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Musk’s purchase of Twitter is an Atlas-Shrugged-level event, afforded by his fantastic wealth. What, however, would happen if nobody had the kind of money it took? How long and in what direction the Party-media complex would guide the public opinion and the outcome of societal game-changers like elections?
The answer is obvious. As I’ve written some time ago, without knowing the details that have recently surfaced from Twitter but knowing enough to make an educated guess, the progressives have finally decided to get serious about seizing total power. For that, Lenin’s dictum about the need to capture communication means is always valid. That’s what Bolsheviks did in Russia for their power grab to succeed, then quashing freedom of speech, the condition to do away with all the other freedoms. That’s what progressives are doing in the US. Never mind that in Russia it was done with the help of bayonets and the all-powerful state whereas in the civilized US it’s been private media platforms happily merging with the secret police apparatus. The result is the same.
Yes, the same free enterprise system in the US allows for both that merger and for an occasional reversal of the trend, as happened with Twitter. I would thus suggest the progressives, the US version of totalitarians, not to despair, and the conservatives not to jump with joy. Musks are few and far between, but the organized prol… progressives, in lockstep that tolerates no dissent, will ensure that the state-thoughtpolice-media cartel will eventually crash what remains of the American utopia. Their individualist and freedom-loving ideological enemies, having no comparable rigid ideological spine, simply can’t amass an adequate response, relying on Reardens and Galts who largely remain a fiction. The utopia has already lasted far beyond utopias’ usual lifespan. We are now getting into a Randian dystopia.
The United States has not yet quite tried its own variety of totalitarianism. Apparently, the invariably nasty experience of others won’t be enough to keep us from that. Obama’s October 2008 promise to fundamentally transform the country will be kept.
