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so SCE pulls a Stalin maneuver?
SCE folks turn off power and then provide a van for folks to recharge batteries...and they provide a small amount of food water, and other resources? how does that differ from a plucking?
SCE folks turn off power and then provide a van for folks to recharge batteries...and they provide a small amount of food water, and other resources? how does that differ from a plucking?
Plucking
Happy, healthy, and hopeful folks resist demands to conform to other folks’ wishes that conflict with their own preferences. Whosover other folks wish to manage must first suffer. Miserable folks tend to look for ways to reduce the misery, and tend to comply with those folks who promote comfort through obedience.
According to some accounts, Stalin, a Russian dictator, plucked a live chicken into nudity, set it down whilst showing it bread crumbs in his hand, and then treated it to a handful of grain. The chicken was a most devoted pet thereafter. Stalin’s point was that stripping folks of resources, and offering a little bit of something, was key to controlling folks.
Recently, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE) company folks turned off electric power to select customers allegedly for safety reasons.
SCE folks then deployed vans to affected areas to enable folks to recharge device batteries. They also provided food, water, and other resources to these affected folks.
First, utility folks turn off power. Then, they provide comfort to affected folks. This looks like a plucking and treating event.
Problem: Controllers shut down centrally generated power
Going forward, power utility folks may turn off power for “safety” for increasing intervals. They may offer resources and services to affected users.
Reaction: Controllers offer to minimize customer suffering. Some folks try to adapt or resolve their discomfort by their own efforts.
Some affected folks may whine and seek “legal” remedies. Some may move to where they hope not to suffer outages.
Some folks may prepare with electrical generators (gasoline, diesel, propane, or solar). They may stock up on resources. Some may form co-ops to address power concerns.
Solution: Legislators regulate folks’ efforts to resolve their discomfort
Efforts to personally ameliorate power outage effects will bother controllers, who prefer that other folks depend upon them for living arrangements. They will try to impede such efforts through “legal” means.
Legislators may regulate possession and use of generators, requiring permits, licenses, and insurance to have/operate generators. They may regulate stockpiling resources, calling such activity “hoarding”. Rule-makers will claim that generators and “hoarding” are unsafe without proper supervision.
This scenario is just another in a long train of efforts toward an end: subjugation of humans through compelling them into dependency.
Happy, healthy, and hopeful folks resist demands to conform to other folks’ wishes that conflict with their own preferences. Whosover other folks wish to manage must first suffer. Miserable folks tend to look for ways to reduce the misery, and tend to comply with those folks who promote comfort through obedience.
According to some accounts, Stalin, a Russian dictator, plucked a live chicken into nudity, set it down whilst showing it bread crumbs in his hand, and then treated it to a handful of grain. The chicken was a most devoted pet thereafter. Stalin’s point was that stripping folks of resources, and offering a little bit of something, was key to controlling folks.
Recently, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE) company folks turned off electric power to select customers allegedly for safety reasons.
SCE folks then deployed vans to affected areas to enable folks to recharge device batteries. They also provided food, water, and other resources to these affected folks.
First, utility folks turn off power. Then, they provide comfort to affected folks. This looks like a plucking and treating event.
Problem: Controllers shut down centrally generated power
Going forward, power utility folks may turn off power for “safety” for increasing intervals. They may offer resources and services to affected users.
Reaction: Controllers offer to minimize customer suffering. Some folks try to adapt or resolve their discomfort by their own efforts.
Some affected folks may whine and seek “legal” remedies. Some may move to where they hope not to suffer outages.
Some folks may prepare with electrical generators (gasoline, diesel, propane, or solar). They may stock up on resources. Some may form co-ops to address power concerns.
Solution: Legislators regulate folks’ efforts to resolve their discomfort
Efforts to personally ameliorate power outage effects will bother controllers, who prefer that other folks depend upon them for living arrangements. They will try to impede such efforts through “legal” means.
Legislators may regulate possession and use of generators, requiring permits, licenses, and insurance to have/operate generators. They may regulate stockpiling resources, calling such activity “hoarding”. Rule-makers will claim that generators and “hoarding” are unsafe without proper supervision.
This scenario is just another in a long train of efforts toward an end: subjugation of humans through compelling them into dependency.
