An interesting concept: Devolution

That is, the opposite of centralized control, e.g., rule from Washington DC, the feds, and those puppet masters of the visible "leaders".

Think of the heads of local communities really answerable to the "folk" in an old fashioned Town Hall fashion.

Another thought:

It's true most people pay attention to just those matters that affect them directly: the price of gasoline to fill the tank of their vehicle, the tab they must pay to exit the grocery store with food.

So long as daily life rolls along relatively smoothly, the far away masters are left to do as they like. MSM broadcasts the approved "party line". Dissenters are censored or silenced.

The masses must be SHOWN the corruption, not simply TOLD about it.

There is still common decency. There is still a reaction of horror at revelations of abuse, cheating and all the other evils of this world.

It's a rough way to wake up, but it seems a bucket of cold water in the face is required to get the drunk to sober up and become useful!

FMcK
10 March 2021

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/devolution

Definition of devolution

1: transference (as of rights, powers, property, or responsibility) to another

especially : the surrender of powers to local authorities by a central government

2: retrograde (see RETROGRADE entry 1 sense 2) evolution : DEGENERATION

Communist Tactics to Force Self-Censorship Sweeping America

By Petr Svab
March 9, 2021
Updated: March 9, 2021

Vague Rules

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the world’s most notorious censor of free speech, has for decades used the method of making its policies intentionally vague. During its past political campaigns, for example, the central leadership would issue a decree that “rightists” and “counterrevolutionaries” were to be punished. The next lower rung of Party officials wouldn’t be told what exactly makes one a “rightist” or a “counterrevolutionary” and perhaps not even what the punishment should be. No official, however, would want to be seen as too lenient—that would carry the risk of being labeled oneself. As such, each successive level of bureaucracy would intensify its interpretation of the policy, leading to ever more extreme results. In some periods, the hysteria went far beyond self-censorship, as even refraining from political speech wasn’t enough.

https://m.theepochtimes.com/communist-tactics-to-force-self-censorship-sweep-america_3724784.html

Franz Kafka was onto the top trends of today.

The Bureaucracy of the Absurd - Law & Liberty

BOOK REVIEW
MAY 22, 2020
Henry T. Edmondson III

Robert Menasse’s The Capital opens up a new genre that might be called “Novels About the European Commission.” Some wit will protest: “But the European Union has been producing fiction for decades!” Be that as it may, if the category is widened to “Novels About Bureaucracy,” then The Capital joins a venerable genre indeed, including, but by no means limited to, The Castle and The Trial by Kafka, 1984 by Orwell, Brave New World by Huxley, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Organization Man by William Whyte, and The Bureaucrats by Balzac. More recent possibilities include The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee (2004), and (in English translation) The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (2001).

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-bureaucracy-of-the-absurd/

The Capital: A Novel: Menasse, Robert, Bulloch, Jamie: 9781631495717: Amazon.com: Books

"[A] stinging office satire… A Joseph Heller-like funhouse of bureaucratic cul-de-sacs, interdepartmental squabbling, nonsensical regulations and embarrassing acronyms… Jamie Bulloch provides the excellent translation."
- Sam Sachs, Wall Street Journal

https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Novel-Robert-Menasse/dp/1631495712/

Bureaucracy: Definition, Examples, Pros and Cons

By Robert Longley
Updated February 03, 2021

Considered the architect of modern sociology, German sociologist Max Weber recommended bureaucracy as the best way for large organizations to maintain order and maximize efficiency. In his 1922 book “Economy and Society,” Weber argued that bureaucracy’s hierarchal structure and consistent processes represented the ideal way to organize all human activity. Weber also defined the essential characteristics of modern bureaucracy as follows:

A hierarchical chain of command in which the top bureaucrat has ultimate authority.

A distinct division of labor with each worker doing a specific job.

A clearly defined and understood set of organizational goals.

A clearly-written set of formal rules, which all employees agree to follow.

Job performance is judged by worker productivity.

Promotion is merit-based.

Weber warned that, if not properly controlled, bureaucracy could threaten individual freedom, locking people in a rules-based “iron cage” of control.

Parkinson’s Law is the semi-satirical adage that all “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” Often applied to the expansion of an organization’s bureaucracy, the “law” is based on chemistry’s Ideal Gas Law, which states that gas will expand to fill the volume available.

https://www.thoughtco.com/bureaucracy-definition-examples-pros-cons-4580229

Goldfish just want to be free

Bureaucracy has been with us for a long, long time.

Cuneiform, the first personal note taking "tablet"

Prophecy - America Will Shut Down 3-9-2021 Lois Vogel-Sharp - YouTube

Due to a cyber attack by China

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B4O4kS-pbjA

The Real Reasons Why Millions Of Americans Will Defy Covid Mandates And Vaccines - Alt-Market.us

March 11, 2021
Brandon Smith

The basic establishment narrative is this: “Covid is an existential threat to the public, therefore, we are justified in taking away people’s freedoms, their economy and their privacy. It is for the “greater good of the greater number”. Vaccination is infallible and cannot be questioned. The “experts” are infallible and cannot be questioned. It’s not your body and it is not your choice. Your body is property of the government and if you do not voluntarily take injections of whatever experimental cocktail we give you, then we will continue to erode your freedoms until you give in and submit. Then, once you have submitted, your freedoms will still never be given back.”

