We are at war, and we will be the war of tomorrow: The march toward totalitarianism began with the failure of Western democracies. The thought of facts by Hubert Marlin Elingui Jr.
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Editorial
We are at war, and we will be the war of tomorrow: The march toward totalitarianism began with the failure of Western democracies. The thought of facts by Hubert Marlin Elingui Jr.
Flashmag! Issue 166November 2025
We are at war, and we will be the war of tomorrow. These statements appear identical but are in fact very contradictory, insofar as man, or rather humanity, is at war against the capitalist system of exploitation, and tomorrow, which bears the seeds of today, humans will be the war, losing their status as humans to become mere data, traceable like game in a forest of digital flows, and marketable like a servile commodity whose existence could end with a simple click.
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Democracy has not been destroyed. It has been sold out, slowly, methodically— through moral exhaustion, through constant contradiction, through a love of comfort more than truth. Its foundations have cracked under the weight of double standards: human rights invoked abroad, flouted at home; freedom brandished as a banner, traded for digital security; equality promised, buried under algorithms of merit and profitability.