Train Dodger

This is why they did it.

The rich believe that we consume too many natural resources, that most of us are a net drain on the economy. They have straight-up said, openly, that they don't need such a large population on Earth, except perhaps to pull data out of our bodies and sell it. This is what we're seeing, too. A rise in interest, among the Elite, in Smart Cities, Smart Watches, IoB, AR/MR/XR devices that gather physiological data from their users, and brain-computer interfaces. It's also why nobody ever seems to be able to figure out why anyone ever needs this tech, or what problem it's supposed to solve. The problem it's supposed to solve is people. The problem that the "smart" tech guys are trying to solve is how to make human beings into profitable commodities by siphoning out and selling our behavioral data, while also providing us with virtual embodiment as an alternative to actually living and consuming resources in the real world.

In the future that the Overclass want for us, not only will we live in micro-apartments in 15-minute cities, we won't have any reason to leave them, since we can just put VR goggles on and be anywhere in the world rather than wasting precious energy on travel and commuting. After that, BCIs will replace the goggles. If people want to be on the opposite end of the planet, or commute to work, then they'll simply sit down, close their eyes, and find themselves at their destination. Office space will disappear, utterly disused due to the advent of BCI-driven remote work in virtual worlds. It will be replaced with more residential space, instead. The home will be the center and the focus of basically all aspects of life. Even public transportation and intercontinental air travel will disappear because no one will need to physically move their body to travel anywhere any longer.

They are unironically making the world from Ready Player One into reality.

A decade back, I was indifferent to politics and sick of them impinging on my entertainment. Then, I went through a phase where I hated American politics and was actively against having any involvement with them whatsoever. Finally, I realized that what I really despised was how young people who should know better get so excited every couple of years to vote for senile, mumbling geriatrics who trip down stairs and soil their adult diapers.

Our foreign policy is set in stone by spy agencies whose employees commit thousands of serious felonies every year. Our economic policy is decided by supranational organizations whose members are appointed, not elected. Our wages and our futures are being pocketed by a central banker mafia accountable to no one, who treat us like cattle. The past twenty years of neoliberal foreign policy blob military interventionism labeled as the "War on Terror" - as if our fear was something physical that could be fought - was a disgrace that killed millions of innocent people while also simultaneously being painted by our press as a humanitarian mission.

Everyone with half a brain should know all of this, and yet, they still get up and vote for these old, decrepit, bloodthirsty, diaper-wearing crackheads.

Every time you hear the word democracy, just mentally substitute oligarchy. Everything makes so much more sense afterward. We need to protect our democracy? No, we need to protect our oligarchy. Local news is a danger to democracy? No, it's a danger to the oligarchy.

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable." - H. L. Mencken

Consider the arrogance of these people. Consider what the past 40 years have looked like.

• Iran-Contra
• Danny Casolaro being suicided
• Gary Webb being suicided
• DynCorp trafficking kids in Bosnia
• 9/11
• The Iraq war predicated on Colin Powell and Robert Kadlec's anthrax hoax
• The disastrous war in Afghanistan
• Wikileaks
• The Snowden Leaks
• The CIA torture report
• The CIA's arming of "moderate rebels" in Syria
• The Panama Papers
• Jeffrey Epstein suiciding himself in prison
• Ghislaine Maxwell being convicted for trafficking little kids to no one

After all of this, they have the temerity to whine that we're "undermining trust in institutions" with "fake news".