2026-05-19
Will the doors on the global panopticon ever need to slam shut?
Are we not already comfily ensconced in our own virtual reality paradigm, automatically entertained by our YouTubers of choice brought to our attention by the ever-obliging System? The System that seemingly effortlessly, even magically, knows what we want before we ourselves have realised it?
Hmmm.
Sofia Karstens writing for the Brownstone Institute thinks that we are a long way down that road already.
But it's not the collective we as a group, it's the we of separate individuals acting individually ... and that difference is critical, because humanity isn't a bunch of separated individuals, it's individuals acting as individuals, as groups, as associates, as parts of larger wholes that form spontaneously to achieve objectives larger than any one individual could even envisage, let alone complete.
But if we can only associate with others via the system (and we are almost there already) then the system can prevent us from seeing potential associates and thereby limit our possibilities to those of which it approves.
Is there a way back out from inner?
