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“Fifteen-minute cities are just a right wing conspiracy theory but they are good for your health and mental well-being, so you are stuck with them.”
Goebbels would be so proud.
The left wants to treat the public as serfs, tied to the land and not able move off it without the express permission of our lords and masters.
Fifteen minute cities are a good thing but a conspiracy theory all at the same time. Totally gloss over the concern being expressed by the protesters that they will become a mechanism of control but targeting the fringe elements of the protesters and views they hold that are unrelated to fifteen minute cities.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just suggest checks on power that stop 15 minute cities becoming a mechanism of control?
Again, it’s the physicalists… the medical establishment – Public Health – pushing for more and more control.
Bio of one of the authors:
Lance is a Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child where he explores children’s (0-8 years) experiences with digital technology and play based learning. Lance has a background in public health research and completed his PhD in Human Geography in 2022. His PhD explored the lived experience of cyclists in Wollongong and draws on feminist corporeal scholarship.
https://theconversation.com/profiles/lance-barrie-13529
The “Digital Child”? “Human Geography”? “Feminist Corporeal scholarship”?
“The lived experience of cyclists in Wollongong”… it’s “finger-on-the-pulse-of-the-universe” stuff.
Yep. It’s all “conspiracy theory”.
All about 20-minute neighbourhoods
Learn about what makes a 20-minute neighbourhood and why we need them
https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/policy-and-strategy/planning-for-melbourne/plan-melbourne/20-minute-neighbourhood/all-about-20-minute-neighbourhoods
If you believe there could be anything nefarious about “x-minute” cities, as the potential latest in an ever-lengthening list of nefarious conduct by gubmnts and their conga-lines of “advisers”, then you’re obviously a “crackpot”.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/inside-the-unhinged-15minute-city-conspiracy-theory-sucking-in-gullible-australians/news-story/41e599d1686d954234e8198e24c22151
Lance is a Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child
“Centre of Excellence” has now become a common title in academic departments that substitutes for actual excellence. You want to do agenda-driven propaganda? Just slap “Centre of Excellence” somewhere in there.
The main “conspiracy”, not addressed in this article, is that we will be locked in them. I just hope mine has a good bug plant, you know, one with crickets rather than cockroaches.
They care about mental health?
They promote it as cosy, but I see people “locked in”.
“The lived experience of cyclists in Wollongong”… it’s “finger-on-the-pulse-of-the-universe” stuff.
From The [One-Sided] Conversation link
… where every square metre is considered for its potential to improve health and wellbeing.
These PH peeps actually believe they’ve got everything figured out (“god complex”) and that they should rule the world, controlling every square metre… for your “good”, of course. 🙂
The main “conspiracy”, not addressed in this article, is that we will be locked in them. I just hope mine has a good bug plant, you know, one with crickets rather than cockroaches.
We shouldn’t be so cynical. These are apparently well-meaning tyrants. If they’re going to feed people bugs, we can be sure they’ll be top-shelf bugs. 🙂
Remarkable isn’t it? ‘Mental health’ is such a crisis in modern society, that it is even a factor in city planning! This despite the fact that most of the real problems our ancestors had to deal with, have all been solved. We have gone from resilient hard-arses to sooky snow flakes. Sad and embarrassing.
Whenever the prole media does a full court press against some ‘conspiracy theory’ or another, then be 100% certain that’s where the battle is going to be over the next five years.
In this acreage-heavy LGA – they’re putting up a vast network of creepy surveillance towers with clusters of large bulbous cameras pointing every which way in every corner and location in the place – even out of town.
All with facial recognition and number plate recognition technology built in they excitedly tell us.
They also declared that there would be no new development in the LGA – only infilling to make 200sqm dog box ghettos that are springing up everywhere the norm.
All this is definitely not going to be used for lockdowns 2.0 “nudge” edition in the near future.
I was thinking of facial recognition today in the car.
It occurred to me that most Australians have become hollowed-out Winston Smiths with no abiding values whatsoever. All of a sudden, it just became a thing: ‘we’re facially mapping and tagging you at Bunnings, in your car, everywhere.’ Not a word from Peter Dutton – remember, he has always been against privacy, encryption etc – and not a word from anyone else.
Who says you’ll be allowed to own let alone drive a car?
Yes, the unsaid part appears to be the likelihood that it’s just simpler to outright ban private ownership of vehicles and greatly restrict air travel to a tiny elite than it is to transition to ‘net zero’ transportation. Changing trucking arrangements might throw a stick in the spokes but we all know they’ll just lie about the things that don’t meet the actuality of what they are proposing.
The combination of
– the Internet of Things (internet-enabled cameras, meters, detectors, cars, fridges etc)
– Big Data (cheap mass data collection, storage and analysis)
– Artificial Intelligence (automation of pattern identification, predictive capabilities)
– Digital Identity (track, trace, consorting etc)
– the mass and ubiquitous connectivity network (enabled by 5G for example)
is a wet dream for the elite, as an overall instrument of control and coercion.
Each element is clever and can be applied to “the useful and the good” however if you have some knowledge of human history, and point out the dark side (to which such technologies will inevitably be applied) then you are labeled a tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theory far right extremist nutter.
If it can happen, it will happen. It’s an opportunity too tempting for it not to.
One of the key limiters of the 15 minute city is the availability of employment opportunities.
While I suspect that many of the exponents are in the laptop class, , where will the others work? Oh, that’s right, they can be servants of the elite.
And those not needed as servants will get their Soma.
How will that angle work in the future with the dob in your neighbour mentality, crazed vaxx-n-mask Karens, pseudo police state, no money, no car, divide and rule politics and no privacy whatsoever?
Probably have a new pill to take in-between the daily ration of a quart of vodka and microdosing on eBay.
I imagine that would be ‘jeez, it used to be nice around here before that corrupt council sold out and apartments went up everywhere.’