nages their principle concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains but to spare them all care of thinking and all trouble of living. Some of his writings go in factor with our amendment right--which either I will post an new discussion on Animal Farm, or below this." Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in AmericaNow hasn't that occurred today? Technology, including telecommunications and vast computer networks and storage databases, all intertwined and instantly accessible to the government and large corporations only extend the reach of the masters over their children slaves and make individual expression and freedom more difficult by infinite degrees. Add to this, encryption and surveillance technology such that the government has, quite literally, all the keys. Hence any threat to the dominant power can be "neutralized" before it achieves real power and influence. What's left?Also, do not forget how readily this "government" will squash individual dissent that threatens it's true owner- the wealthy and powerful. What after all is one man alone- a pitiful, tired creature withering on the vine- defeated and doomed to death- unable to change a thing- a voice in the wilderness- seldom believed and often ridiculed.The last thing that I want to bring up is when he wrote:"At the present time, an oppressed member of the community has therefore only one method of self defense,- he may appeal to the whole nation; and if the whole nation is deaf to his compliant, he may appeal to mankind: the only means he has of making this appeal is by the press. Thus the liberty of the press is infinitely more valuable amongst democratic nations than amongst all others; it is the only cure for the evils which equality may produce. ... Something analogous may be said of the judicial power. It is a part of the essence of judicial power to attend to private interests, and to fix itself with ...
