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[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

So one of the like, libertarian one world government conspiracies that came out of the 1970's was that the government wanted to document everything so that way they could feed it into a giant database and then arrest you for 'future-crime' and 'thought-crime'. It was one of their big pushes against welfare programs and other government services that 'documented free citizens', and they would argue that is why the government wanted everyone on welfare, so they could track us like the communists did to their people.

It's pretty quaint now, but those undercurrents are what powered dystopian sci-fi in the U.S. Most popular sci-fi in the U.S. is very wrapped up in libertarianism honestly.

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