An observation of Caitlin's I agree with far more than what she says here went something like:
"Everybody saw the workers rise up and take over Russia, and for the last century they've been doing their best to prevent workers anywhere else from doing the same thing in other countries."
Unfortunately, they've done a good job. They've done it using propaganda, and they've done it using intimidation when the propaganda doesn't work. I don't like the chances of the workers coming together and rising up again in the US, Canada, or anywhere else, no matter how badly they're mistreated and screwed. I would love to be wrong but, in my usual pessimistic fashion, I'm worried that these countries have made themselves revolution-proof.
"An observation of Caitlin's I agree with far more than what she says here went something like:
Everybody saw the workers rise up and take over Russia, and for the last century they've been doing their best to prevent workers anywhere else from doing the same thing in other countries."
I have a diametrically opposing view, and with that I couldn't possibly disagree more.
The so-called October Revolution was financed with $20.000.000.- in gold from Jacob Schiff at the behest of Rothschild. Trotskiy brought the gold to Petrograd via the Norwegian America Line's D/S "Oslofjord". The rest is, as they say, history.
Then again.....
"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism created the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrator."
- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn -
On the other hand..... The killing of the 6 million people that mattered during the 30's and 40's by Germany is something we hear about constantly. Censorship and falsification of history is nothing new.
They are definitely working on it, with all the diligence one would expect of managers trying to close a window and clinch a new contract. The architecture of the Internet has evolved to separate online social labor from its conditions by encoding the distinction between producer and consumer roles into the infrastructure. For example, under the not entirely false pretext of protecting their customers' computers against exploitation and spam generation, very few residential ISPs pass traffic to a customer's web ports, or from the customer to a non-customer's mail ports. Customers must often pay extra for that privilege, if the ISP is even in a position to offer that privilege to residential subscribers. Or, one must send their traffic through intermediary machines, again subject to the ISP or other party providing them, and subject to the intermediary refusing to carry particular traffic they don't like.
It's a situation, and the task for the(ir) adversary, in this case, dissidents and particularly the technologists and culture hackers among us, is to mitigate or exploit that situation, or some other, in our favor or in their disfavor. There are countless possible strategies, but I don't think we have that many tries left before they are ready to launch the big arrow attacks against unauthorized knowing and inaugurate the Long Night.
An observation of Caitlin's I agree with far more than what she says here went something like:
"Everybody saw the workers rise up and take over Russia, and for the last century they've been doing their best to prevent workers anywhere else from doing the same thing in other countries."
Unfortunately, they've done a good job. They've done it using propaganda, and they've done it using intimidation when the propaganda doesn't work. I don't like the chances of the workers coming together and rising up again in the US, Canada, or anywhere else, no matter how badly they're mistreated and screwed. I would love to be wrong but, in my usual pessimistic fashion, I'm worried that these countries have made themselves revolution-proof.
"An observation of Caitlin's I agree with far more than what she says here went something like:
Everybody saw the workers rise up and take over Russia, and for the last century they've been doing their best to prevent workers anywhere else from doing the same thing in other countries."
I have a diametrically opposing view, and with that I couldn't possibly disagree more.
The so-called October Revolution was financed with $20.000.000.- in gold from Jacob Schiff at the behest of Rothschild. Trotskiy brought the gold to Petrograd via the Norwegian America Line's D/S "Oslofjord". The rest is, as they say, history.
Then again.....
"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism created the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrator."
- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn -
On the other hand..... The killing of the 6 million people that mattered during the 30's and 40's by Germany is something we hear about constantly. Censorship and falsification of history is nothing new.
They are definitely working on it, with all the diligence one would expect of managers trying to close a window and clinch a new contract. The architecture of the Internet has evolved to separate online social labor from its conditions by encoding the distinction between producer and consumer roles into the infrastructure. For example, under the not entirely false pretext of protecting their customers' computers against exploitation and spam generation, very few residential ISPs pass traffic to a customer's web ports, or from the customer to a non-customer's mail ports. Customers must often pay extra for that privilege, if the ISP is even in a position to offer that privilege to residential subscribers. Or, one must send their traffic through intermediary machines, again subject to the ISP or other party providing them, and subject to the intermediary refusing to carry particular traffic they don't like.
It's a situation, and the task for the(ir) adversary, in this case, dissidents and particularly the technologists and culture hackers among us, is to mitigate or exploit that situation, or some other, in our favor or in their disfavor. There are countless possible strategies, but I don't think we have that many tries left before they are ready to launch the big arrow attacks against unauthorized knowing and inaugurate the Long Night.