Continuing from item on Ecumenical Institute.
I wrote that EI was spreading the Tech Gospel in preparation for the Web War.
This reminded me strongly of the missionaries sent by the same Deepstate to Kansas, who prepared the ground for Lincoln’s war against secure employment.
The endpoint is the same in both cases. Costless labor for the elite, death for the peasants. In both cases the endpoint was crystallized by a national physical infrastructure. Lincoln served the railroad barons. EI served the tech tyrants.
A physical web is CRUCIALLY NECESSARY for total tyranny. The telegraph system was hardwired and inescapable. Radio provided a much looser NON-PHYSICAL web, which Deepstate hated. The NSA web restored the necessary HARDWIRED INESCAPABLE connections.
The railroad was ALSO a tech web in the same precise sense. Telegraphs moved with the railroad, and the railroad had its own amazingly advanced COMPUTING system.
What about the French tech tyrants of 1789? Their tyranny was crystallized by Chappe’s semaphore web. Did they prepare the ground with missionaries?
I had a vague memory of ‘committees’ as preparation. Using that word, Googlebooks quickly found Kropotkin’s history.
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The eighteenth-century philosophers had long been sapping the foundations of the law-and-order societies of that period, wherein political power, as well as an immense share of the wealth, belonged to the aristocracy and the clergy, whilst the mass of the people were nothing but beasts of burden to the ruling classes. By proclaiming the sovereignty of reason; by preaching trust in human nature; corrupted, they declared, by the institutions that had reduced man to servitude, but, nevertheless, certain to regain all its qualities when it had reconquered liberty; they had opened up new vistas to mankind. By proclaiming equality among men, without distinction of birth; by demanding from every citizen, whether king or peasant, obedience to the law, supposed to express the will of the nation when it has been made by the representatives of the people; finally, by demanding freedom of contract between free men, and the abolition of feudal taxes and services: by putting forward all these claims, linked together with the system and method characteristic of French thought, the philosophers had undoubtedly prepared, at least in men’s minds, the downfall of the old régime.
It is not enough that a movement of ideas, no matter how profound it may be, should manifest itself among the educated classes; it is not enough that disturbances, however many or great, should take place in the very heart of the people. The revolutionary action coming from the people must coincide with a movement of revolutionary thought coming from the educated classes. There must be a union of the two.
But the middle and educated classes could not have done anything alone, if, consequent on a complete chain of circumstances, the mass of the peasants had not also been stirred, and, by a series of constant insurrections lasting for four years, given to the dissatisfied among the middle classes the possibility of combating both King and Court, of upsetting old institutions and changing the political constitution of the kingdom.
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He goes on to show the influence of the 1648 English Revolution and the contemporary Yankee Revolution. The latter DNA was transferred directly by the monstrous virus called Tom Paine, who stirred up 1776 and then helped to stir up the French.
Kropotkin’s account is repeated in the tech tyrant gospel as expressed by Randians in Reason magazine, and spread by EI.
Polistra's Mill 