Posted on 11/12/2025 4:55:25 AM PST by MtnClimber
Universal Basic Income is a snare and a delusion that cedes all human liberty to the government.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. – George Orwell
George Orwell’s telescreen is no longer “suspend your disbelief”-level fiction. And the foot meting out the punishment may soon be the state’s, delivering your Universal Basic Income in UBI Dollars (UBIDs).
I have recently written about AI and UBI, positing that AI will lead to sufficient disruption to make UBI a near-certainty. In this essay, I combine these threads in relation to a current political stance.
Utopian visions—from Thomas More’s Utopia to Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward—imagined harmonious, egalitarian societies where technology and policy eradicated want and conflict. These works inspired reforms, but their blueprints for perfectibility ignored the complexity of human behavior and power. Even Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, a rare example of an anarchist utopia, ultimately reveals idealism crumbling under the weight of institutional inertia and cultural drift.
By contrast, dystopian literature has proven uncannily prescient.
George Orwell’s 1984 anticipated mass surveillance and digital censorship. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World foresaw a society numbed by engineered distractions—a forebear to today’s attention-addiction economy. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 each predicted elements of behavioral control and technological regression that now feel/are eerily present.
Why have dystopias proven more accurate? Because utopian visions reflect a winsome but naïve faith in rational design and reasonableness. Dystopias, however, extrapolate from fears—surveillance, stratification, dehumanization—into plausible futures that transition seamlessly into extant presents. Fear is a real motivator.
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The cameras that see everything will help the government punish me when I take a mis-step. They will see, and they will stomp me.
Oddly enough, the cameras that see everything always malfunction when the government does funny stuff. No one sees, No one can prove anything, and the government gets away with everything.
Flock/”ALPR” (”Automated License Plate Reader”) nationwide camera map:
Recent case of rights abuse by police using ALPR/Flock cameras in CO:
https://youtu.be/37fp2n6p19Q?si=Pux1WNYsWptappqx
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How much money would the government save if it stopped spying on everyone ?
Just a temporary hold on CBDC until he helps them set up all the AI surveillance systems first. Then CBDC will be “needed” to stop “terrorists and Illegal aliens”. Trump is all in with helping set all this up for the mass AI surveillance of the people right now.
Trump signs 3 executive orders to advance AI
July 23, 2025
President Donald Trump signed three new executive orders on Wednesday evening, praising the current U.S. artificial intelligence landscape while pledging to leverage federal power to make the country an “AI export powerhouse.” (“AI surveillance powerhouse.”)
Taken together, the three executive orders — signed just after the release of the administration’s National AI Action Plan — will streamline federal permitting for energy infrastructure to handle AI application computing needs; direct leadership at the Department of Commerce and the Department of State to promote the U.S.-made AI tech stack abroad; and remove biased or “woke” AI technologies from the government.
National AI Action Plan
“How much money would the government save if it stopped spying on everyone ?”
They are spending dollars to pick up pennies in lost taxes.
The government is no longer fueled by money. It’s fueled by imaginary money conjured out of thin air and we call it debt. We spend 2 trillion of this imaginary money every year. We live a Cadillac life on a Pinto economy. As we look through history we know this ends. There’s a hard rain gonna fall.
The cameras that see everything will help the government punish me when I take a mis-step. They will see, and they will stomp me.
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And if the Communists/Democrats take control of the Congress and White House, they’ll concentrate on ruining/destroying Conservatives. Bet On It!
I have a libertarian idea that can beat that loop. Been working on expositing it for a decade. Why I can't seem to get any interest from the GOP has vexed me. I guess it's because it demands a physical commitment to grasp.
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