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Dean Fraser's avatar

IIRC, it’s known as the totalitarian tiptoe. Keeping the useless eaters in check. I’ve read a couple of Ike books; funny in parts, entertaining, incisive. Then inevitably you have to put your crash helmet on and buckle up: for the labyrinth of demons; the blood drinking lizards and the polyester shell suited zombies, etc. etc… god bless his little cotton socks..

But if we really think about it: it’s the same old ‘establishment’ story. About censorship, control, crop spraying, and genetically modified craft bread !?! ..publishing houses; BBC celebrities, music bizz, Tv success for certain high profile Actors. Everything really is, moderated, carefully calibrated, allowed; if it serves a purpose. Undoubtedly, to crush and restrain, the average tax paying Joe.

In fact - one begins to wonder if we ever had anything remotely resembling free will. Or, Access to the ‘Truth’. Or the ability to try and understand: Pet Sounds, by the Beach Boys..?!?

All the big nasty million dollar corporations (deffo back in the last century or two) simply helped themselves to anything they desired: Fed Reserve; Fiat currency, Petro-chemical-pharmaceutical; allopathic germ theory; Viruses (never been proven to exist).

Absconding with billions, of tax payers money - by pretending to fly to the moon. Or crashing a plane (?) into the twin towers and the Pentagon(?) and, oddly enough: losing 2.3 trillion in the process.(9/11) . It’s a circus of deprivation for (ours) truly.

And, there probably hasn’t been a time, since the powers that shouldn’t be, weren’t fiddling with history: evolution, medical science(?).. or various religious psy-ops. Global warming, anyone .?? Palantir technologies. Christ, it makes Cambridge analytica look like a provincial kindergarten, from back in the day.

We’ve been exploited and gaslit since time immemorial. I wonder if they’ve simply rearranged the furniture in Plato’s cave, and put in a bigger screen.. ??

Barry Norman used to do the Film review series on bbc, between the mid seventies and nineties. And the theme tune was:

“I wish I knew how it would feel to be Free”. (???)

By the Billy Taylor Trio.

(Nina Simone did a vocal cover version,too.)!!

So… don’t let the bastards grind you down..

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Debbie Lerman's avatar

Thanks Miri - your experience and analysis correlate w the experiences of many Substack writers I know, including myself. Rumble seems to be a similar online dissident ghetto, owned by the same broligarchy, intended to corral us into a corner and then control our reach and ability to monetize our content.

My question is this: can a decentralized network be created where we can publish content and monetize it without any owners controlling it? This is an existential question and I don’t know if any brilliant tech nerds are working on it, since it would not lead to any lucrative IPOs etc. I’m also too tech ignorant to know if it’s even possible. If not, we might have to go back to the times of printing and distributing subversive pamphlets in the physical world!

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