The Existential Problem of Information Dissemination for Modern Government
From his interview with Peter Robinson on Uncommon Knowledge, Milton Friedman shows a level of remarkable salience on the subject of the internet being a harbinger of freedom for the people:
Earlier in this interview, as well, he also mentions how the burgeoning Tech industry is a great example of a market that wasn’t regulated, and how it has brought so much prosperity and wealth. Ironic to make such a prediction, not only before that bubble popped and became a permanent mar in the minds the average American about how quickly a mania can destroy our lives and expectations, but also how that very industry became the beacon at which a nihilistic leviathan of tyranny and political extremism would sound the horns on its traditionalist and Christian nemesis.
So his prediction might have seemed rather obtuse, and other than being a great intellectual hero and inspiration of mine, I definitely harbored that opinion when I first viewed this interview. However, though his answer was brief, Friedman hit on something important that, no matter how blackpilling we all may become of the state of culture and freedom these days, provides a perfect example of how we will only win.
Now obviously he made the point that the internet will be a great way for people to hide their money with the click of a button, and so gov’t will ultimately have an existential issue of obtaining people’s wealth in more destructive ways that make legislation and culture continuously misconstrued in a web of not understanding what is the right and wrong thing to do with someone’s wealth, but this further extends to information, as well.
You see, gov’ts of the world face a giant existential problem, whereas anytime before this digital printing press, they didn’t have. Before the internet, the three channels on television offered you all the sensational media you needed, along with magazines and newspapers, information was very neat and tidy; controlled by the very few, and filtered through whatever the regime needed it to be. Beyond the internet, this information control was most certainly going to collapse at some point, as the mounting lies of the US gov’t could not hold together, which just goes hand-in-hand with the entropy of democratic governance.
However, what the internet has done, and we have seen this *wink wink* especially recently, where all the info you needed wasn’t fed to you by a giant news media. A news media that lives in a great disquietude of its own legitimacy only sustained through bored, technologically-inept boomer attention. Rather, you could get on-the-ground video, paperwork, eye witness accounts, and accounts from actual doctors about what was happening via the internet, and not some jagoff no-name medical expert paid a few thousand bucks to go on CNN and bark out a few orders to keep us proles in line.
See what I mean? And what’s crazy, especially if you are honed in to how even the Fed doesn’t have control over the real money supply, how the government itself, doesn’t have control over the dissemination of information, and rather, it is a phenomenon separate from the political. Put simply - the proclivity towards decentralization due to the instant technological proliferation of information and knowledge has made the government and media a relic of the past. People, to some level of accuracy, can get a better boots-on-the-ground point-of-view from sparse connections they have through Twitter than any of your boomer parents and grandparents combined can with their avid, obsessive viewing of CNN and MSNBC.
So we essentially have reached a bizarre focal point in history, where we can connect with one another, share truth, and even if we get taken down by the PTB, we can still prop back up with ease elsewhere. This, in turn, has created this phenomenon la Nostra Cosa (di reazionarie) where there is a large group of people in the West who get it and are preparing for the utter demise of this outdated, broken way to govern and control, not with vitriolic disdain and a belly full of blackpills, but with a tranquil knowing that this will all be for the greater good - to allow itself to fall. Patchwork is never the answer.
“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
Carl Jung
Christ be with you.