Joe Biden Is Ushering In The "Begin Book Burning" Era
On November 15, President Joe Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which is just a fancy way of saying $1.75 trillion is being wasted.
Merriam-Webster dictionary describes the word infrastructure as "the basic equipment and structures (such as roads and bridges) that are needed for a country, region, or organization to function properly." By this definition, only 18% of the money in the bill is going towards infrastructure, per fact-checkers from Newsweek, despite no evidence of a nationwide infrastructure crisis. Highways, bridges, and even privately-owned railroads are in good condition and improving by the year. Moreover, most infrastructure problems are present at a local level. A reworking of city and state budgets might free up some funds to fix these issues. But that might be asking too much for economically-challenged mayors like Lori Lightfoot.
So, what else is in the Infrastructure bill?
$105 billion is going towards public transit and Amtrak. Unfortunately, these public services have seen a 60% decline in customers since the pandemic. Some experts predict those riders will not return with the advent of Uber, Lyft, and more affordable vehicles.
There is reportedly $55 billion going towards clean water initiatives and $65 billion each to improve the electrical grid and expand broadband internet access.
Expanding broadband internet access in an infrastructure package?
It is being advertised as providing funds "towards building high-speed internet networks, helping low-income families pay for service and digital equity programs." But, in regards to broadband funding, the bill itself reads, "at least 50 percent of the households to be served by a project receiving a loan or grant from funds provided under the preceding proviso shall be in a rural area." Most low-income families live in urban areas, which garners the $65 billion useless for the people they say it is designed to assist.
Hidden behind the noble platitudes of social kindness, this is the opening act of having the federal government in charge of the internet. For years, citizens pushed back on government overreach. Nowadays, both sides of the political spectrum approve of it.
Facebook and Twitter act as their own authoritarian government branch. Most Americans get their news from one or both of these platforms, controlling the flowing of information and influencing people's minds. Mark Zuckerburg spent $419 million to influence the 2020 election in favor of the Democrats.
As society continues to trend towards communism, a digital purging of information has already begun. Social media platforms are doxing, shadow-banning, or outright banning conservative content. Alex Marlow of Breitbart News accuses the platforms of weaponizing their algorithm against Breitbart, News Busters, the Epoch Times, the Daily Wire, and other conservative outlets. Last year, in the days leading up to the election, Twitter banned a New York Post story about Hunter Biden. Facebook later banned another New York Post story about BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors' real estate spending spree. If Facebook and Twitter can yield this much power, so can the bureaucrats in DC.
In 1996, the Telecommunications Act was passed, along any company to enter the telecommunications market. The federal government created GONs (government-operated networks) to "help" provide citizens with better internet and phone access, competing with privately-owned businesses. However, these ventures mainly were failures, as private companies were far better at providing these services. This opened the door for the political class to start slowly taking control over the worldwide web.
Book burning and intellectual suppression have taken place across nearly all societies throughout history. The Romans, Jews, Pagans, and Christians burnt books from the opposing philosophy to keep their followers obedient. Scottish philosopher David Hume encouraged libraries to be "purified" of any writing that did not meet the relation of "fact and existence." When new utopian societies were being forged, the burning of writings related to the "old" regime was incinerated. The poets and philosophers were cast into exile or sometimes executed.
Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in 1440 led to the Enlightenment Era. As a result, more books could be produced, promoting a rise in literacy. This provided a considerable threat to authoritarian oligarchs. For all the sins committed by big tech, social media is the modern day printing press. People are becoming enlightened to shadowy corporate practices, hypocrisy of culture leaders, crimes by politicians, and various aspects of history. Enlightenment and awakening has been digitized.
Adolph Hitler used book burning as a tactic to keep Germans indoctrinated. Historian Rebecca Knuth says, "The unifying factor between all types of purposeful book-burners in the 20th century is that the perpetrators feel like victims, even if they're the ones in power." This described Hitler, who framed himself and his Nazi cohorts as victims of Jewish adversaries.
Today's ruling class feeds off of victimhood. Despite Democrats having complete control of the government, they and their corporate media lapdogs insist Trump supporters and anyone right of center are "domestic terrorists."
As woke culture invades academia, an elimination of books that could potentially offend students is being removed. This is coupled with the banning of several Dr. Seuss books.
Some suggest we are in a renewed era of enlightenment. Slowly, people are starting to wake up from the liberal trance they were under. More citizens realize the faults behind framing everything through race, the lies told by corporate media or the misrepresentation of facts. When the masses become enlightened, a purge of information that threatens a new world will supersede.
Suppose the government remains successful in its power grab? In that case, a digital book burning and information purge could plunge America into darkness.
