How do we stop dystopian science-fiction movies coming true? Are we destined to be ruled by robots, and to relinquish our free will and creativity to artificial intelligence? Such questions are becoming more prescient as a global elite directs technology beyond human advancement towards technocratic tyranny.
A unified resistance is needed, and the hymn sheet from which people sing should be a rationale for preserving humanity as we know it.
Striving to awaken the general public to the totalitarian near future, I am one of a local team of volunteers regularly distributing The Light newspaper and displaying slogans on yellow boards. Some people ask what we are protesting about, having seen a medley of messages about cash, Net Zero, farming, censorship, militarism, geoengineering and digital surveillance.
A few hecklers call us conspiracy theorists, libertarian lunatics, or worse. It’s amazing how they perceive ‘keep cash’, ‘no farmers no food’ and ‘welfare not warfare’ as right-wing tropes. To anyone who cares to ask, we state our cause as ‘freedom’. Who could be against that? (actually, as the Covid-19 debacle showed, many people!)
Having seen through the Left versus Right paradigm as a theatrical device to divide and rule, I realise that freedom is a nebulous concept. For conservatives, it has become a rallying call against the tightening ratchet on expression of traditional or patriotic views.
For progressives, it means open borders and relief from ‘hate’. On the other hand, conservatives tended to support a hierarchical establishment (until the Cultural Marxists’ ‘long march through the institutions’), while progressives have become increasingly puritanical against anyone standing in their way.
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