Britain, the UK, or whatever you call it, is an Orwellian construct, based on lies, deceit & a regime of rewards & intimidation. And so too is every so-called #NationState, including, & most importantly, the USA.

This is the truth. Either we face up to it, or we perish.

Who do I mean by "we"?

I mean, our civilisation, which, because it is global, effectively embraces everyone on the planet. Many will survive, but many more will not, & many animal & plant species will be driven - are being driven - to extinction.
I'm not the only one who recognises the peril we're in, but I may be the only one who understands it well enough to offer advice on how to avoid our civilisation's self-destruction. My understanding is not perfect, but a lot better than that of people like #ElonMusk & #BillGates.
Reducing carbon emissions, to combat #ClimateChange, as important as it is, only addresses a SYMPTOM of the CANCER that is our grossly materialistic, mercenary, rapacious & DRIVEN global economy, which is inherently unsustainable on our finite, vulnerable & overpopulated planet.
ALL civilisations rise & fall. Ours is only exceptional in the size of its population, the heights to which it has risen, & the scale of devastation that will accompany its fall, which is fast approaching.
#ElonMusk & #BillGates, like so many others, are blinded by their own personal success.

Evolved human nature has a fatal tendency to admire "success" & POWER.

Alexander (the Great) has been admired throughout history, despite his role in the fall of Greek civilisation.
Will Bill Gates, I wonder, be admired by future generations, despite his role in the fall of Western civilisation?

The tragedy is that Bill Gates, like many other wealthy philanthropists, & unlike Alexander of Macedonia, means well.
It is the system & values which made him so "successful" that are destroying our civilisation, even now, as his & others' good intentions help pave the way to hell.

This is not something he would want to recognise, & none is so blind as they who will not see.
What is it about civilisation which causes it to rise & fall?

It lies in the nature of the STATE itself, which perverts & corrupts evolved human nature, so that instead of serving society (one's tribe) at large, it serves its elites, at the expense of society at large.
It's that simple & should be obvious to anyone with an evolutionary understanding of human origins, but, as I've already said, none is so blind as they who will not see.

The biologists #RichardDawkins & #DavidAttenborough should see it, but clearly don't. https://t.co/0ShaX2S2Mj
Like #BillGates, they are basically good, well-meaning individuals, blinded by their dependency on the system & values which facilitated & upholds their own personal success, at the expense of society at large & future generations.

Naturally, they're all loath to recognise this.
The system & values on which their success was built & is sustained are essentially British, although, Bill Gates would see them as American.

Either we change them - quickly - or Western civilisation will fall in the further course of this present century.
We can't change them by force, but must proceed peacefully, legally & grassroots-democratically.

To Britain's & America's credit, notwithstanding their essentially Orwellian nature, they allow us the freedoms to actually do this.

It's up to us.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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On Feb 22, I'm delivering a keynote address for the NISO Plus conference, "The day of the comet: what trustbusting means for digital manipulation."

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