The ultra-wealthy are planning your future right now. They'll call it 'utopia' and sell it to you as such, but it's actually the opposite. Welcome to the first of a two-part series.
It doesn't matter if you are looking at the new utopian visions, the Great Reset, the 15 minute cities or any other of the repackaged drek. They are just trying to think up a new version of the old idea of company towns where they can sit back and extract resources and keep the plebs contained.
If you look at them, there is always a component of concessions that will be granted for running any business where at the very least, they will be able to set the rents. That allows them to extract money from any enterprise without the bother of actually running it and taking the risks.
Many are looking to the future, but not the future that you might think of at first. Take a look at the Middle East. Most of them are just living off the wealth that oil and gas provides. When that runs out, they are going to still be sitting in the middle of a desert but without any resources. They will still want the lavish lifestyles that has been being paid for with oil to continue.
They want to build a prison that is attractive enough to attract people to self incarcerate. You make it pretty enough that it doesn't look like a prison. That way you don't need to spend so much on guards. What do you think that the masses of people living in these places like the Middle East will do when they are starving and the elite no longer have the money to buy weapons to protect themselves? Places like Neom will be perfect to be able to lock down any dissidents. Just like the design of modern prisons, it is designed to be able manage a large population by restricting mobility with very small forces.
Thanks, nice post. I´m aware of the utterly dystopian ´15 minute cities´ from following events in the UK and have witnessed first hand the truly awful results of ´Low traffic neighborhoods´ in one London borough. A forest of surveillance cameras, streets turned into a labyrinth and traffic simply funelled off into poorer, working class areas. British philosopher John Gray wrote a good book all about utopias some years back. Pol Pot, Adolf, Stalin, Jim Jones all thought they were making a better world.
These modern manifestations are merely recycled ideas that naturally occur to people who are experiencing personal growth in isolation and lack the grounding in reality as you mentioned. I’ve had many encounters with these ideas and always reached the same conclusion.
It doesn't matter if you are looking at the new utopian visions, the Great Reset, the 15 minute cities or any other of the repackaged drek. They are just trying to think up a new version of the old idea of company towns where they can sit back and extract resources and keep the plebs contained.
If you look at them, there is always a component of concessions that will be granted for running any business where at the very least, they will be able to set the rents. That allows them to extract money from any enterprise without the bother of actually running it and taking the risks.
Many are looking to the future, but not the future that you might think of at first. Take a look at the Middle East. Most of them are just living off the wealth that oil and gas provides. When that runs out, they are going to still be sitting in the middle of a desert but without any resources. They will still want the lavish lifestyles that has been being paid for with oil to continue.
They want to build a prison that is attractive enough to attract people to self incarcerate. You make it pretty enough that it doesn't look like a prison. That way you don't need to spend so much on guards. What do you think that the masses of people living in these places like the Middle East will do when they are starving and the elite no longer have the money to buy weapons to protect themselves? Places like Neom will be perfect to be able to lock down any dissidents. Just like the design of modern prisons, it is designed to be able manage a large population by restricting mobility with very small forces.
Thanks, nice post. I´m aware of the utterly dystopian ´15 minute cities´ from following events in the UK and have witnessed first hand the truly awful results of ´Low traffic neighborhoods´ in one London borough. A forest of surveillance cameras, streets turned into a labyrinth and traffic simply funelled off into poorer, working class areas. British philosopher John Gray wrote a good book all about utopias some years back. Pol Pot, Adolf, Stalin, Jim Jones all thought they were making a better world.
These modern manifestations are merely recycled ideas that naturally occur to people who are experiencing personal growth in isolation and lack the grounding in reality as you mentioned. I’ve had many encounters with these ideas and always reached the same conclusion.