Not far off reality. And it is palpable through another pathway that played out in real time, memeticly communicated as "the conspiracy you are suggesting isn't

Not far off reality. And it is palpable through another pathway that played out in real time, memeticly communicated as "the conspiracy you are suggesting isn't happening, but even if it did here's why it's a good thing" [1] which is precisely what happened in the UK regarding the 15 minute cities plans. Another point in regard to numerous things like this is that those who promote them do so largely undemocratically. They use issues that are seen as above politics (e.g. climate), then apply some very tenuous statistics that could be undermined by a child to promote them and apply them in ways that will have no measurable benefit to the vocal goal they articulated. Living in the middle of this new politics one gets a sense further that the goal is not stated. Tenuous evidence based policies are repeatedly implemented to erode people's standards of living and their ease of living. Preferring instead punishment and self flagellation from the citizenry. All with the more tangible side effect of extracting hundreds of millions of pounds from them. Not helped that local politics especially in the UK is fundamentally broken. People are voting on modern day religious grounds, not for policies, leaving a vocal minority of usually highly unempathetic and emotionally questionable people making impactful decisions about day to day life for millions of citizens. One also gets a sense of civil society as we have known it in the UK for a few hundred years of ending. The reasons are many and the actors motivations hard to articulate simply because all they want is to destroy that which currently exists; with no plan for that which replaces it [1] https://thecritic.co.uk/its-not-happening-and-thats-why-its-good/ https://thecritic.co.uk/its-not-happening-and-thats-why-its-...