In the grand civic harvest, this polite annual ritual in which the regime tallies its legitimacy, the individual is not a reasoning creature but a unit of extraction. Officially a citizen, but functionally just a resource used by the system for attention, emotion, compliance, and finally the vote. Democracy at scale is a system primarily…
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Colluding Crime Syndicate
The world as we know it is increasingly moving away from being an interconnected web of nation-states, with citizens at the heart of the decision-making process, towards a network dominated by powerful organizations. This network of institutions, including governments, multinational corporations, media conglomerates, law enforcement agencies, and militaries, to name but a few, has managed…