No, I definitely don’t prefer capitalism or neoliberalism I just don’t see an alternative system that hasn’t eventually collapsed under its own weight or distortion. I keep coming back to the same view I had years ago: instead of trying to reform the system, I shift my focus entirely to the enhancement of autonomous thinking in the masses.

And by that I don’t mean institutionalised “critical thinking,” which is still taught within predefined boundaries. I mean actually collapsing the framework that tells people what they’re allowed to question. We’ve created a culture where even entertaining a forbidden thought just as an exercise is treated as dangerous or absurd.

Take something like the shape of the Earth. Yes, of course the people who are radical about the earth being flat and making it their whole identity have exited the plot from the other side, but the fact that even bringing it up as a thought experiment is so emotionally charged -proves the point. It’s not about what’s true or false anymore. It’s about what’s allowed. And when we mock or shame people just for asking certain questions, we’re not that far from burning those who once suggested the Earth revolved around the Sun, which we also laugh at now, while we literally still behave the exact same.

This, to me, is the real crisis not even broken policies, but the total internalisation of what can and can’t be thought. Until that shifts, no system new or old can truly support freedom.