It’s no accident that Sir Karl Popper dubbed the first volume of his magnum opus, The Spell of Plato. Plato is one of the greats of philosophy, whose greatness has seduced intellectuals for thousands of years. But, while he was a great philosopher, Plato was a lousy politician. As Popper showed, Plato’s politics were totalitarian to the core.
The core of Plato’s ideal society is that it is ruled solely by the “Governor” class: a tiny elite of the best and brightest. Naturally, that notion has enormous appeal to intellectuals.
After all, they’re better than us – and they know it.
Still, sigh, our lords and masters have to pretend – for the moment – that the Cattle Class are just as good as their masters. Until such time as they can assume their rightful place and do away with all this “democracy” rubbish, they’ll just have to hold their noses and corral us sheep as best they can.
In the months leading up to November’s election, voting officials in major cities and counties worked with a progressive group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and its allies to create ballots, strategically target voters and develop “cure” letters in situations where mail-in ballots were in danger of being tossed out.
The Center for Tech and Civic Life, or CTCL, provided millions of dollars in private funding for the elections that came from a $350 million donation from Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. The CTCL gave “COVID-19 response” grants of varying amounts to 2,500 municipalities in 49 states.
In exchange for the money, elections divisions agreed to conduct their elections according to conditions set out by the CTCL.
Okay, fiiiiine, if we must let the Great Unwashed interfere in the running of the place, at least let us make sure they do what they’re told.
A CTCL partner, the Center for Civic Design, helped design absentee ballot forms and instructions, crafted voter registration letters for felons and tested automatic voter registration systems in several states, working alongside progressive activist groups in Michigan and directly with elections offices in Georgia and Utah[…]
Facebook, with the CTCL, was also part of the effort, providing a guide and webinar for election officials on how to engage voters. Included were directions to report “voter interference” to Facebook authorities. The company also provided designated employees in six regions of the U.S. to handle questions[…]
According to court documents filed by the Thomas More Society, a conservative law firm, the Zuckerberg-funded CTCL allowed elections departments to use grant money to buy vehicles to transport “voter navigators”[…]Caleb Jeffreys, one of at least two voter navigators in Green Bay, described his duties as including “curing absentee ballots.”
RealClearInvestigations
Why not just cut to the chase and let Facebook run the elections from selecting candidates to deciding results?
While we’re at it, why bother with all that tedious doctor-patient and “informed consent” stuff? Just upload our genetic profile at birth to Facebook’s servers, and let Zuck the Great and Powerful make our medical decisions for us.
A Facebook whistleblower has leaked documents that appear to expose the tech giant’s plans to censor content that show COVID-19 “vaccine hesitancy.”
Whistleblower Morgan Kahmann[…]says the company’s documents detail a plan to curb “vaccine hesitancy” on a global scale.
Kahmann, who says he has since been suspended by the company for coming forward, told Carlson on Thursday night that content that the company deems to show hesitancy toward COVID-19 vaccines are flagged by its algorithms and assigned a “score” to determine whether it should be removed.“Anything that questions the vaccine or the narrative regarding the vaccine, which is, you know, everyone should get the vaccine and the vaccine is good and you’re not going to get many bad side effects, anything outside of that realm is basically considered under ‘vaccine hesitancy’ by Facebook’s algorithms,” Kahmann said.
“They’re afraid of what people might conclude if they see that other people are having negative side effects. They think that this is going to drive up vaccine hesitancy among the population and they see that as something that they have to combat.”
The Epoch Times
Maybe Zuckerberg can team up with Jeff Bezos and have us vaccinated by drones. No need to worry about pesky doctor appointments, citizen! No need to pester your betters with questions about “side effects”! Our ultra-quiet drones will just zip into your room at night and inject you while you sleep! You won’t even feel it!
Heck, you mightn’t wake up either, but that’s not our problem.
Now, shut up and stop bothering the men behind the curtain.
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