The 15-Minute City is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk or bike ride from any point in the city. This approach aims to reduce car dependency, promote healthy and sustainable living, and improve well-being and quality of life of city dwellers. The concept has been described as a “return to a local way of life”. (Wikipedia).
The 15-Minute City is utopian in its design. Unfortunately, to maintain it, there will necessarily be restrictions on the freedoms of its inhabitants. Among the potential restrictions proposed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) are items like a social credit system, the elimination of ownership, a new type of currency, and a great global socialist designed reset.
The communist Chinese government already employs a social credit system. If a Chinese subject of government does positive things in society, he or she is rewarded with a variety of perks. For example, access to better education and employment. Conversely, if a person is a problem to the Chinese government, that person and their family can and will be punished severely.
The WEF has been quoted as saying “You will own nothing and be happy.” Everything, clothing, shelter, and food will either be provided or rented. Among the most draconian aspects of “no ownership” is that fashion is eliminated in favor of “Mao” suits for everyone. There will be limits on the amount of food that can be consumed, particularly meat and high-value foods. Leaving the 15-Minute City is problematic as well.
Already, activities are underway to eliminate the current type of money in favor of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), a digital form of fiat money. The concern here is that this leads to the government having complete access to everything bought by the individual. Thus, the government can control what is purchased or sold. For example, no individual can buy ammunition or sell a gun without the permission of the government. (The government can even impact charitable giving. Giving to unapproved charities on GIVESENDGO could expose an individual to government repression as has happened in the Canadian Trucker strike.)
The great reset is the brainchild of the World Economic Forum in response to the COVID panic. The stated aim is to rebuild the world in a way that prioritizes sustainable development using environmental, social,f and government (ESG) metrics. Exactly how this would impact the 15-Minute City concept is undefined, but the concern is that it would eventually lead to government repression of a particular 15-Minute City similar to what happened to the most poverty stricken Districts in the “Hunger Games” movies.
Throughout history, utopian ideas associated with humanity have risen and fallen, doing great damage as they fail. The 15-Minute City is a Utopian illusion, a Potemkin Village of lies, that quickly breaks down in the face of ever changing realities. (Humans aren’t robots, they tend to be contrarian and difficult to control even when they agree on things. And, of course, there is crime, corruption and decay.)
So far, the greatest advances in humanity haven’t come from more control but from more freedom. The 15-Minute City is ultimately a contradiction to the freedom of the individual.
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The CEO of Worldcoin has warned that a global digital ID system will be ushered in for citizens around the world whether they “like it or not.”
Worldcoin has developed a system that it pitches as “the world’s largest identity and financial public network.”
Essentially, the company has created a database that links digital cash, or Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), with a digital identity system.
The company has created its own form of digital money called the Worldcoin token (WLD).
Linked to WLD is another of Worldcoin’s products – World ID.
World ID is a digital identity system that collects biometric data for individuals and holds it in a database that links to WLD transactions.
WLD and World ID are connected and accessed via the company’s World App.
When it’s all in place and no longer “voluntary,” these technologies will be used to create and enforce 15-minute cities, says Christine Anderson, a member of the E.U. Parliament from Germany. Watch here as Anderson describes how it will work.
World App is “an app that enables payment, purchases, and transfers globally using digital assets and traditional currencies,” according to Worldcoin.
People who voluntarily surrender their biometric data receive “small sums” in Worldcoin’s tokens in return for signing up for the World ID scheme.
The WEF is Plato’s oligarchy applied to every person in the world. It is totalitarian in concept and application. The horrors suggested above scratch the surface of what will happen if these utopian ideas are imposed.
The BOS has approved the Rivana development near the Innovation Metrorail station. Though not a 15-minute city, I thought it might be a step in that direction. A car is still required, but I don’t know if there is very much parking. It is very high density. The 2,719 residences are to be rental unless a hotel has sold units. I do know the Great Reset frowns on land ownership except for its chosen elitists. Of course, Metrorail could use more riders.
The Great Reset (also known as Technocracy, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, UN’s Agenda 21 or 2030) must be stopped.
Full implementation of the 15 minute city will mean you have to have a passport to leave it. Already there are proposals for vaccine passports and it is only a small step to change a vaccine passport into an environmental climate control passport. Try vacationing on a beach or in the mountains if your application for a passport visa isn’t accepted. Quite draconian control over movement.
It won’t work. As I inferred from the author, this concept is a demotivator, not an improvement. We have already seen our Gov’t using tech to control information, and key aspects of our lives. It has embittered us.
Most all transactions, in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) cities and much of suburbs to even extend to rural areas, are using a WeChat submodule. That is transferring money from one bank account to anther using cell phones as the medium for transfer. And during the Covid lockdowns in PRC, people were tracked for what they bought, and it was limited. Some got creative and made a bartering submarket, often with old-fashioned cash – Renminbi (RMB). Nonetheless, the fear was there – “be mindful of what is bought with WeChat.” As today every RMB transfer in the PRC is tracked…
The way people excel is to believe that they can keep what they make, and they can consume all and any of what they can afford to buy. When using controls to take that away, people will either become some degree of despondence or cheat the Gov’t system. Ummm, like the PRC.