Tighter… tighter… tighter…

Cutting off the flow of information, the vital circulatory function of the populace, was always a primary initiative. Unlike a noose, though, this particular method of increasing restriction was, by design, intended to sever at its terminus. Unlike a noose, whose success as a utility is dependent upon gravity exerting enough force on an object to constrict its respiratory function, the success of this plan will be marked by the distinct separation and labeling of the target demographic, then its subsequent vilification, followed closely by admonishment, ridicule, reprimand, and then punitive measures, usually exile or incarceration, though extra-judicial “solutions” are also known to occur with great reported frequency.

It is all very simple. Once the target demographic is manipulated to feel as if their own privileged source of information has become compromised by the opposition, and now serves as a duplicitous puppet, they, themselves, will tear apart their own power structure, ripping the infrastructure of their own life raft to shreds. As is often the case, it is in the tireless pursuit of one’s own self-interest that one can wreak so much havoc and irreparable damage to one’s own wellbeing. That self-interest, then becomes “Self-interest”, and a much handier and more desirable weapon of internal destruction to one’s enemies. Why then, does it seem they are so heartily invested in creating so many enemies? Perhaps the question matters not; they are, after all, on their last legs… as it were…