This is literally the pushback had against the NWO has always been for me. Growing up in the 80s and 90s I was fascinated with cyberpunk in culture, ideas etc.

This is literally the pushback had against the NWO has always been for me. Growing up in the 80s and 90s I was fascinated with cyberpunk in culture, ideas etc. I knew that’s where the future was going to be - but being young and naive, it was always “it would so cool if...” Playing cyberpunk games, etc got me into computers. I suspect that sort of techno-curiosity and infatuation with tech is what brought many of us to the industry. I’ve helped build tracking and spying systems my whole career under the guise of “data” That dystopian reality of every single thing you do, see, seek has spread like a cancer into every aspect of our lives. Heck, there are even stories (I haven’t confirmed their veracity) of people being attacked by governments for attempting to be totally off grid. It is completely impossible to detach from the system. —— I recall when we used to talk about Eschelon in the 80s and 90s and nobody believe our crackpot conspiracy theories then. But now the we are many generations beyond the original Eschelon, it’s been hyper-normalized, and there is nothing you can do about it, because-fuck-you-that$-why So, I don’t have any “whataboutism” - many brilliant minds have been exploited for authoritarian profits, and you can’t escape the world we have all worked to create through evolving technology.