Society
Jordan Peterson says China is building a Tolkien-like surveillance state
Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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"Saurin is sort of with his all-seeing eye. He's sort of the god of the totalitarian state, you know, and the Chinese communists are building the allseeing eye of Sauron."
Jordan Peterson argues that China’s government is building an all-seeing surveillance system, using Tolkien’s Sauron as a metaphor for totalitarian power. He says pervasive state monitoring expands when individuals fail to practise moral self-governance.
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