Your freedom is a big deal, the biggest one of them all. From Todd Hayen at off-guardian.org:
Another thing you hear all the time from the sheep grazing complacently on the other side of the hill is, “It just isn’t that big of a deal,” or “It just won’t get to that,” or “Why do you always think the worst of everything?”.
Funny how the same people can be utterly convinced that their own pet catastrophes—Trump returning to power, climate change, systemic racism, white supremacy, overpopulation, or the rise of the far right—are existential threats that will end life as we know it unless we surrender every freedom immediately to stop them. But mention digital IDs, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), vaccine passports, social credit systems, or the creeping transhumanist agenda, and suddenly you’re the paranoid one wearing a tinfoil hat.
Big catastrophes do happen. History is littered with them.
The sheep know this on some level; they’re terrified of asteroids, super-volcanoes, or a rogue AI cooked up by some evil billionaire. But if a real catastrophe does strike, it will never—NEVER—be the one the rest of us warned about. It will always be the one the agenda designated as the emergency du jour: a new “variant,” a cyber-attack blamed on Russia or Iran, a false-flag “domestic terrorist” event, or some completely fabricated crisis accompanied by wall-to-wall AI-generated footage so convincing that even the skeptics will pause for a second.
You’re in boutique times if those are the problems.