Brave New World

Brave New WorldWere in the midst of the greatest changes to our society and ourselves since the First Industrial Revolution nearly two centuries ago; but its to anything but the Brave New World weve been promised. On the contrary, were being inducted into a technological totalitarianism that will make those of the Twentieth Century look like crude prototypes in comparison. Unless we stop this now through civil disobedience to coronavirus programmes and regulations,

ÔWeÕre in the midst of the greatest changes to our society and ourselves since the First Industrial Revolution nearly two centuries ago; but itÕs to anything but the Brave New World weÕve been promised. On the contrary, weÕre being inducted into a technological totalitarianism that will make those of the Twentieth Century look like crude prototypes in comparison. Unless we stop this now Ñ through civil disobedience to coronavirus programmes and regulations, through resistance to their enforcement and normalisation, and ultimately through overthrowing and replacing the political system that has allowed this to happen Ñ the rest of our lives will be lived according to technologies of surveillance and control the like of which even now we canÕt imagine, and the lives of our children will be many times worse.Õ

This is the second collection of articles by Simon Elmer on the implementation of the UK biosecurity state behind the cloak of the coronavirus crisis, and looks at the expansion of its regulations, programmes and technologies through the winter of 2020-2021.

Individual articles examine the unlawful use of powers conferred by the Public Health Act; the role of UK intellectuals in in giving scientific legitimacy, intellectual credibility and practical implementation to this expansion; the scientists, universities, regulatory bodies, government departments, pharmaceutical companies and global investors behind the UK vaccination programme; the legislative contexts in which a programme of compulsory vaccination can be enforced as part of the ongoing attempts to pathologise non-compliance; the catastrophic effects of lockdown on the jobs, businesses, education, health and lives of UK citizens; the manufacturing of the coronavirus crisis through the use of statistics and the evidence for deaths caused by lockdown; and an attempt to answer the question of to what ends this is being done by situating this crisis within the context of a revolution in Western capitalism.

This collection is published by Architects for Social Housing on the cusp of the most important collective decision the population of the UK will make since the Second World War, which is how 68 million people respond individually to vaccination being made a condition of our citizenship, to be monitored through digital health passports that will control every aspect of our lives. We hope these articles will aid readers in resisting this irreversible step into a totalitarian future.