Absolutely worth reading the whole post! I think we don't need to go that far into the conspiracy theories to find the roots of the problems of the society.
Its incredible that in the past decade technology grew like no other age in the history of mankind but yet the political and economical structures haven't muted in over a century.
At some point it could be necessary a ruling state because the lack of traffic of information made impossible to a community to reach consensus about the institutions
that society will live in. But today, specially with a tool named Distributed Ledger technology, the whole people can take the power back. Governments does NOT need to have the economic power, intervention makes ANY market inefficient and people need to be aware of that.
Until we create a mesh network separate from the Internet, we should tread lightly. Remember who controls the current network we use to write these posts, distributed or encrypted or not. ;-)
Well said finnian. And indeed we need to get independent MESH Wi-Fi services operating - somehow.....