Rachel Millward, "A handful of men control too much for the rest of us.. They are hoarding the world's wealth.. Polluting the planet and now trying to buy our democracy"
"That future looks so bleak that the likes of Peter Theil and Elon Musk intent to escape it altogether, to some post human upgrade or to another planet"
"Of course it suits the billionaires to distract and divide us"
"We've lost so much of our civic spaces: the price of that connecting cuppa is now the price of a lunch"
"And so we stay online in the illusion of connection"
"Constantly reenforcing feedback lopps, splintering what was left of society"
"And I can feel the rising panic, the despair of young people who tell me they are terrified"
"that they don't want to live in a future of climate wreckage, and fake everything"
"We don't want your post human reality, we want this world, the soil between our toes, the trees that give us shelter and shade, the food we grow with our own hands that tastes of the ground it comes from"
"And it might seem crazy, but friends, we have all the power we need. It's between us"
My view: Rachel Millward’s warning is not about technology alone. It is about power: who owns it, who profits from it, and who gets to decide what kind of future we live in.
While a tiny number hoard wealth, intensify climate breakdown and buy influence over politics and media, we are encouraged to blame one another instead of asking why so much is being taken from the many.
The answer is not a billionaire’s escape pod, a “post-human” upgrade, or a synthetic substitute for life. It is a fairer world with real community, affordable public spaces, clean air, living soil, secure homes and democracy that cannot be bought.
And that power is not imaginary. It is in the connections between us - when we organise, care for one another and refuse to be divided.