I am certainly aware of the current fascist banking push against PC game download stores and how it threatens art and existence itself, as well as its previous attacks elsewhere. The long story short of this current part of societal collapse is that money shouldn’t care what someone spends it on. I also wonder if there was some intent of this prior to the current online market by placing historical figures of authority on currency, as if to say, “Would George Washington, your founding father, approve of you spending this piece of America on watching some scantily-clad women gyrate on stage?” Sometimes it’s current figures depending on the country, which just makes the connection of money to the ruling party more obvious.
It’s also a typical attack scenario that not only loops in the usual “think of the children” angle but also the “guilty by association” one. It’s all a plan to get a foothold in precedent by eradicating what most allegedly sane people find disagreeable, including myself to whatever degree, before sliding the standards further to attack the real targets, essentially anyone who’s not a wealthy white straight male as the end goal. Disagreeing with that at any point along the way essentially criminalizes that person as a degenerate headed for the death camps. It also has the additional goal of eliminating art itself by forcing out those who would make a living doing art, plus with the deliberate push for “AI” models to eliminate visual and audio and eventually all other arts careers overall so that corporations and governments can have all the assets they need without risk of someone’s unapproved opinions sneaking into the works. The war on art would be due to its role in pushing back against fascism during previous regimes. Eliminating the creators would only leave consumers, ready to take anything sent their way out of desperation.
The plan of these sorts of regimes is to essentially create a “cloning” path where the people change for the state rather than the state changing for the people. By completely overtaking the role of parents so that actual parents are freed up to work 120-hour weeks at minimum, excluding mandatory breeding sessions, the state farms new loyalists who will fit in even better than the previous generation, all to uphold the short-sighted goals of whatever dynasty is on top. That is unless actual cloning and some kind of in-vitro programming are more economical. That whole system is of course unsustainable and will implode within a century, effectively ensuring human extinction, though a deserved one.
The major problem here is that the current majority of people who are against this are fighting money itself, the core of the overall system that’s calling the shots on what to do with it, with the leaders of those regimes holding control over most of it. Money talks louder than words, but actions could speak even louder. I just wonder if there’s any chance of any effective actions being non-violent at this point, or if humanity is once again committed into a path of violence for change, as violence is a core essence of humanity since its dawn, from hunting to forcing out undesirable traits. Maybe this is how cryptocurrency, mainly known for being a high risk commodity more than anything, finally takes hold as the de facto way to spend on anything worth a damn. And I’d really like to not have to use that. I’d considered taking self-imposed exile over committing to that scenario previously, particularly during when graphics cards were impossible to find reasonably.
As a side note, I’m not a fan of children, and I don’t just mean in “that way”, and I also very much do not like pedophiles, and I’m pretty sure a number of those are working in those regimes that work to oppress well-meaning people. In fact if you know one of those for sure, weaponize that knowledge. My point is I see right through anything said to “protect the children” as “let’s go back to Puritanism and then further”. Really, I’m just not a fan of kids in general, and that bypass to the “protect the children” angle that comes with it is just an annoying bonus I have to deal with too often in this world. On average, they’re too annoying with all their running around into things as well as constant screaming, especially with parents who don’t deserve to be such and pretty much aren’t anyway due to their lack of commitment to helping a child understand the world. Plus they’re highly effective disease vectors, something that’s only going to be more of a concern when medicine soon reverts to mostly bloodletting with rusty knives and the rest is assumed to be the result of a wandering uterus, and any plagues that result are to be blamed on people still following proper hygiene and medical care. I don’t want to be a parent, and I especially don’t want to sacrifice my livelihood to roll out the red carpet for some improperly raised horde bearing a plague of both literal and societal diseases. With all the talk about job stealing, apparently parents just don’t seem to care about the government taking that job too. Even as much as I don’t like them though, kids can still turn out fine, if there’s effort involved. I just see too many of the worst.