Soft Totalitarianism and the Media Cartels

• 1:07:29Soft totalitarianism will arrive with entertainment and consumer goods, not violence.
• 1:07:42Citizens consume garbage media without power or ability to resist or leave.
• 1:08:04Workers, independent journalists, and ordinary people have virtually no power in the current system.
• 1:08:33Four or five media conglomerates control all information distribution channels.
• 1:09:16Tech cartels like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and YouTube control all online commerce and communication.
• 1:09:35American fascism will come as checkpoints and approval systems for travel, housing, and industries, not as visible brutality.
• 1:10:05The ruling class will decide what cars people can buy and where they can live while maintaining their own privileges.
• 1:11:05Pay attention to what's happening; leaders in precarious positions could act unpredictably and dangerously.
• 1:11:28Powerful people resent the internet's exposure of their crimes and would eliminate it if they could.
• 1:12:23After 9/11, emergency measures that made sense in fear became permanent tools of surveillance and imprisonment.
• 1:13:05The government suspended constitutional rights it was founded on and later admitted those powers should never have been granted.

Jimmy FallonJeffrey Epstein