They effectively signaled the power of illegal fiat enforcement by the simple expedient of invoking hysterical peer pressure. Mental illness as a means of trashing the Constitution and another big step towards war-mentality levels of citizen obedience to directives.
Total control of the public discussion spaces, fear-motivated restrictions on personal liberty, successfully forbidding people to congregate in oublic spaces, even in churches! Where they might preach contrary doctrines, sing and raise up enormous power like civil rights activists did 70 years ago! Can’t have that, can we? Unopposed violations of civil right and abrogation of health privacy laws were all achieved with far greater ease than our self-styled Master Faces desired in their wettest dreams of total dominion.
The masks thus proved effective in demonstrating that the masses can be easily coerced into carrying out irrational objectives without the expense and backfiring risks of sending in the billyclubs, boots and guns.
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Date: 2022-11-07 05:59 pm (UTC)Total control of the public discussion spaces, fear-motivated restrictions on personal liberty, successfully forbidding people to congregate in oublic spaces, even in churches! Where they might preach contrary doctrines, sing and raise up enormous power like civil rights activists did 70 years ago! Can’t have that, can we? Unopposed violations of civil right and abrogation of health privacy laws were all achieved with far greater ease than our self-styled Master Faces desired in their wettest dreams of total dominion.
The masks thus proved effective in demonstrating that the masses can be easily coerced into carrying out irrational objectives without the expense and backfiring risks of sending in the billyclubs, boots and guns.