Before I explain how wonderful the COVID-19 era is, and is going to be, for us and for liberty, I must give a nod to the very real concerns about agriculturalization of human beings by the state. The new American project seems to be about converting the amber waves of Republican grain into one giant CAFO, complete with centrally controlled feeding, mandated meds, and plenty of one-way alleys and head-gates.
We are not all drinking Brawndo, not yet. While the state prefers that we be sheep, we should approach the government herd like a well-trained border collie, from rear vantage point, with a keen and focused eye. What is the herd doing, and why is it doing that? Where are the leaders, and where are the idiots (not mutually exclusive, of course)! What is our objective for the herd? After all, the border collie is as smart as any advanced four year old, knows its job, and has confidence in its ability to manage toward a goal. Further, he has no doubts at all that he will be successful.
2020 is a great time to be an information consumer. Sure, social media and computer/TV/infotainment/humanitarian giants (talking about you, Bill Gates) and their political puppets are all about shaping what we consume and understand and know, to maintain confusion, promote fear and culture obedience as if in a lab, on agar. Yet, I’m not only still able to read LRC, but many other resources proliferating Austrian economics, real history, and actual information in real context. The Last American Vagabond has a great list of news sources that any thinking person would be interested in. This simply was not available, even ten years ago. The AIER, and FEE, as well as Mises.org and a hundred others have been offering solid economic and other content that is being picked up (perhaps unknowingly) by mainstream mouthpieces (the Post, The Times, Drudge, etc), and trending. Even as mainstream media – which is to say corporate-government media – is struggling to stay relevant and interesting and “in control” – we are observing an evolution of wonderful global content that really matters.
I am seeing the genius of the younger generations, and the sweet agelessness of the internet community, and I’m beyond impressed.
Beyond that, here’s a short list that makes me smile.
The public education bubble is bursting. Home, private, independent and unschooling is unstoppable, and technology makes it possible to outperform any public school in a thousand different ways. Colleges and the enormous federal debt they consume on the backs of students and parents are finally being held to account. Recent years of awareness of the burdens of college loan debt on younger generations, and improved information about what the economy (your neighbors around the world) really want and need you to do for them is causing improved decision-making by younger generations. They were already borrowing less for college, and the current government response to the megacorona is driving the point home.
Prepping is trending. Everyone is interested in cooking and storing food, being creative at home, learning skills of productivity and survival, and DIY’ing, always popular, is getting a real shot in the arm, so to speak. The same media conglomerates, social media, Youtube and other corporate-government controllers (along the lines of CIA message shaping here and here) are finding that we like a lot of different things, and that includes prepping and survival skills.
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