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Soft Totalitarianism & The Manufactured Crisis Machine · The Slippery Slope

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  The red light on. I'm just waiting for the change.
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  Welcome back to the Slippery Slope podcast.
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  I am Jay Fallon, obviously. So today I want to talk about
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  what's going on this week. Hey, obviously we had this
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  address by the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese.
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  So I want to talk about something that I've covered
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  before, but it's becoming impossible to ignore it.
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  We are watching what I believe is the rise of what I will call
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  soft totalitarianism. It's not the old school thought
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  authoritarianism with, you know, with tanks or in tanks in the
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  streets and soldiers at your door.
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  Now this is it's a modern Western version.
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  It's subtle, It's polished, it's wrapped in the language of
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  safety misinformation for the public good.
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  And the the national address delivered by your PM Anthony
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  Albanese the other night is a perfect example of how this
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  works. So let me be clear, this isn't,
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  it's not about attacking the man, the one man.
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  This is about analysing a pattern of leadership that has
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  become common across Western democracies.
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  A a pattern where governments increasingly rely on fear,
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  urgency and crisis framing to shape public behaviour.
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  Because when you can control the narrative, you don't need to
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  control the people by force, they control themselves.
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  So Albanese appears on every major television network.
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  It's a rare prime time national address to warn Australians
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  about a looming fuel crisis triggered by conflict in the
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  Middle East. He tells us to expect months of
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  economic pain. He urges people not to panic,
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  not to panic buy fuel. He encourages us to use public
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  transport where possible. You know, now on the surface
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  that sounds like reasonable leadership, but when you look
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  deeper, you, you can see the cracks because this so-called
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  crisis didn't appear out of nowhere.
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  It was predictable, it was foreseeable, it was preventable.
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  Australia has known for years that we have no meaningful fuel
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  security, no long term reserves, no domestic refining capacity
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  and no diversified supply chain. So experts have warned about
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  this repeatedly. Defence analysts have warned,
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  economists have warned about it, even the government's own
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  reports have warned. But nothing's changed.
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  Because if nothing changes, then nothing will change.
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  And now, when the consequences finally arrive, the government
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  frames it as an unavoidable, an unavoidable emergency.
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  And we're told to stay calm, trust the process, avoid
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  misinformation. This is the pattern.
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  This is the script. This is soft totalitarianism.
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  And that's control through fear, not force.
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  Soft totalitarianism doesn't need to break down your door.
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  It just needs to break down your confidence.
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  It uses fear based messaging, vague warnings.
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  We've seen that building. Obviously we all remember what
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  happened just a few years ago in the great Plan Demic that went
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  on these vague warnings. You know everyone if you don't
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  do this absolute catastrophe for you and everyone.
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  But it's all very vague emotional appeals, crisis
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  language, and the constant reminder that the government
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  knows best. What I believe is the government
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  is replacing God. The government is put themselves
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  in there as God. They ignored God, they've denied
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  God, they've denied the existence of God, but they've
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  placed themselves as God. It's it's not do this or else.
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  It's do this because it's safe. It's do this because
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  misinformation is dangerous. And it's do this because we're
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  all in this together. We're all in this together.
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  So come on, let's go and do this.
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  And the moment you question it, you're told you're being
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  irresponsible or paranoid or spreading misinformation.
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  This is how modern governments expand control without ever,
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  ever appearing authoritarian. They don't force compliance,
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  they manufacture it. And this all brings me to the
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  second part of this episode, the manufactured crisis.
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  Industry, governments and media have learned something very
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  powerful. Fear is the most the most
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  effective political currency in the world.
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  Fear keeps people compliance. Fear keeps people distracted.
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  Fear keeps people dependent on authority.
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  So what do we see? A constant cycle of new
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  emergencies, new warnings, new threats, new reasons to stay
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  informed, new justifications for government intervention.
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  And the Albanese address fits perfectly into this pattern.
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  Instead of long term planning, we get last minute warnings.
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  Instead of leadership, we get crisis managements.
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  Instead of vision, we get fear. And the media, the media
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  amplifies it because fear sells. Fear keeps people watching.
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  Fear keeps people clicking. Fear keeps people anxious, and
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  anxious people are easier to influence.
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  This is not accidental. This is not random.
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  This is a system that they've created.
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  So this is how I see Australia's leadership and what Australia's
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  leadership problem is, and I've spoken about this a lot when
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  I've talked about issues within the Queensland Police and that
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  is the leadership has no vision, there's no planning, there's no
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  risk assessments. He's the uncomfortable truth.
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  Australia does not do long term planning.
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  We don't do serious risk assessments.
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  We don't prepare for predictable crises.
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  We react, we scramble, we blame external forces, and then, and
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  then we act shocked when the consequences arrive.
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  Whether it's fires, floods, pandemics, supply chain failures
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  or fuel shortages, we always seem to be caught off guard.
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  This isn't bad luck. This is bad leadership.
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  Leadership requires foresight. Leadership requires courage.
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  Leadership requires the willingness to make hard
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  decisions before the crisis hits, not after.
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  And that's what we are missing. Now let's bring this back to
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  Scripture because the Bible speaks directly to this moment.
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  The Bible warns repeatedly about deception, false assurances, and
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  the misuse of power. It tells us to be discerning, to
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  test everything, and to avoid being swept up in fear.
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  And then there's the verse that cuts right through the heart of
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  this entire issue in Second Timothy 17.
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  It says God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power,
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  love, and a sound mind. Fear does not come from God.
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  Manipulation does not come from God.
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  Confusion does not come from God.
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  A sound mind, clarity, discernment, truth, That's what
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  God gives. And that's exactly what
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  governments and media try to take away when they rely on
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  crisis narratives to control public behaviour.
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  Because a fearful population is easy to manage, but a discerning
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  population is impossible to manipulate.
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  So when you see national addresses framed around fear,
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  when you see governments warning about misinformation, when you
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  see media amplifying crisis after crisis, when you see
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  leadership that reacts instead of preparing, recognize the
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  pattern. This is soft totalitarianism.
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  This is the manufactured crisis machine.
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  This is how modern societies are controlled, not by force, but by
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  fear. And the only antidote is truth,
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  courage, and a sound mind. As always, this is just my
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  opinion. I'm Jay Fallon, and thanks for
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  listening to the Slippery Slope Podcast.
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  They just feel the decide they will take me higher.
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  I'm on fire because nothing's going to bring me down.
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  Nothing's going to bring me down and nothing's going to stop me
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  now. And no one deals to be there and
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  sound on the slow. Just stand on me and nothing's
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  going to stop without me now. And nothing's going to hold me
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  down. Got my eye on the eyes, got my
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  style and teams don't say nothing's going to nothing's
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  going to stop me. Nothing's going to stop me now.