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What does it feel like to constantly wake up to news that makes you feel like you belong to a bygone era and that the principles you had lived by and believed in for decades have become obsolete?
Millions, tens of millions, of us have realized that it had been a mirage. The ideals ingrained in us, the values we were raised on and learned at different stages of our lives, have become frail.
These are horrific times. The future we are promised is even more horrifying. As of tomorrow, all our private data will be accessible to the latest models of artificial intelligence; none of us will have any privacy left. There will be no more red lines for the tech oligarchs spying on us and freely using our data to serve their objectives or those of the intelligence-political apparatuses they serve.
Here we stand, powerless before a brutal, unelected clique that has effectively risen above the law, which now applies only to those who are too weak to defend themselves and “foreigners” who are perpetually threatened with arbitrary arrest or deportation on mere suspicions. Meanwhile, the two safeguards of justice have been made helpless or besieged.
