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Free speech is increasingly imperiled.

How do we fight back against the surveillance state and the erosion of our privacy?

Rules -based international order that was supposed to be central to Western democracies is crumbling.

Is there any hope for international human rights law or have we transitioned to a world where might makes right?

How do we navigate a tumultuous and overwhelming world without completely losing our minds?

From the cracks, techno-authoritarianism is rising.  

The state of the world is of course dire on every front: ecological; economic; political; moral; spiritual.

Worse, is that the people with the most influence in the world — the virtual oligarchy of governments, corporates, financiers, and their chosen intellectual and expert advisers — haven’t grasped the gravity of our plight, and don’t really want to, and are often in denial.

On the whole, they simply pursue their own agendas, according to their own established ideologies. 

AI now writes 90% of its own code.

Thus the policies that descend upon us from on high are not well-informed and well-directed — not wise — but are compounded largely of ignorance, hubris, self-interest, and bluff.

AI systems increasingly handle the execution layer of knowledge work — from software engineering to financial reporting — while humans shift toward oversight, judgment, and strategy.

It won’t be long before what constitutes democracy its self, will be written by AI.

There are already enough good ideas and thinking people out there to form a critical mass that really could turn the world around. All that’s really needed is a coherent philosophy to hold the whole endeavour together; that, and a little more coordination. 

For in reality, the officially warring superpowers were all on the same side, or at least were all playing the same game, which they all understood.

Their politicking and rhetoric was pure theatre, a perpetual, choreographed stalemate that created fear, and provided an excuse for martial law, and kept the superpowers’ rulers in the constant state of euphoria that comes with wealth and power. 

And doesn’t that describe the relationship between Trump’s USA, Putin’s Russia, and Xi Jinping’s China to a tee?

We have all witnessed Donald Trump arriving back after a visit to China, saying he secured some supper trade deals ( not agreed to on paper but on a handshake).

The power of the purses.

This is a prime example of power being given away to fuel greed.

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As the Daralama said to be born at all is a miracle.

He could be right as the old world order is currently being pushed by AI to drop its moral values for short term gains.

Jobs agains AI.

A warming world against renewable energy.

Drones against the might of standing armies.

Sovereign Funds against natural wealth.

The might of the $ against the yen.

To mention just a few of the conflicts in existence and to come.

The most dangerous now is the Middle East coming together to form a new block against Israel the country with no borders.

In the mean time we will see ChIna increase its pressure on TWIAN.

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Life is always imperfect; sometimes at a cost, though sometimes with reward; but nevertheless in real and significant ways.

We seem to inhabit a world that is more seriously troubled in more places than many can ever remember.

Politics commands little faith.

Ditto the media.

So the question is whether we can do something of the same kind now.

I know we must. I also think we can.

One of the most important is that it is better to cooperate on things on which you can agree than to focus on the things that divide you.

Historically, this is a huge lesson. 

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