Great overview Logan.

When the quest for truth and reason is abandoned, when the concept of free will and individual sovereign decisionmaking is replaced by determinism and the belief that humans are merely a sum of their inputs, the logical outcome is an ideology that values power over truth.

Those that believe that they cannot change the minds of others via truthful argumentation will arrive at the conclusion that the power to set the standards is the only method of attaining ethical behaviors; via nudging and programming.

CBDCs and social credit scores is the logical destination of determinism, since there is an inherent assumption that the only realization of ethical behaviors is an external re-programming with values and ideals that have been stamped by the bureau as correct and appropriate.

Political correctness emerged as an assumed path to an ideological paradise where all injustices are believed to be conquered, if only, and this minor detail aside, if only everyone accept and practice the enlightened re-programming of political correctness, communicated by central planners and received at the mountain of higher wisdom, to achieve this necessary utopia.

Central planning being the root of totalitarianism didn't stop this quest for absolute power, perhaps because the imagined worst case alternative was the absolute power of some other group with a worse ideological framing.

Yet now we are witnessing the emergence of decentralization as a potent force involving game theory mechanics.

Property rights for all could suddenly be attained at a protocol level. Jurisdictions will now have to compete for capital and resources by providing and securing individual liberties.

The game has changed in favor of allowing liberty, private property rights, sovereign individuals and the decentralized quest for truth to emerge as a greater movement.

The future is determined by individuals, not by a centrally planned utopia designed by committees. A world where all risks are eliminated is an existence where all liberties have been dismantled.

Give me a life of risk and infinite possibilities rather than a prison of bureaucratic intentions.