I’m going to try to compound a collection of information that I’ve spontaneously generated. To start off, I’m going to identify the implication made in Michael Rectenwald’s entitling of The Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom, in the subtitle. When he says simulation of freedom, what does he mean? How extensive is this gulag? And what is its potential? Secondly, I’m going to refer to The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude — in which there is identification with the single tyrant, who would only have to be deprived of the public’s continued funding and resources. Thirdly I’m going to make apparent the implications of Mr. Rectenwald’s reference to Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man, in Springtime for Snowflakes, in which he identifies capitalist societies as being totalitarian in their inclination to determine, and satisfy needs, making for a willing public. This all seems in the same vein to me. When you tie them all up together, and observe the psychiatric system amongst it, you have a perfect storm to both maintain control of the public and satisfy any outlying curiosity.
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