What has surfaced and come to fore is the old, 1930's idea
of the "menace of the masses" (Wells, Blooomsbury).
Disregard of the 'mob' and distrust of democracy.
The liberals and city sub-elites have revealed their secret: that they hate
the 'unwashed', and in the name of progress
look forward, in ocean-liner fashion, to a future
dripping with thrusting art-deco lines, the way of Mussolini.
These middling men pretend that they
These middling men pretend that they
are on everyones side, but they're on their own.
thing' which on its top level is closed to the gurning populations of Europe.
Same reason they need to bring in refugees, so that
they 'have to make decisions' under duress,
decisions they don't have to be accountable for, because they've
got the bottomless excuse of 'the poor'. This also
provides a great excuse for the non-termination of austerity
or any other measure for that matter. The same excuses war
provides. They also have it from previous form, that people shall
accept austerity/rationing given the 'right reasons' (WW2 Britain)
and that protestations are merely proof of their subservience (Machiavelli).
and that protestations are merely proof of their subservience (Machiavelli).
The chaos afforded by terrorism is merely more grist for
their mill. In other words, it is against their interests for
terror to ever cease. It was not shocking to hear that the regulations
being discussed at the moment the British referendum results
came in is if domestic robots would have the rights of persons in the future.
(Modern Heretic, John Dunn)
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