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P Is for Predator State: The Building Blocks of Tyranny from A to Z
The Rutherford Institute ^ | 08/04/2020 | John W. Whitehead

Posted on 08/05/2020 9:12:15 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Professor Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business

While America continues to fixate on the drama-filled reality show scripted by the powers-that-be, directed from the nation’s capital, and played out in high definition across the country, the American Police State has moved steadily forward.

Nothing has changed.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a convenient, traumatic, devastating distraction.

(Excerpt) Read more at rutherford.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: fascism; johnwhitehead; statism; tyranny; vaccinations

1 posted on 08/05/2020 9:12:15 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Good post! Thx!


2 posted on 08/05/2020 9:32:07 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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