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Luc Lelievre's avatar

Anthropological realities impose enduring limits on projects of total control. Human beings are not fully reducible to data, algorithms, or administrative categories. They persistently need dignity, meaning, autonomy, and recognition. When these needs are systematically compressed, tensions often accumulate rather than dissipate. History suggests that highly rigid systems eventually encounter resistance, adaptation, or unintended consequences that exceed their designers' expectations. Technology may expand the capacities of surveillance and coordination, but it does not eliminate the fundamental unpredictability of human beings. The prospect of a fully administered "Prison Planet" may appear plausible in the short term; from an anthropological perspective, however, it remains a hazardous illusion for those who seek to build it.

https://www.thenewera.uk/p/when-truth-drifts

https://mises.org/mises-wire/ruling-class-wants-you-think-central-planning-inevitable

P.S. No worries, I’ll go ahead and order a copy!

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Beautifully written, Vera. Allow me to add that Klaus Schwab, like most monsters, never have/had original thoughts. They plagiarize. As did Schwab with " You will own nothing , have no privacy and be happy"

It was taken from Aldous Huxley's 1961 speaking engagement at UC Berkeley. He warned the attendees of the "plan", endgame and how it was being brought about , the " cabal of elites" and " organizations".

He was very explicit. Propaganda, manipulation,technology, psychotropic meds, gene editing , created " catastrophic" events/ war, pandemics. weather, mass migration" and so on.

He said, " You will own nothing , have no privacy, be medicated and love your servitude"

In 1962, just after Brave New World Revisited was published, he sat for one of his last recorded interviews.

The French journalist read the book and was curious about the inspiration. Had Huxley gotten past his paranoid vision of a dystopian future? He immediately answered that he hadn't. His worst nightmare was realized. Brave New World, his sardonic social criticism meant to warn of what can happen when ideas that appear well intended are hijacked by those with an insatiable hunger for power, wealth and control- the elite ruling class.

Brave New World had served as the playbook... He was sick with worry and guilt. And nobody listened

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