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MUNCHY's avatar

I wonder if the idea is to break down national governments and replace them with city states like in ancient Greece? Of course, they will be smart cities and use blockchain technology to exploit humans as digital commodities.

"IF MAYORS RULED THE WORLD

After the publication of Dr. Barber’s “If Mayors Ruled the World” (2013), cities and urban experts began to discuss the idea of a global governance platform that harnessed the collective power of cities".

https://globalparliamentofmayors.org/about-us/

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That's interesting idea, it might be happening but what I see it would be hard for them and inefficient. They don't need to control cities as whole, I think they will create places or areas which are strategic importance for them as factories or office districts. Then they in case of threat use government forces or their own "commandos" or secret service to protect this strategic points and keep them running.

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Communities will police it for them! As Amitai Etzioni said, "individuals are

not free-standing agents, who make independent choices that their rational

deliberations led them to conclude will best serve their self-interest.

Communitarianism, drawing on sociology and social psychology, pointed out

that individuals are, as Aristotle put it, social animals. That meant that they have

bonds with others (e.g. family and community members) which affect their

preferences and choices".

Our choices will be monitored and bet on and exploited. We could be living in a smart city or elsewhere but if we are hooked up to the world wide web that won't matter very much. It will all add to the ant computer which is a military machine.

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We saw that during covid already. They can use the power of media, politics and convince people to turn against their own interest. Only thing what you need is money from outside. The thing for example here is that they already own most of the factories and supermarkets. With immigrants they can replace anyone who would show any signs of "local" loyalty. It´s already happening also if you work for this global corporations (as most of the current job disappeared) then you are even self-motivated to protect them and it´s easier to just say - those people are rednecks or fasist or something.

The thing how to avoid this is the language barrier - at least here. That´s reason why they also try to include Ukrainians as they are most "loyal" to global powers but they can learn language easily and infiltrate. But if you know the local language it´s hard for them to push and people still respond mostly to local born not the outsiders.

With the Internet - I think there should be for each country separate Internet. I know that currently the political leaders works for this global alliance but on local level, there has to be alternative infrastructure maintained only for the local Web. But it should probably be non-governmental and made from local groups - like separate network of trusted nodes.

Also there is possibility to protect your self with tools - I will probably write article about it next. Simply put to protect your privacy you have to switch from Google, Facebook, Microsoft to Brave Browser (Firefox), install Adblock (block cookies), use VPN like Proton VPN, use different e-mail provider like Proton Email or Proton Calendar. Then you have to on mobile if you use Android remove Google Account and use third-party application like from F-Droid or Aurora Store. Then they are not able to track you and manipulate so easily. Because they don´t know who you are. Of course Youtube, Instagram and others has to be considered that everything you upload there is scanned and marked as content which they can associate with you.

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