It’s not really a persuasive argument for lot of people.
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The medical passport system is the personification of false incentive. The media presents the notion that no one will be “forced” to take the vaccines; but what they don’t mention is that without the vaccine they will not get a medical passport, and without a medical passport they will be cut off from the normal economy. You can be vax free, but you will be punished through poverty and zero access until you give in.

https://alt-market.us/the-real-reasons-why-millions-of-americans-will-defy-covid-mandates-and-vaccines/

Planetary Nightmare! When Lockdowns, Green Agenda, Transhumanism and Surveillance State Merge | aminutetomidnite

Posted on March 7, 2021 
by Tony Koretz

https://aminutetomidnite.com/2021/03/07/planetary-nightmare-when-lockdowns-green-agenda-transhumanism-and-surveillance-state-merge/

No Hyperbole! The Zombie Threat Is Very Real!!! | The Common Sense Show

Submitted by Dave Hodges
Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 15:55

Now the so-called plagues (most man-made) have been unleashed against us). Roll up your sleeve and take your shot of eventual DNA changing death.

As I will reveal in Part Two, there are the short-term threats from the vaccines and there are the long-term (a condition I am going to refer to today as “zombieism”. Medically, you would refer to this medical condition as Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease.

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/agenda-21-conspiracy-economics/no-hyperbole-zombie-threat-very-real

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The Dimming, Full Length Climate Engineering Documentary

Published 10 March 2021

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All are needed in the critical battle to wake populations to what is coming, we must make every day count. Share credible data from a credible source, make your voice heard. Awareness raising efforts can be carried out from your own home computer.
Dane Wigington

https://www.brighteon.com/7a6c2b2e-05da-4bdb-8e65-b1c1daf5f744

Women in COMBAT units:

1) Not vital to America’s national security

2) Diminishes unit readiness

3) Has no basis in real-world combat outcomes

4) Degrades male performance in combat

5) Is a political gain with a national security expense

I would agree. The natural impulse of normal males is to protect women and children. A dangerous distraction in battle. Women have served in harm's way for a long time. My own mother was an Army nurse during WW2. Hospital units are often targeted. Still, women should be on the front lines only as a last resort. To train both men and women as they do in Israel is fine. That is from a defensive position.

You can be assured that normal women can fight literally tooth and nail with the ferocity of a she-bear to protect the family.

Never underestimate the righteous power to defend.

FMcK
11 March 2021

2 Samuel 17:8

And Hushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are brave men, and they are enraged and fierce, like a bear deprived of her cubs in the field.

The Rutherford Institute :: The Government’s War on Free Speech: Protest Laws Undermine the First Amendment | By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead |

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
March 09, 2021

Yet the unspoken freedom enshrined in the First Amendment is the right to think freely and openly debate issues without being muzzled or treated like a criminal.

In other words, if we no longer have the right to voice concerns about COVID-19 mandates, if we no longer have the right to tell a Census Worker to get off our property, if we no longer have the right to tell a police officer to get a search warrant before they dare to walk through our door, if we no longer have the right to stand in front of the Supreme Court wearing a protest sign or approach an elected representative to share our views, if we no longer have the right to protest unjust laws or government policies by voicing our opinions in public or on social media or before a legislative body—no matter how politically incorrect or socially unacceptable those views might be—then we do not have free speech.

What we have instead is regulated, controlled speech, and that’s what those who founded America called tyranny.

On paper, we may be technically free.

In reality, however, we are only as free as a government official may allow.

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_governments_war_on_free_speech_protest_laws_undermine_the_first_amendment

"Don't Go Down The Rabbit Hole!" — Dismantling The NY Times' Pathetic Propaganda

Gavin Nascimento
March 7, 2021

In short, the New York Times and their “expert” are telling us that instead of investigating the claims of someone that challenges the status quo and our understanding and perception of reality, we should instead avoid them and go directly to the authorities to tell us what to think.

There is an expression that “rejecting something you know nothing about is the highest form of ignorance,” and that’s basically what the New York Times and their “digital literacy expert” are encouraging their followers to do. “Resist the lure of Rabbit Holes” and go to Google, where in just “15 seconds”, you can get the Truth from Wikipedia — It’s genuinely shocking to read this.
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Frustrated Establishment Media No Longer Has a Monopoly on Information 

Although this New York Time’s article is revolting, it’s also quite insightful as to how desperate some establishment media outlets have become in their efforts to control the narrative, which has grown more and more frivolous with the introduction of the internet where people such as myself can use verifiable evidence to expose how hypocritical and deceptive they are.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/dont-go-down-the-rabbit-hole-ny-times-decries-critical-thinking-tells-us-to-trust-google-instead/

"Don't Go Down The Rabbit Hole!" — Dismantling The NY Times' Pathetic Propaganda - YouTube

Gavin Nascimento
Published on Feb 27, 2021

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YnXDiANvQ-I

The NY Times opinion piece under discussion:

Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole

Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.

By Charlie Warzel
Feb. 18, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/fake-news-media-attention.html?auth=-google1tap