Facebook Fascism

Recently I was put on a Facebook ban. I was given three days for posting a meme about operation paperclip (clearly the Facebook overlords know nothing about history). So, what was I to do with all this extra time I was bequeathed? Like any normal person, I read some Aristotle, browsed the great articles on Mises.org, caught up on Zerohedge and stumbled back on to this excellent book by John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching. As I began reading I was in awe. As we Go Marching pulls you in on the first page and you can’t put it down. John T. Flynn perfectly predicted what America would become and just how fascism will come to America. As summed up in this excellent quote:

“When fascism comes it will not be in the form of an anti-American movement or pro-Hitler bund, practicing disloyalty. Nor will it come in the form of a crusade against war. It will appear rather in the luminous robes of flaming patriotism; it will take some genuinely indigenous shape and color, and it will spread only because its leaders, who are not yet visible, will know how to locate the great springs of public opinion and desire and the streams of thought that flow from them and will know how to attract to their banners leaders who can command the support of the controlling minorities in American public life. The danger lies not so much in the would-be Fuhrers who may arise, but in the presence in our midst of certainly deeply running currents of hope and appetite and opinion.”

It clicked for me after that. Facebook is controlling the streams of thought and is, therefore, controlling public opinion. So in reality, they are becoming the very thing they purported to be fighting against. But their bans are backfiring. The more they ban us, the more knowledge we obtain, the more ways we find not to need them anymore. This applies equally to all social media platforms.