Diversity is strength is the law.

[Bobby]

Blair Cottrell's County Court Appeal - Day 3

[Bobby]

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

— George Orwell, 1984

[Black Orchid]

"Cort"?

Ignorance is bliss for many, Bobby.

[Bobby]

"Cort"?

Ignorance is bliss for many, Bobby.

It was just a typo in a hastily made video.

You only found out about it because of me!

[Black Orchid]

"Cort"?

Ignorance is bliss for many, Bobby.

It was just a typo in a hastily made video.

You only found out about it because of me!

Yes I know and yes I did but it really stands out just the same. They should have corrected it.

[Bobby]

"Cort"?

Ignorance is bliss for many, Bobby.

It was just a typo in a hastily made video.

You only found out about it because of me!

Yes I know and yes I did but it really stands out just the same. They should have corrected it.

Of course but what is more important is Blair's 7 minute message.
Did you listen to it?

[Black Orchid]

Not yet.

[brian ross]

Not yet.

I wouldn't bother. He is a convicted criminal.

[Bobby]

Not yet.

I wouldn't bother. He is a convicted criminal.

Listen to what he sayeth for thou shall have much to learn.

Jesus was also a criminal.

[Bogan]

I am glad I am nearly dead, because all I can see about western civilisation is complete civilisational collapse, and sometime soon. History shows how civilisations fall very quickly. Nobody predicted the fall of the USSR before it suddenly happened. And I think that western civilisation is going to go the same way. When it happens, it will come suddenly and unexpectantly.

I have lived through the most interesting and fascinating time of human history, when immense technological changes coincided with an exponentially increasing human population. In my lifetime, the human population of Earth has nearly tripled. Extrapolate forward and it simply can not go on. Perhaps some kind superbug will thin us out? The only other alternatives are going to be the other traditional population reducers, starvation and war.

Whereas Brian Ross froths at the mouth at the idea of Donald Trump being the President of the USA, to my mind all Trump is doing is propping up the US for a few more years until, like the USSR, Spain, Great Britain, and Rome before it, it is going to go bankrupt. Europe itself is heading towards civil war. But Brian is like a Titanic survivor, busily punching holes in his own lifeboat, rejoicing at the sinking of his own liner, and trying to get ship's captain arrested for trying to save the ship.

The great human experiment of democracy and free markets is over, and it failed. It failed because democracy can be corrupted by a myriad of powerful vested interests, and free markets can never remain free. Governments will always try to meddle in the markets, sometimes for very good and valid reasons, but most times for political gain. And when they meddle for political gain, the process snowballs until cronyism, special favours, and money displace democracy as the real sources of power. That is where we are today.

My advice to the younger generation is to start buying gold. In a world where "money" today consists of simply waving your Iphone at a terminal, this is a concept guaranteed to destroy any idea as to what money really represents. It is a concept guaranteed to create bankruptcy, and it is almost emblematic of a society where many people think that the government's coffers are bottomless. Sooner or later, this abstract and bizarre concept is going to face a reality check.

The only satisfying factor in all of this, is that when the ship finally sinks, Brian Ross and his clones will go down with it.