“Social Justice” is just another name for Social Control

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Whether the information age is over or not, information itself continues to be the hottest commodity around. It is so hot, that mainstream media went from misinforming the public as a way to control people to openly lying to them because lies, when repeated tirelessly, are easier to believe than truth itself. One of the topics mainstream media lies the most about is the Left’s calls for “social justice”. The Pope continuously calls for social justice. He begs for western countries to “accept” illegal aliens because, according to him, not doing so is a sign of racism, hatred, and above all a sin. Pope Francis has one of the loudest megaphones out there and the mainstream media provides an even bigger amplifier. The Holy Father, as many people like to call him is not alone in his call for “social justice”. There are all kinds of people involved in the movement to promote a more “egalitarian” society. What these people – politicians, religious figures, actors, billionaires, and philanthropists don’t say is that an egalitarian society means that most people – 99% of us – will be equally poor, while a few thousand people will be extremely rich. What Leftists, socialists, and communists like to call “social justice” involves the unjust redistribution of wealth. That is, using force to steal property from some people to redistribute it to other people. Although there is enough money to go around, “social justice” supporters do not intend to redistribute their own wealth, but everyone else’s wealth. In doing this redistribution, they do not take their own property to give it to others, but someone else’s property. Perhaps the biggest promoter of so-called “social justice” is the government itself. Government as it was intended to be – a group of people who serve their peers – does not exist. Government is composed of people who serve their own interests and those of their corporate owners. Corporations use government as a tool of control so they can reap the benefits of monopoly, having little or no competition, gaining access to those in office to obtain political favors in exchange for campaign donations, lobbying elected representatives to get substantially advantageous conditions over their competitors or small businesses. After solidifying their position, corporations and governments that work on behalf of corporate interests utilize any and all tools to exercise the control they gain over populations. They often appeal to philanthropy, justice, socialism, and other seemingly well-intended campaigns to gain public trust. Corporate capitalists, or as I call them, Crapitalists, influence, use and often buy off social groups, people who mean well and who truly seek to help others to hoodwink society into submission. One of the social movements that lost its way is the environmental movement. Scientists, academia, and the clueless public succumbed to corporate interests that seek to limit humanity’s habitat. Over many decades, corporate barons have sought concentration of power in fewer hands, and the only way to do that was to teach people that they were bad for the environment. Most people bought this idea, even though it is precisely corporations the entities that are responsible for the most destructive environmental disasters. Lately, terrorism has been the tool of choice to force surveillance onto the populations and to limit freedom of movement and freedom of speech. The fact of being observed modifies our behavior, it is a passive but effective coercive way of telling people, “you are being watched” and always, to a greater extent, the authoritative figure of government, police or intelligence agencies becomes greater and more powerful. Social networks are being a great learning ground in that respect. We must “take care” of what we say, how we say it and to whom we tell it. The possible consequences of our actions change our attitudes, or at least their appearance before other observers. In the digital world, we were never who we really are, but we are what we appear to be. The Chinese Model There are several case studies we can point to, but China is a country that hits all the high notes when it comes to political and social control. The Chinese government is preparing a disciplinary system with which to gather mass information about its citizens to assess their loyalty to the communist regime. This initiative brought back the debate on digital surveillance to the center of the talks on technology and society. An algorithm will collect data from Chinese citizens’ social networks, banking or consumer information on the networks and will reward “good citizens” with greater ease when it comes to getting a mortgage, a job or a college of higher status for their children. This is Big Brother on steroids. It is the State molding society by coercion. However, advocates of this measure value its potential benefit in aspects such as “judicial credibility or social and commercial sincerity”. Their detractors warn of the dangers of creating reductionist models of what is considered to be a good citizen and, above all, the total loss of privacy. However, some voices warn that this scenario is not something new. In fact, they warn that many mechanisms of this type have been in operation for some time. They have been out there for quite a while indeed, and not only in China. This is stated by Ramon Sangüesa, a computer science doctor and researcher in artificial intelligence and automatic learning. 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