It’s wishful thinking that humans could somehow shift their essential being to some digital frontier independent of crufty “old world” governments. That’s not

It’s wishful thinking that humans could somehow shift their essential being to some digital frontier independent of crufty “old world” governments. That’s not how power works. We are still earthly beings bound to place, and thus subject to governmental power backed by physical force. Call me when we can digitize consciousness, until then this is just a daydream.