How COVID Taught Americans To LOVE The Boot On Their Necks! w/ James Corbett (Jimmy Dore)

Jimmy Dore interviews investigative journalist and Reportage author James Corbett about the nature of modern authoritarianism and how propaganda can make people willingly acquiesce to control. Corbett explains that the most dangerous form of tyranny is not enforced through violence, but through manipulation that convinces people their servitude is virtuous or beneficial.

The two discuss how public responses to COVID-19 mandates, censorship, and government overreach revealed a population conditioned to trust authority, regardless of evidence of misconduct. Corbett contrasts George Orwell’s “1984”-style oppression with Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” model, arguing that today’s control relies more on comfort, convenience, and propaganda than on overt force.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, November 4, 2025.]