2026-05-05
The alliance of Big Government with Big Corporations is an inherently powerful beast that does all it can to ensure that we the people feel that we have to comply with its policies.
Those policies are presented as though they work in our favour, but if that were the case, what need for coercion? We would be queuing up for their product. Indeed, many do exactly that because we cannot believe that Big G and Big C could collaborate (illegally) against our interests - that would be preposterous. As indeed, it is.
The USA has taken coercion a long way in specific states, less far in others, with (weirdly) "religious exemptions" being a particular battlefront. In the UK (aside from Covid) we do seem to be free to disagree to a much greater extent than in the "land of the free" USA, but SPI-B turned out to be a dab hand at dishing out the psychological pressure to comply.
So whilst this article is probably more relevant to Americans than to the British, it does work within the narratives of officialdom to suggest lines of analysis and defence against such coercion as Big G and Big C would bring to bear on us.
If you want or need a fair hearing from the agents of officialdom or their supporters, this may assist.
