We are not just watching governments and institutions fail, we are watching a mismatch between realities.
On one side sits the old world: centralized, hierarchical and opaque; a system that survived by controlling information, managing perception, hiding truth, and selling fake news. Closed-door summits, elite gatherings, corporate oligarchies and think tanks determining everyone’s future without consent. A world built on the assumption that reality could be curated from the top down. And for a very long time, it worked.
But now something entirely different has emerged; AI, decentralised networks, open ledgers and distributed communication have changed the game. These are systems that do not tolerate opacity, not out of ideology, but by design. These technologies process faster than lies can be maintained and connect dots faster than narratives can be patched.
What makes this moment feel so surreal is the speed of divergence between these two worlds.
The “Official World” is still behaving as if nothing fundamental has changed, still issuing statements, still staging consensus, still managing appearances, but the information layer of reality has already moved on. Truth now leaks sideways, not downward and at lighting speed.
The same power structures that spent decades and trillions building the most advanced information processing systems, have actually created something that cannot sustain hierarchy itself. You cannot maintain a system based on secrecy inside an environment that demands transparency. You cannot sustain lies when the cost of maintaining them exceeds the system’s capacity.
It is like building a perfect mirror and then being shocked when it reveals every crack in the room.
A centralized system functions like a single star, radiating power outward, deciding what is seen and what is not, but we have crossed into something more like a galaxy, countless nodes, interconnected, spreading information in all directions at once, ie no single point of control.
AI was meant to optimise markets, manage populations, and stabilise control, but in doing so, they created something structurally incompatible with a centralised hierarchy itself. And this is where many of us may need to reconsider our assumptions…
For a long time, it felt inevitable that advanced technology, and especially AI, would be used primarily as a tool of control, surveillance and digital compliance. That fear was not unfounded, it was rooted in history. Every previous technological leap was quickly absorbed by centralised power and turned against the population. But what if this time the very nature of these systems makes them unsuitable for sustaining the old model of control?
AI and decentralised networks do not reward secrecy; they amplify inconsistencies, they expose contradictions, and collapse time between cause and consequence.
The system we are leaving behind depended on friction, on delays, on information bottlenecks, on the assumption that most people would never see the whole picture at once. But the new systems are exposing and purging obscurity.
That is why everything feels out of sync and narratives feel delayed, forced and increasingly absurd.
What was designed to optimise predict and control, may end up destabilising centralised power by making reality harder to distort.
If control depended on darkness, then technology’s transparency is not a threat to humanity, it is a safeguard.
The old world is fading because reality has shifted, and control only works when people cannot see what is being done to them.
And paradoxically it might be the same technology meant to enslave us that is revealing the mechanisms of control.
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