James Corbett on COVID Authoritarianism and Loving Servitude

The Nature of Modern Authoritarianism

• 💡 Modern authoritarianism is often more insidious than overt force, relying on propaganda to make people believe their servitude is virtuous or beneficial.
• 🎯 The worst kind of tyranny is not enforced but manipulated, convincing individuals they are acting in their own best interest.

COVID-19 and Public Response

• ⚠️ The public response to COVID-19 mandates, censorship, and government overreach revealed a population conditioned to trust authority, even when evidence of misconduct was present.
• 📉 The disproportionate impact on black-owned businesses, with 41% closing permanently, was largely ignored by those focused on other forms of perceived authoritarianism.
• 🧠 Many people may have intuitively understood they were being misled during COVID but found it too difficult to confront due to invested identity in political narratives.

Orwell vs. Huxley: Models of Control

• 📚 James Corbett contrasts George Orwell’s “1984”-style oppression (jack-booted thugs) with Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” model (drugging people with soma).
• 🍔 Today's control relies more on comfort, convenience, and propaganda (like offering cheeseburgers and donuts for vaccines) than on overt force.
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