The New Bossism and the modern police state

Chapter 6: Installment 16 of The New Bossism of the American Left

Author’s note: For starters, I have begun a new substack (Mapping the Close Years, a substack of creative nonfiction and travel essays that is decidedly nonpolitical. For those interested, just click this link and subscribe for free—paying subscribers here are automatically paying subscribers there, but you have to opt-in because it won’t be of interest to everyone, but there it is for those interested. Today, some advice to this year’s graduates, a tribute to the great racehorse Secretariat, and a re-run of the 1973 Belmont Stakes.

For today’s post:

Yeah, the government likes to take your DNA upon arrest rather than conviction—an unreasonable search if ever there was one (as the late justice Antonin Scalia showed so well in his dissent in 2013 Maryland v King, the decision that allows DNA collection upon arrest). A unreasonable search, the better to surveil your past life. They also like having all your financial information within arm’s reach, the better to surveil your current life. When I wrote this chapter in 2015, we had not quite turned the corner to a federal digital currency, the better to dispense with surveillance altogether and just transition to total control over you. But that’s heading down the pike, too.

Also, just a reminder to new subscribers that this is the latest installment from my 2015 book The New Bossism of the American Left. I am serializing it because my forthcoming book, Globacracy: How a massive globalist bureaucracy is shaping a one-world state, builds upon this book.