Another consideration is that we should also be studying the psychology of implementing martial law via a crisis.
Sales people use it by creating urgency in their product, it's a part of our individual conditioning and also our collective conditioning.
How blind even the smartest people are to see what they are actually doing by writing articles such as the one you comment on.
I once mentioned in a post how the government actions in recent months to force people to stay home and not work is a form of martial law, and someone protested on grounds of a total definition of martial law.
And yet, martial law in action regardless of motivation forms the conditioning that normalizes a habit.
So while the habit of martial law is normalized within culture using COVID-19, and the would-be protestors of martial law sit back in their seats of specificity believing all is well - the world is conditioned to a different mode of society - so the actual switch to martial law by action AND definition becomes an easy transition for the unconscious human.
It's the whole frog-slowly-boiling-in-water thingy.
As a general whole, individuals need to be more aware about how information is seeded and propagated in the group mind, and in this how our habits develop into culture, and how this acts as an psychological fence guiding our actions.
It is hard to look at the ugly truth, but it is obvious once it is seen.
Sometimes I wonder if this many people that behave as a group yet claim to be individuals (the belief system called 'individuality') are actually redeemable.
Some of us have hope, others don't. Which side of the fence do you stand on? The hope side? Or the let-the-world-slide-if-this-is-what it-wishes-to-do side?
The Hope side consists of the ideal philosophy that enough people will stand up and behave as individuals in time to stop the full control of a full blown totalitarian culture. It's very optimistic considering how unconscious the actions of the human behaving as a group prove to be time and time again.
Another angle yet again is that we fight fire with fire. Those that are aware of the group mind and its tendencies direct smaller groups in cells. Groups of not quite yet fully aware individuals, yet on their way to getting there and still requiring some form of cohesive group with leadership to move themselves.
Some protest this angle because it does not respect the individual and allow full individual conscious decision making - but it also acknowledges the ugly truth that too many are still not aware nor ready to be aware to the capacity of full self-responsibility.
It's a dangerous game of invisible hierarchies.
So many claim awareness in this supermarket spirituality world of modern western individualism. How many realize that so few of us live true to this definition? How many so easily fold to authority and 'approved experts' when the chord of urgency is struck?
Hope anyone?
The article may as well just read - "I support a totalitarian state, join me!"
Maybe if I put glasses on like in 'They live' I can see it. haha