"It does not matter whether this situation reflects planning on the part of a shadowy elite, or is emergent from the decline of your civilization. No matter whom you vote for, or what gloss your preferred candidate puts on these issues, nothing will change until you and enough of the people around you wake up to reality, and launch a campaign of consistent non-compliance with the antihuman trajectory that manipulative elites have set us upon.

It does not matter whether you label the centralizing ambitions of those elites as socialism, communism, technocracy, gobalism or fascism. It doesn’t matter whether you see them as reflecting philanthropic, criminal or satanic motives. The important thing about centralisation is that it absolutely requires censorship and comprehensive obliteration of rights and freedoms to persist, and that it is wholly incompatible with the flourishing of human beings...”

History doesn’t offer much hope. It seems always to have been the case that an inexorable rise in centralisation and the size of the state is solved only by systemic collapse. Given the fragility of the global system of supply chains and financing, that is a tough outcome to wish for, but it is a certain outcome. The problems of centralisation are never solved by the presence of more data or faster processing of it. The optimism I cling to is that humans are adept at solving problems, and the conditions of freedom under which knowledge generation can occur have not yet entirely been snuffed out." https://nickhudson.substack.com/p/what-everyone-should-know-about-mainstream