The Whole of Society - Soviet Style

Indeed, whole of society is a totalizing form of politics... Mass surveillance is the backbone of the approach, but it also consolidates a new class of functionaries who all directly or indirectly work for the party’s interests. This is exactly how the party carried out its mass censorship during COVID and the 2020 election: by embedding government officials and party-aligned "experts" from the for-hire world of nonprofit activism, inside the social media platforms. The result, as I chronicled in an investigative essay last year, was the largest campaign of domestic mass surveillance and censorship in American history - often censoring true and time-sensitive information...

To avoid the appearance of totalitarian overreach in such efforts, the party requires an endless supply of causes - emergencies that party officers, with funding from the state, use as pretexts to demand ideological alignment across public and private sector institutions. These causes come in roughly two forms: the urgent existential crisis (examples include COVID and the much-hyped threat of Russian disinformation); and victim groups supposedly in need of the party’s protection...

... look at one of the most important interviews of the past year, where Mike Benz - former director of the cyber portfolio of the U.S. government - explains to Tucker Carlson in detail how information flows on the internet were manipulated during the 2020 elections (and the COVID crisis).

It is hard to ignore: the indoctrination and propaganda model is creaking and groaning at all its seams. The Veil of Appearances that is meant to hide all dirty laundry from the public eye is tearing left and right.