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Moorea Maguire's avatar

Terrific article! I think it's really important to name what we're against. The problem isn't 15-minute cities. The problem is the surveillance and government overreach. (Also, having sold my car in 2015, I appreciate livable cities. I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater).

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CocotteMinute's avatar

Very relevant… “nowhere to hide” !

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Many thanks for reposting Lawyer' Lisa's post.

{...collective effort, strategic planning, and the courage to stand against a system designed to suppress individual autonomy...} 🤔🤔🤔

- Collective effort: Everywhere, by any means, people are very successfully being slated against

each other to prevent this from happening, ever.

- Strategic planning: The current individuals strategic planning is restricted into getting to work

on-time, spend his/her hrs. with slave-work to make ends meet. No time for any strategy but to

think about where to get the next pack of cigarettes, petrol for the car, some junk-food, online shopping of newest gadgets and a little sex ... This is their current individual autonomy.

Only complete DE-centralization, that means: break-down of hierarchical mass-societies of totally interdependent people can prevent people from getting trapped into these open-air, Gaza-like prisons.

This is not for the feeble: It needs real courage, determination, resilience, patience, self-reliance, full autonomy and accountability for ones actions. All things abhorred in current mass-societies.

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CocotteMinute's avatar

True from the first to the last word...

But the wheel always ends up turning.

”The degree of suffering conditions the degree of change”...

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Just beware of "turning wheels"...

They may look fancy from afar, but are lethal if you get in their way.

{...The degree of suffering conditions the degree of change...} BINGO !!!

That's why, imho, only widespread, long-lasting famine of a colossal level, including all kinds of side-effects further decimating the populace will bring about any kind of paradigm-change that could be the harbinger of a more peaceful future for the masses ...

in a extremely small percentage of survivors ...

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CocotteMinute's avatar

Hope it won’t have to go so far, but this is most probable. Unless we all become a kind of remotely controlled zombies before... 🤖🤖🤖

So while we still are human(s) : never give up, etc ! ✊️

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Please, don't read my comments after 21:00, they could cause nightmares ...

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CocotteMinute's avatar

😅 Your comments are welcome 24/7 !

Maybe they are exactly what my contradictory spirit needs to give me an ”extra kick” to not take off the gloves ! 😉🫸🫷

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