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  Lockdown: The New Totalitarianism Jeffrey A. Tucker   – October 1, 2020 AIER  >>  Daily Economy   >>  Socialism   >>  Regulation   >>  Government Print Every political ideology has three elements: a vision of hell with an enemy that needs to be crushed, a vision of a more perfect world, and a plan for transitioning from one to the other. The means of transition usually involve the takeover and deployment of society’s most powerful tool: the state. For this reason, ideologies trend totalitarian. They depend fundamentally on overriding people’s preferences and choices and replacing them with scripted and planned belief systems and behaviors. An obvious case is communism. Capitalism is the enemy, while worker control and the end of private property is the heaven, and the means to achieve the goal is violent expropriation. Socialism is a softer version of the same: in the Fabian tradition, you get there through piecemeal economic planning.  The ideology of racism

What do people die from? by Hannah Ritchie February 14, 2018 Our World in Data presents the empirical evidence on global development in entries dedicated to specific topics. This blog post draws on data and research discussed in our new entry on  Causes of Death . This post was first published in February 2018 using statistics for 2016. It was later updated in April 2019 with the latest data for 2017. Reuse our work  freely The world has changed considerably over the last few centuries — this is what Our World in Data shows. One thing however has remained constant through this transition: we all have to die sometime. However, the  causes  of death are changing as  living standards improve ,  healthcare advances , and lifestyles change. In this blog we attempt to answer the question ‘what do people die from?’, first by looking at the data on global causes of death followed by a selection of country-level examples. The leading causes of death across the world still vary significantly — w

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  Fahrenheit 451 Predicted People Would Demand Tyranny Barry Brownstein   – September 29, 2020 AIER  >>  Daily Economy   >>  Government   >>  Crisis   >>  Authoritarianism Print Even if it has been a while since you read  Fahrenheit 451 , you might remember Ray Bradbury’s classic for its portrayal of a dystopian future in which an authoritarian government burns books. Read  Fahrenheit 451  again to discover why people  wanted  their tyrannical government to burn books. Bradbury wrote  Fahrenheit 451  in 1953, yet the parallels to today’s social climate for censorship are haunting. Bradbury’s protagonist is Guy Montag, who, like all firemen in Bradbury’s future, burns books.  In Bradbury’s dystopia, firemen became “custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.”   Today’s mainstream and social media are “custodians of our peace of mind” as they filter out “conflicting