The Walls They’re Building Aren’t for Our Safety

Van Halen had a rule.

Their contract required a bowl of M&Ms backstage with all the brown ones removed. People thought they were just being divas. They weren't.

It was a safety check. If the band walked in and saw a brown M&M, they knew the promoter hadn't read the technical manual. Errors with one thing probably meant there were errors with other things. If they missed the candy, they probably missed the weight limits on the stage or the wiring for the pyrotechnics. One small error meant the whole show was dangerous.

Trust works the same way. When one big lie comes to light, you have to look at everything else.

Despite the pathetic lack of accountability, the Epstein files changed the calculus. What used to be dismissed as a niche conspiracy theory turned out to be a global system of trafficking involving people at the top. When a secret that large is proven true, the "mad" theories start to look plausible. What other huge lies are we being told? What else exists behind the curtain?

We see a pattern now. A group of powerful people shape the world to fit their needs. They tell the public to "move on" while they build doomsday bunkers in remote locations, private security forces, and tech replacements for human labor.

The amazing thing is they are building all this right in the open, and we're like, "nah, they cant really be planning for half of us to die, are they?"

Yes. The audacious goals of the elites are real. You better fucking believe it.

People often say the rich need us because we buy their products. That is a mistake. Much of the world's wealth circulates among the elites themselves. The real value of the masses has always been labor. But labor is changing. Wages are dropping toward the cost of a drone, automation handles production, and AI handles the thinking.

When a machine can plant a seed or write code for less than the cost of a human’s food and rent, the human becomes a liability. We become disposable pawns in a game we never wanted to play.

The future looks like Mumbai. You see billion-dollar towers standing right next to slums. One group lives behind high walls with every luxury. The other group lives in the dirt, a stone's throw away. An entire class is already considered disposable. There's nothing stopping this from happening to the rest of the world.

Indeed, the middle class is a 20th century flash in human history, ignited by plentiful, cheap energy. A temporary surplus that granted each of us thousands of invisible slaves, operating 24/7. With more than enough to go around, everyone feasted.

The convergence of crises is changing that rapidly. That house your adult child cant afford, food prices skyrocketing, corporate weaponization...those are symptoms of the weakening surge that lifted the tide. Mistaken, we attributed much of our wealth, comfort, success to ingenuity. We are told it's "immigrants" or "China" or internal "enemies" slowing us down. Meanwhile, they hide from view the fuel gauge, which is near empty.

Back to normal.

Many of our ancestors lived in societies with high concentration of wealth, resources and power. Most people couldn't afford much. What happens when we stop buying iPhones? Things will change, but Kings existed in societies with high Gini coefficients, just as they will in the future.

Perhaps the elite would prefer to turn every beggar into a customer. And perhaps if we all vanish some companies with their hands in the middle class pocketbook will go bust. But the oligarchs realize to prevent that, by maintaining and building the middle class, we need a few more planets worth of resources.

They won't tell us, but they see the same data we do and are moving into self-preservation mode. The revenge of Malthusian logic, temporarily sidelined by the Haber-Bosch process, leads to two possible outcomes: Tall guarded walls or 21st century Lebensraum.

We are moving toward a world where you are either inside the physical or virtual walls or outside of them. Those outside will be left to fight over scraps, pitted against scapegoats to protect systemic disparity.

It sounds like dystopian fiction, but its time we start believing what we are witnessing. They've laid bare their intentions, and we must stop disregarding logical ends as conspiracy theory.

The naked truth, while too painful to accept is also too dangerous to ignore.

Thank you for reading.

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