Modern Totalitarianism Comes from Regular People More Often than from State in the West

Cancel Culture is a Product of Woke Mobs, not of the Government

As it was discussed in one good article I had shared, totalitarianism and censorship as its main tool do not always come from the top to bottom, and are not always only state driven. In the modern West, certain active in social media and Internet overall groups of people might be no less potent driving force of censorship and coercion of their fellow citizens than government officials themselves. In our Internet age, mainstream media and social media are more powerful than state, after all. Hence, social media campaigns might have profound consequences for all our society, and deplatforming from social media means losing one's public voice, basically. Mainstream media propaganda is also much more potent tool than any state coercion those day.

Which kind of modern totalitarianism I speak of? Well, many kinds. Woke totalitarian ideology and cancel culture manifesting in censorship and deplatforming of all dissenting voices. Thus, anyone critisizing BLM or defending JK Rowling is now at risk of being canceled due to it. I'm speaking also of COVID vaccine fascism, ofc, when anyone opposing fascist vaccine mandates is labeled as 'anti-vaxxer', 'anti-science' and canceled and deplatformed as well. Not only vaccine mandates but pretty much anything official about COVID. Anyone doubting the necessity of draconian lockdowns, unscientific mask and vaccine mandates, pretty much ANY WORD of Dr Fauci, is immediately accused of 'misinformation' and censored. Not only censored, they can lose their jobs as well. And all this not only with the full complicity and approval from brainwashed majority, but often at its direct bidding.

Now, why at the direct bidding from regular people? Well, how do you think most acts of censorship and deplatforming exactly happen now in the West? Is it Biden administration and Dr Fauci or their agents who censor all the dissenters? Is it that biggest corporations use their money and influence to censor certain content? Sometimes yes but most often not. Most often it's regular people, regular Internet users, who start large campaigns in social media demanding certain public persons (and sometimes not even that public) being 'held accountable' for their unpopular views. It's regular Twitter and Facebook 'Woke' users who police the Internet, demanding to cancel and censor anyone who dared to 'spout bigoted opinions'.

It's millions of regular Twitter users who back in 2020 were verbally abusing JK Rowling and sending her death wishes for her allegedly 'transphobic' comments. It's Spotify users now who demand to censor Joe Rogan podcasts over its alleged 'medical misinformation'. It was Netflix employees who were protesting allegedly 'transphobic' Dave Chappelle's Special. It was Disney employees who demanded to fire an actress Gina Carano from The Mandalorian cast for her unpopular political views as well. In all of those and countless other cases, it was regular, 'politically active', Woke people who demanded from corporations or Big Tech companies to 'take certain action' - most often, cancel, fire, censor and ban - against certain content and certain public persons.

So, a certain social class - so-called Woke class - of people was created in the West, and this Woke social class is the main driving force of modern censorship. Woke people are usually pretty active in social media and are policing their friends and acquaintances' profiles there on the subject of alleged 'bigotry' and 'misinformation' (that's why they were called Woke in the first place because they were always 'woke', e.g., on the alert for 'bigotry', on social media). They are also pretty politically active and usually adopt all the most trendy, popular and 'progressive' political opinions. Hence anyone who didn't adopt those opinions is denounced as a 'bigot' and needs to be censored.

How the Woke social class was created? Well, political views of the Woke were formed by mainstream media propaganda and also Marxist indoctrination in the academia (hence, 'educated' more often than not means 'indoctrinated' in the modern West, especially in US). But the Woke active position in social media is a part of modern life with increased importance of social media overall. Social media are taking more and more of people's time and lives. What started as a platform for connecting people and for sharing photos and details of one's personal life, turned first into toxic political battlefield, and later into a 'safe space' for one-sided political rants where all the opponents are censored and deplatformed. In this toxic climate the Woke had flourished.

Now, ofc, Woke people were utilized by certain nefarious players among elite to serve their ends. The Woke usually attack only those whom corporate and political elite hate (and on whom mainstream media point out to them). Thus, the Woke demand to cancel all right wing politicians for their alleged sexism and homophobia but ignore much more blatant homophobia and sexism of Islam. They condemn Trump for border crisis but ignore the very same thing - border crisis - under Biden. Examples like that are multitude. The point is that Woke 'Internet police' is used by corrupt corporate elite to purge the Internet space from all dissenting voices, from everyone who speak what our billionaires and elite don't like. The technology is pretty simple and sinister.

The worst of it is that people, the Woke ones particularly, themselves help the corrupt elite to create a new system of censorship and totalitarian thought control which would be eventually turned on them and their thought as well but alas they're too dumb to realize that. The Woke are too dumb to realize that freedom of speech protects US ALL (not only 'bigots and haters' as they think), and give US ALL a platform to speak out. If you consent to censoring conservatives for their political views, then you basically consent to censoring EVERYONE for their political views. Because again, freedom of speech protects EVERYONE's right to speak, not only certain political views. And if you'd take this right from some social groups, then you as well took it from all social groups. Yea, for now your political views are in favor of the elite but for HOW LONG? When your views would fall from grace, you would be censored and canceled just as conservatives now. And it would be useless to whine of 'freedom of speech' then because you yourselves had destroyed this freedom of speech in your blind hatred to your political opponents.