Freedom Train

Friday, December 13, 2024 - 12:05 Get procreating before you can't afford it

The social credit system being developed by the Chinese government has been many years in the making. What nobody will openly admit, is that the Chinese government are far from the only organisation that is focused on such a totalitarian mechanism. For decades, if not centuries or millennia, there have been dynastic interest groups pursuing a similar goal. Those groups claiming that their provenance extends 7000 years into Egyptian antiquity are on the exact same page as the fifty year planners of Guangzhou.

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 - 14:49 The illusion of an ongoing conflict between the corrupt and the inept.

With the recent passing of the Online Safety Act 2023, the UK has aligned itself with totalitarian regimes when it comes to policing their populations use of the internet. The only countries with more invasive policies are not considered as democracies. However the far reaching regulatory moves have a hidden agenda.

Thursday, June 8, 2023 - 12:34 Expansion as a strategy creates systemic vulnerability

Many empires have grown quickly through a steadfast dedication to the expansionist philosophy. Exporting an agreed set of rules and economic conditions has proved successful for civilisations throughout history. Unfortunately for every single one of them, expansionism (by it's very nature) is doomed to fail.