Indeed.
What a read, Travis. I’m left wondering that there is someone else either as paranoid as me, or as focused as me? When will my devices be used to spy on me? When will I get the “visit” that Roberts got or Hastings got? Is anyone who writes “anonymously” against their monstrous plan a target?
Is there a private place left where high tech can’t eavesdrop?
Undoubtedly, the next step after governments begin censoring the internet will be the “burning of the books”. Make sure your printed books are on acid-free paper, Travis, because they must outlast the dark ages coming. Sorry to agree with your predictions. I’ve been tracking the steps since 1976 when I asked Robert Bleiberg, editor of Barron’s, a pessimist, “how long do we have”? and he replied, “a decade”(!) How fortunate I’ve had a full life. I feel sorry for our children. But not for you or me. We’ve experienced American freedom, the glittering light at the end of the Enlightenment, the gift that began with Aristotle and Aquinas and was codified by Locke via the moral giants of the American Revolution.