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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 18, 2022

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I want to get my thoughts on the future of totalitarianism/collectivism in order, given new or improved technologies and social technologies and other tendencies that are currently coming. I suppose I could phrase the question as "will humanity as a whole adopt new forms of social organization, and will they be abhorrent to me?". Some trends that I suspect could become worse:

  • People being increasingly online, divorced from their physical surroundings, anonymized and atomized and drowned in useless information.

  • The dilution and possible disappearance of western nations and their complete replacement by cosmopolitan societies-of-convenience.

  • The further domestication of man through urbanization, infantilization, safetyism, the elimination of the private sphere, micromanagement of the economy, complete surveillance and tracking.

  • Declining standards of living in the west due to economic inefficiencies, state mismanagement and plain old decadence, and how people will adjust or be adjusted to them.

What does the future hold in store?