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A Few Thoughts on Our Step-by-Step Subjugation

The appearance of the touch screen marks a milestone in the Age of the New Subjugation, A.K.A. the Digital Age, where you let your fingers do the walking and you shut your mind, close your mouth and comply. Having a control button between us and the screen somehow affirmed that we are not the machine and the machine R NOT us.

In this relatively new world in which all communication must pass through a filter, not simply a telephone wire with an operator at one end, and a secretary or receptionist (or the person you wished to reach) at the other, and then along to an AI menu of humiliation, we salve our headaches with cannabis, wine, pharmaceuticals. We must, we will, comply.

At every level nearly every human action (let me count the ways), meets restrictions, rules, impediments requiring the patience of a saint. Whether driving:

Or flying, packed into a tiny space:

Or mailing a letter in the new mailboxes that have a narrow slit at the top and sport a QR code:

The white cones are being used in Chicago not simply to protect pedestrians, as might be argued for this picture, but they are also being used to cordon off entire blocks so that cars may no longer, by the grace of God and your aldermen and city leaders, park:

You can take your life in your hands simply trying to enter and exit the driver’s seat of your car:

So, I have presented a few examples, and both you and I can think of countless more. And, like the now-common broadcasting of vaccine commercials in pharmacies and grocery stores (that have pharmacies), we must endure this unsettling new form of psychological pressure and inducement.