12-13-2024, 04:29 AM
An interesting topic though all over the place. Not sure if it's about Chinese social credit system, vaccines or general dangers of technology. Anyway, let's start with China. It's social credit system is a tool of control certainly, but let's give some credit to the poor Chinese. They've made some progress since the time of Mao. Sure, the government has more opportunities to control the citizens due to the rapid advancement of technology but it no longer slaughters people en masse. We don't hear regularly about the massacres in China and it's as much freedom as you can get by the Chinese standards.
Mandatory vaccines is nothing new. When there was smallpox epidemic in Poland, the government forced vaccines on everyone. The authorities didn't issue fancy vaccine passports. Instead, the police simply would forcefully drag an obstinate individual to the place where the vaccines were administered while he was screaming, kicking, spitting, cursing and what not to no avail.
My point is that technology doesn't really make governments more oppressive. It can make the violence more sophisticated but the history shows that the authoritarian regimes can do well without it.
Mandatory vaccines is nothing new. When there was smallpox epidemic in Poland, the government forced vaccines on everyone. The authorities didn't issue fancy vaccine passports. Instead, the police simply would forcefully drag an obstinate individual to the place where the vaccines were administered while he was screaming, kicking, spitting, cursing and what not to no avail.
My point is that technology doesn't really make governments more oppressive. It can make the violence more sophisticated but the history shows that the authoritarian regimes can do well without it.
