J. B. Shurk – Why does reality seem unreal these days? The short answer is this: we are all being dragged into a government-controlled matrix. In the blockbuster movie that popularized that concept twenty years ago, Keanu Reeves’s character discovers that his mind is “living” in a virtual reality neural network while machine overlords keep his physical body comatose and imprisoned in a pod.
A lot of powerful people apparently watched that story and decided that the machines were actually on “the right side of history.”
Whereas the film championed the ideas of liberation and free will over submission and control, in the real world today, it is subjugation and authority that are championed over freedom and individual rights.
Geoffrey P. Hunt – Except for the stubbornly ignorant, led by U.S. senator Bernie Sanders and his fashionista acolyte Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, the rest of us understand that socialism is an abomination.