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To get change, create or exploit a crisis . . .

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to control the change, set the agenda and control thought to a thesis, an antithesis and your desired synthesis. So, we see, in a cartoon:

Where, let us recall the change challenge:

. . . thus the fallacy of the false dilemma pushing a simplistic dichotomy of choices:

. . . and the Overton Window context, where one has to open up space to pull policy, likely incrementally — thus we see a slippery slope ratchet:

so, we see how a slippery slope slide into lawless oligarchy can be created:

Are we facing a march of the Lemmings?

Of Lemmings, marches of folly and cliffs of self-falsifying absurdity . . .

Food for thought as we contemplate technoplutocracy. END