I do have to wonder if the "data snatchers" from China (and elsewhere) aren't in cahoots (sharing/co-oping) with the "Deep State" in the US and other parts of the world?
It would be a great story: The "Worldwide One Party State" (Association of Elites) are doing their best to guarantee that data to manipulate the "lowly people" is available to whomever is in the best position, at any particular time, to squash any "anti-one-party-state" group by targeting it's "key players".
The various local elites are vying with each other for a "piece of the action", which SEEMS to appear to be the various countries preparing for a massive war.
They could, in fact, STILL be preparing for a "superficial war", and actually HAVE that kind of war, while they continue to cooperate, as they know that they will survive, along with the requisite number of "slaves" to operate their local post-war economies.
The apparent "fearlessness" of the "elites" throughout the world makes me rather suspicious that something "beneath the surface" may be going on.
But then again,.. my overly fertile imagination is probably in novelist mode, yet again, so.....
I'm not a believer in large scale "Illuminati"-esque theories, because they tend to violate the "Lowering IQ of Large Groups" principle ("large groups are stupid"), and elites tend to plateau in their desire for "yet more power" once their comfort levels reach a sufficient height,..
..but to make the story more interesting, it may be that some "unusual player/force" has entered the scene, and is "motivating" the elite groups to compete with each other for a better spot in "court".
I can't believe that actor is "the Chinese", because it's too obvious, and too good a red herring.
Perhaps the "odd" player is that group of elites that seems most "subdued and innocuous but quietly unafraid" is our "kingmaker/powerbroker/organizer"?
..or maybe it's just aliens?
In any case, I'm now on the lookout for strangely unafraid "really rich folks". Aloha gangies!
<shaka nui!>
I do have to wonder if the "data snatchers" from China (and elsewhere) aren't in cahoots (sharing/co-oping) with the "Deep State" in the US and other parts of the world?
It would be a great story: The "Worldwide One Party State" (Association of Elites) are doing their best to guarantee that data to manipulate the "lowly people" is available to whomever is in the best position, at any particular time, to squash any "anti-one-party-state" group by targeting it's "key players".
The various local elites are vying with each other for a "piece of the action", which SEEMS to appear to be the various countries preparing for a massive war.
They could, in fact, STILL be preparing for a "superficial war", and actually HAVE that kind of war, while they continue to cooperate, as they know that they will survive, along with the requisite number of "slaves" to operate their local post-war economies.
The apparent "fearlessness" of the "elites" throughout the world makes me rather suspicious that something "beneath the surface" may be going on.
But then again,.. my overly fertile imagination is probably in novelist mode, yet again, so.....
I'm not a believer in large scale "Illuminati"-esque theories, because they tend to violate the "Lowering IQ of Large Groups" principle ("large groups are stupid"), and elites tend to plateau in their desire for "yet more power" once their comfort levels reach a sufficient height,..
..but to make the story more interesting, it may be that some "unusual player/force" has entered the scene, and is "motivating" the elite groups to compete with each other for a better spot in "court".
I can't believe that actor is "the Chinese", because it's too obvious, and too good a red herring.
Perhaps the "odd" player is that group of elites that seems most "subdued and innocuous but quietly unafraid" is our "kingmaker/powerbroker/organizer"?
..or maybe it's just aliens?
In any case, I'm now on the lookout for strangely unafraid "really rich folks". Aloha gangies! :) <shaka nui!>