To be fair most people would be terrified to have an authentic opinion.  Which is how they get away with it (until they don't).

I do think there is a difference between our situation now and, say, communist USSR or other historical totalitarian regimes.  They seemed very much to be top-down, with the course of events predetermined by a high committee - as per agenda 2030 etc that you cite.

But I think things are different now.  The elites now gain their power from exploiting human herd dynamics - riding the waves of panic, fear and hate, pumping them up if they can - but not by creating the waves themselves which is much harder and more costly to them.

Eg whatever the origins of covid I cannot see how anyone could have forecast the total panic it caused - and the commensurately huge opportunity it gave to extend tyranny.

Where I live the government spent about 2 weeks literally saying covid was not a big deal, the most important thing was to keep going as normal.  Then they realized they'd be washed away unless they got on board with the wave of hysteria sweeping through the herd.

Which gives me great hope for humanity.  I think we evolved to have 95% of ppl simply want to follow - without any conception of good or bad, right or wrong, except doing whatever the herd was doing or told them to do.  You'd need that in a tribe that had to work together to kill food, resist other tribes etc.

But there have always been about 5% who are different, who think independently and are connected to reality outside the herd.  Most of the time these dissidents are persecuted and harassed but they are the ones from which all progress comes - and sooner or later the herd ends up following them.  By which I mean us!

For example I think we owe most of our traditions of western freedom (which are currently being eroded but which something happened to create in the first place) to the persecution of dissidents in europe in the 18th century.  The puritans had a continent to go to and build a new society based on freedom from that persecution - and created America.

I think a golden age is just around the corner - and bitcoin and nostr are the new continent where we can build a new world based on freedom.