2.5. What the system is preparing for us

To defend itself against the potential of the internet, the system is waging a war against humanity. It doesn't work for the people but against them, to perpetuate its power and domination.

What will be the place of men in the society that the system is building? There will of course be a small elite that will be fed and protected by the system.

But at best, the rest of the population will live obese and sick in a "golden prison": "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy". In the worst case, we will experience impoverishment and enslavement. What will we do against a depopulation program, a recurring theme of the threat of global warming? What will be our means to debate transhumanism, AI, genetic manipulations, or environmental preservation strategies?

The worldview pushed by the system is pessimistic, selfish, ignorant of the needs and potentialities of humanity. Humanity is only in its beginnings, and yet we have already solved many problems, threats, and benefit from the experience of civilizations disappeared from our ancestors.

We must have confidence in the ingenuity of men and move forward. The technology that the system uses to oppress us can be the same technology that sets us free. It can propose a world order in the service of the people.

That's why we will now imagine a system based on the open, free and decentralized nature of the internet, which would put freedom and popular power at the heart of its concerns: [Software Democracy](La Démocratie Numérique).

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