I have some thoughts coming to anons from AsiaPac on a Tuesday afternoon. Take no offense for the choices I have made, but hear me.
There are certain maxims in life, and one of them is that Big Government is not your friend. There will come a point sooner or later when they cross a line that you can no longer bear. We joke about the boiling frog analogy, even as we watch year after year and decade after decade slip by. Fewer and fewer freedoms, greater and greater offenses committed by our Overlords. Most people hate it, but they subconsciously recognize there is a balance they can sustain. In exchange for law & order, high salaries, and equal opportunity, we convince ourselves that certain offenses are the price that must be paid.
Before you know it, as we have seen, they are rolling out plans to force vaccinate you and put you in camps. We didn't just arrive at transhuamist technocracy overnight…this has been going on for 100 years at least. For me the tipping point came years ago, when I realized that I as an American had far fewer actual freedoms than many other places. It starts with passport control, tax jurisdictions, surveillance, and it never ends. They take it as far as they possibly can until the next technology enables them to take it farther. I really don't even anticipate this changing when Trump returns.
This is not a down-America post, but more like a Questioning-Western-Civilization post. There are so many places to live on this planet….many of which are too poor to fund Big Government. For those of us who grew up in a 5-Eyes umbrella, it can be quite disconcerting to consider even GOING to places outside the bubble. Mexico, for instance. Most people are scared to death to travel there. Cuba, for another. Name your non-1st world nation, and most people are inherently squeamish about it. They may visit VietNam, but they would never live there.
But I am here to tell you that many of these countries have a lot to offer. No Police State for one. No digital tracking culture, for another. No traffic cams, no facial recognition. Most transactions being cash-based, most forms being actual physical paper rather than digital. I'm not saying these places don't have drawbacks, because they do. But I am saying the amount of 1st world convenience and security anon has given up in exchange for freedom has been worth it. Maybe I am a little different than most. But I suspect deep within most of us is a similar yearning to live free. Where I live we put up with corrupt police, a certain amount of dirty public conditions, and they don't treat animals very nicely. On the other hand we get to eat all locally grown food, and no one ever said shit to me about not wearing a mask. When a rapist avoids jail time for a technicality, the victim's family makes sure that justice is done on the street. One of the most dangerous professions here is Politician, because they tend to get shot. We have rebels that live in the mountains. It keeps the government on their toes. As I said, I understand if this kind of life is not for everyone.