Reflections of the Future [Part II]
 
 Techno-theocratic Corporatism
 
 The church of science has arrived. Obey the experts based on accreditation, not merit. Whoever buys the highest degree and jumps through the hoops, tows the line and signals the most virtue sits on the council that speaks to the congregation and keep the collection plate. Also a top down system of hierarchy, the technocratic theology has specialists of their field at the top, above even the political elite and often times part of the political caste themselves, and their word is taken as gospel. Below that is the corporate system with its own hierarchies that lobby for leverage politically, fed by consumers who also work for them, effectively living their lives as brand property with no time or resources to spend elsewhere even if they wanted to, escaping into virtual reality of varying degrees, meaningful community replaced completely with parasocial relationships, plugged in when they're off the clock. Beyond the consumer(middle) class is the poor, the homeless, those spit out by the system for not being lukewarm: the canceled. The wolves keep the sheep in line for scraps from the shepherd. In this system class mobility is directly related to financial wealth but on the condition of narrative adherence on pain of deplatforming and depersoning, a permanent drop into the canceled(untouchable) caste. How dare you contradict the saints of science? You must be a denier! Small business dies and machines replace more jobs every single day. Yet this is simply an illusion for keeping the debt slave caste under heel, as the laws and restrictions do no apply to the techno-clergy, slowly taking more and shaming property and rights away from the congregation, widening the gap and the debt for generations to come. You will own nothing. You will wear a mask. You will eat bugs. You will take the medicine. You will live in a pod. You will not drive a car. You will have no weapons.
 
 This is a soft power system with a monopoly on violence, armed with shaming, social ostracization and mobbing, fueled by virtue signaling inclusivity and tolerance of mental illness, passivity and deception. The Matriarchy.