Remember that the rise of feudalism in Europe (and in Japan, and probably

in China, but I'm not so well-versed) required the collapse of

the Roman urban world, linked and sustained for half a millennium by an extremely well developed and free-to-circulate network of roads.

They can't crush us under their boot unless they destroy long-distance social, economic or even family relations sustained by affordable flight, or affordable private transportation.

They need to enclose you in "15 minute cities" where your horizon doesn't go beyond as many kilometres as you can walk today, or wherever preordained point A to point B "public transportation" route, at the established time and not when you want or need.

Then, when you can no longer fly to another country, or drive a hundred miles, they will also make sure that the internet you get in your 15 minute ghetto is exactly the internet that they say, or rather the one that says what they say, and no other.

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