read publications like
this).
The blatantly obvious and rather pathetic attempts at information control keep coming. Like the latest in a long string of executive orders signed by President Obama just
before the recent State of the Union address. The order will expand the
power of the Department of Homeland Security to "share" information
with private industry. In other words, it will be easier for the
government to gather information about you from the electronic media you
use. And of course, there is the much-talked about "internet kill
switch" that Obama and his fellow heads of state are dying to make a
reality.
Even if the various states all over the world manage to find a way to
shut off the Internet, they'll find out who really won if they do shut
the internet down. The entire world is online now. And they all love it.
Imagine if we had no email, no Facebook, no Craigslist, and that our
smartphones just became plain cell phones again... I make no
exaggeration when I say that there would be far more people revolting
over the loss of these things than over the loss of their right to own
firearms. Plus much of the world commerce is done through the internet
now. The economic loss at this point would be staggering. You wonder if
governments are really and truly that willing to cripple the economies
they parasitize in order to maintain their last bits of control.
