there is a bunch of kids here who spend all their time denouncing
government as communist or democrats as communist… but they
completely miss the already existing dictatorship…
the economic dictatorship that already is here and has been here for
decades…
everything you complain about the government taking away your rights is
already being done by corporations…
for example, your concern for privacy… but note that in our current
economic totalitarian state, we have no privacy… talk about, say,
a vacation in Ireland next to your phone and within minutes,
notices will pop up on your phone about Irish vacations… your phone is being
monitor by big corporations and then they will send you all kinds of crap over
the phone…or, say, I look up shoes on Amazon, within moments, all kinds
of shoes ads will pop up, phone or on the computer… this intrusion isn’t government,
but it is the corporate dictatorship that you should be focused on…
I had a conversation about Africa with my wife, within two minutes,
several ads for Africa pop up on my phone and computer… we weren’t even
near our computer and about 4 feet from our phone and bam… ads galore
about Africa… we have a Alexa device and quite clearly they are monitoring it…
worry all about big and intrusive government, but the real worry is big business…
for example, take buying a car… there are only 5 car makers in the world…
there isn’t free choice in what you buy… as for the media, there are only
6 media corporations in the U.S… and they control 95% of ALL media in America…
take Breakfast cereal, there are only 4 makers of cereal in America… you think
you have some economic choice but in reality you don’t… we already have
a dictatorship state, but it isn’t government, it is big business… a economic
dictatorship and that is far worse then any government dictatorship…
because we have no control over big business…
if you want to be afraid, I would be far, far, far less afraid of
government then I am afraid of Big business because we cannot
get control over big business…whereas we can and quite often have,
gotten control over the government…
whereas government can be used to control big business, in fact,
big government might be the only way to get control over big business…
so pick your poison… big government which is no where near the danger
of big business, your other choice…
big business or big government?
Kropotkin