Every fight against the 2A makes it stronger. Courts expand carry, rulings harden rights, and bans fuel demand. What was ink on paper is now granite. Guns once came from Sears—today, every challenge deepens freedom. Crimes won’t be used to strip law-abiding Americans of what’s theirs.

Back in the day, surveillance meant manila folders and steel cabinets. Today it’s Denver & Utah data centers. Palantir + AI makes every marcher, chanter, or weekend protester a colored dot in the system. Masks and numbers don’t overwhelm—it all scales. Mud duck hunting gone digital.

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (Tom Wolfe) Wolfe skewers limousine liberals hosting Black Panthers in their Park Ave salons. Half satire, half anthropology, it’s a portrait of how elites flirt with radical chic while insulating themselves from real consequences. Still cuts sharp today.

The End of America (Naomi Wolf) Before “Trump fascism” was a meme, Wolf warned that Bush-era Patriot Act crackdowns, surveillance, and endless war bore eerie parallels to authoritarian playbooks. The book’s a time capsule of liberal fear—and a reminder the “fascism” panic didn’t start in 2016.

Moore’s Law killed file cabinets; cheap storage made the panopticon affordable. CCTV, body cams, sensors feed Utah/Denver farms where Palantir + AI scale like Google. The Stasi needed clerks—now it’s one engineer w/root. Every chant, march, tweet: forever.

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Moore’s Law killed file cabinets; cheap storage made the panopticon affordable. CCTV, body cams, sensors feed Utah/Denver farms where Palantir + AI scale like Google. The Stasi needed clerks—now it’s one engineer w/root. Every chant, march, tweet: forever.

Cheap storage made the panopticon affordable. Moore’s Law killed the file cabinet, but the real breakthrough was outsourcing human surveillance. CCTV, body cams, sensors feed into Denver/Utah data farms, where Palantir + AI scale like Google Search. The Stasi needed rooms of clerks; today it takes one engineer with root access. That’s why every chant, march, or tweet lives forever.

Don't I know it.

Back when storage was expensive, surveillance meant picking who to watch. Now terabytes cost pennies, so the state just watches everyone. Cheap data storage democratized the panopticon: every chant, march, or hashtag is affordable to log forever. Ironically, Moore’s Law made repression scalable.

Back when storage was costly, surveillance meant hard choices: who’s worth a folder, who isn’t. Moore’s Law crushed that scarcity—terabytes now cost pennies, so everyone’s worth logging. The bottleneck used to be human eyes; now CCTV, body cams, and AI (30 years ahead of what you see) automate the labor. Outsource the watchers, outsource the analysts, and suddenly the panopticon scales. Cheap storage didn’t just make repression affordable—it made it automatic.