The 21st Century Panopticon

Digital Surveillance and the Regulation of Thought

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“Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance” …

— Michael Foucault

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Starmer’s Digital Leash

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20th Century American Political Philosopher Leo Strauss [LINK] wrote an essay in the 1960’s titled The Three Waves of Modernity [LINK].

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[LINK] - The Three Waves of Modernity

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The essay is a critique of Modernity and outlines how Individual Liberalism would gradually morph over-time into Collectivism - Socialism and Communism and ultimately into Fascism. [LINK]

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[LINK] - Three Waves - Strauss’s Critique of Modernity

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[LINK] - Fascism - The Third Wave of Modernity

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20th Century Italian Philosopher Augusto del Noce also outlined how the Theology of Marxism [LINK] would give rise to a New Totalitarianism [LINK].

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[LINK] - Del Noce - New Totalitarianism

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Eric Voegelin also spoke of the emergence of a psychosis as we increasingly become unmoored from our metaphysical grounding [LINK].

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“The philosophy of Eric Voegelin offers insight into the causes of the twentieth-century nightmare, causes, he suggests, bound up with the very nature of “modernity” itself.

According to Voegelin, the great modern ideological movements— communism, fascism, national socialism — are neither random and inexplicable outbursts nor solely the products of particular material and historical conditions.They should be understood instead as the extreme manifestations of a form of spiritual disorder or psychic disorientation that springs from certain tensions inherent in human existence. For Voegelin, the crisis of modernity is inessence a spiritual crisis rooted in a deformation of the truth of reality”…

— Linda Raeder

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Augusto del Noce explores this in his book The Crisis of Modernity [LINK] as Western Civilisation increasingly embraces the Theology of Marxism [LINK].

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20th Century English conservative writer, philosopher and social critic - Roger Scruton [LINK] - highlighted how Marxist Ideology’s remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a power-directed system of thought.

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[LINK] - Scruton on Totalitarian Ideology

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[LINK] - Leader of Reform UK on the Limits of State Power

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Total Surveillance, Censorship, And Behavior Control Are Real Goals Of Digital ID Advocates

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Is it the end of Free Speech [LINK] given:

• Western Civilisation is increasingly replacing the Theology of Christianity [LINK] [LINK] with the Theology of Marxism [LINK] and a New Totalitarianism [LINK];

• Various powerful encumbent globalist interests [LINK] prefer a collectivist Hobbesian Political Philosophy of State governance over a Lockean Political Philosophy [LINK] of Individual Natural Rights which results in an increasing role and concentration of power in the State [LINK], Corporations & Global Trans National Organisations [LINK] ( noting according to Benito Mussolini Fascism is Corporatism) in areas such as Human Rights [LINK], Universal Values [LINK] and Freedom of Speech [LINK]; and

• A Globalist Secular Post-Modern Liberal Orthodoxy [LINK] [LINK] has become the dominant ideological social & tribal group across our Institutions [LINK] [LINK] which results in a necessity for political & ideological conformity (compliance) [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] and in turn, increasingly shapes the Overton Window [LINK] of the Public Sphere [LINK] on what can construed to be acceptable thought.

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The Jolly Britpop BritCard

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“Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you”…

— George Orwell

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Starmer’s Digital Leash

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Please read, listen and watch:

• The End of Free Speech? [LINK];

• UK Progressive Think Tank Conversation [LINK];

• Free Speech crack down on questioning Climate Change? [LINK];

• The Long March of the Left across our Institutions [LINK];

• Has Secularism become a New Religion? [LINK];

• When Truth becomes a Right-Wing Concept [LINK];

• United Nations and Global Governance [LINK];

• Will England cease to be England? [LINK];

• Proposed European “Democracy” Shield and Censorship Industrial Complex [LINK];

• Free Speech - UK and United States: UK British Columnist and Journalist [LINK];

• Google agrees to lift censorship of conservative social media commentators [LINK] - and - Google agrees to lift censorship of COVID commentators [LINK];

• United Kingdom - Is it really “far-right” to be concerned with mass immigration, secure borders, a cost-of-living crisis, and a crackdown on freedom of speech? [LINK];

• Marxification of education [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK];

• How the British invented communism [LINK];

• Is the UK a Christian Nation, and does it believe in free speech? [LINK];

• Legal Positivism and Marxism [LINK] - Algorithmic Governance [LINK];

• Fabianism [LINK]; and

• 45th & 47th United States Presidents’ UN Speech - September 2025 [LINK].

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