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Yep. Neoliberal “progressive” technocracy has overtaken and subsumed everything. Even people that I mostly disagree with can see that.

If this is progress, I want no part of it.

Now universities and corporations regulate their subject’s speech (even jokes), who they flirt with, who they date, and countless other minutia of daily life. They want us to interact like drones serving a giant machine, with humanity – and all its mistakes and wonders – squeezed out.

It bothers me that people are mostly fine with their lives being so tightly regulated — and most don’t even notice it. They think it’s natural, just the way things must be. The level of social control in the US truly isn’t that much different than in China. It’s just enforced differently. And yes, I do have direct experience with both countries.

When I say I have libertarian sympathies, this is what I mean: that people (not corporations) should have maximal freedom.

Even so-called liberals have been duped (and have duped themselves) with “protection from harm” justifications for removing essential freedoms, with the only real entities being protected nearly all of the time is corporations and their imperatives.

Beauty makes no profit, so we are told its wrong to care about it. But living in a drab world of featureless gray is not how humans flourish. It is unworkable long term, even if all you care about is profit.

I’m not sure what the future holds. But I am certain that so-called progressivism nor conservatism, or any other conventional contemporaneous ideology, holds any keys to it or will be the dominant one in 50 years time.