Even Bill Clinton Knows It's Over!

Bill Clinton – the examplar of truth in modern America – has proposed the establishment of a government "ministry of truth" – to be run by either the United States government or the United Nations – that would supervise the content of the Internet, requiring individuals and websites to conform to agency factual standards. Such a proposal is consistent with Hillary Clinton’s long-standing interest in establishing a government "gatekeeper" for the Internet; one that would prevent just anyone from putting their opinions out into the world.


Apart from the obvious 1^st Amendment/fascist/1984 Orwellian/marketplace of ideas implications of such an offering – a discussion which, I trust, needs no explication on this website – I am partially encouraged by Clinton’s suggestion. It demonstrates just how desperately and feverishly the political Establishment must go in futilely trying to resist its own demise. Like the erstwhile USSR, the American Empire is in a terminal condition; some of its constituents actively considering secession and/or nullification alternatives to national (and even international) hegemony. It is not surprising, therefore, that Bill would propose a similar state-run system of mind-control with which Soviet officials sought refuge from the irresistible forces of change.


The Internet is the most familiar expression of the decentralized nature of our modern world. Technological innovation has opened up the fourth stage in the "information revolution" that began when human beings invented language. Gutenberg’s subsequent invention – whose technology greatly expanded mankind’s capacities for exchanging ideas and information with one another and, in the process, upset the prevailing political order - was a miniscule advance when compared to the Internet and its derivative technologies.


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