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... Is the refrain we hear a million times a minute in the MSM and from their many and various acolytes and disciples. To which I have two responses...

#1 - Nothing... If it was 1950. In 1950 (the year my dad was born), most people, excepting for the exceptionally wealthy, pretty much lived in them anyway. My dad's case was fairly typical: born into a lower middle-class family in a suburb on the outskirts of London, his parents didn't have a car (nobody he knew did), and everyone walked or cycled everywhere. The local shops were about a mile away, but there wasn't a bus, so my grandmother walked there and back every day, because - prior to the wide availability of fridges - fresh food quickly went off and so had to be purchased daily. The children (my dad and his two younger sisters) walked to and from their primary school, which took about ten minutes each way, and it wasn't until they were secondary-school aged that they started to make any wide use of public transport. There was little need to before, because everything they needed - and, just as importantly, everyone they knew - lived within walking distance of their home.

So to tell this family, or any typical 1950s family, that they were now going to officially live in a "15-minute city" would have been met with blank stares and shrugs - so what? They effectively did anyway. With no car until many years later, and the prospect of a trip to another city a rarefied and very occasional treat (and the idea of foreign holidays, almost the stuff of science fiction), what difference would "official" 15-minute city diktats have made to them?

The point is, the world has transformed unrecognisably since then, and the idea of quaint and self-contained village-like idylls where "everyone knows everyone" and there's a genuine community life, has been dramatically undermined to the point of collapse almost everywhere. These days, it's unusual to even know the names of both sets of next-door-neighbours, never mind have the kind of close, involved, daily interactions that characterised most 1950s neighbourhoods. The reason the 'soap opera", centring around the minutiae of the daily lives of friends and neighbours in fictional communities, rapidly gained popularity in the decades subsequent to the 1950s, is that the local "soap operas" of our own lives, rapidly began to fall apart.

Since the 1950s, we've been aggressively encouraged to "think bigger", to leave our hometowns (as soon as possible) and spread our wings, with people who choose to build a life in the town where they were born often seen as small-minded failures. I don't live in the town where I was born and nor does a single person I grew up with, including family members, leaving me to feel, when I revisit my nominal hometown that - even though almost everyone I grew up with is still alive - it's now more like a ghost town.

This is not an unusual story. On the contrary: it's now more the norm, and most people reside many miles from where their roots are, with friends and family typically scattered in various locales across the country and globe. We've been intensively engineered to live these kind of mobile, remote lives for many decades, when, left to our own devices in the past, we built our own "15-minute cities" (villages and communities) and functioned, for the most part, well enough within them. Of course any environment that contains human beings is always far from perfect and has its challenges and limitations, but overall, organic communities built by and for the benefit of the people in them, served their inhabitants well.

These traditional communities, however, were intentionally shattered by social engineers, and, as life has become more and more mobile and transient since, lives have become lonelier and unhappier, with people now the loneliest and most disconnected they have ever been.

Yet it is only now the overlords decide to reimpose the kind of "1950s values" implicit in a 15-minute city back on us - values we were easily equipped to cope with when it was actually 1950, and when communities had organically developed over many generations - but for most of us alive now, we have little or no experience of living that way - and we no longer have the tools and facilities people of the 1950s did.

This is not a blip or an accident. The overlords assassinated these environments, only to attempt a ghoulish sort of resuscitation many years later, for a reason. The problem with natural and organic "15-minute cities", e.g., communities that have developed over many decades, is that they're too supportive, integrated, and engaging, giving people a genuine sense of meaning and belonging, which is the last thing our deviously evil social engineers want for us.

They want us - like all good abusers do - lonely, isolated, and miserable, so they can fill the void of our empty lives with their sinister "solutions" (feeling lonely? Chat to a state-programmed AI chatbot today! Hasn't cheered you up? How about some government-assisted dying?).

The establishment cynically subsidised world travel, foreign holidays, lengthy education and going away to study and work, as a decades-long plot to break up traditional communities and make people more and more atomised and isolated. For many centuries, it was absolutely the norm to be born, live, and die within the same twenty mile radius, but this engendered too many lasting, supportive bonds and too much of a sense of meaning through culture and community, so the overlords worked diligently to destroy it, by dangling the dazzling baubles of opportunity and adventure through transience and travel instead.

After more than 50 years of this, with neighbours now strangers to each other and people more likely to speak to a spambot from Nigeria than the person in the house next to them, the (anti-)social engineering objectives are complete, and it is only now that the ruling classes reimpose "1950s values" on us - with none of the 1950s communities left to support them.

Cosmopolitan lifestyles were ultimately a cruel hoax - a very brief mirage in human history, only made accessible to us by intensive subsidies, which the overlords will now brutally rip away, intending to do away with both private vehicle ownership and overseas travel. As I say, most of humans all throughout history have lived perfectly well without these things - but they've built robust and enduring communities around not having them. Modern communities, meanwhile, have been severely undermined and in many cases destroyed altogether by the intensive social focus on perpetual mobility, commuting, and travel - leaving us, once harsh 15-minute restrictions come into force, with very little left - except, of course, surrogate communities and culture via our screens.

The overlords' ultimate desire is to have all of us sitting alone in our eco SMART pods, existing only as an avatar in the Metaverse, and never interacting with the real world, or real people, at all. A recent video from The Telegraph newspaper made it explicit, predicting that, by 2030, we may "never need to leave our houses again". Various "SMART" devices will run out households (even opening drawers for us, since apparently, by then, such physical effort will be too much of an imposition), and any physical goods we require will be delivered to our doorsteps by drone.

So, that's the first problem with 15-minute cities... it's not 1950 any more, and (by design) all the values that made 1950s communities function have been shattered. 15-minute cities won't mean a return to Dixon-of-Dock-Green type friendly community values, they will mean desperately lonely and cut-off people retreating into themselves and their screens, and us becoming a nation of socially dysfunctional recluses (even more than we already are, and, I mean, we're English...).

The other problem with 15-minute cities is this: think about where you live now. Are all amenities you require (including grocery stores, clothes shops, hardware suppliers, schools and colleges, healthcare facilities, gyms and other leisure environments) all within a 15-minute walk (less than one mile) of your home?

Unless you live in a city-centre flat, the answer is almost certainly no. I live in an average residential area in the north of England, and, within 15 minutes of my home, there's a few small corner shops selling, primarily, tinned food and alcohol, a takeaway, and, well, that's about it. For a well-stocked supermarket, clothes shops, facilities to buy white goods and furniture, and for all leisure opportunities, I've got to go further afield, and that is so for the majority of UK residents.

So how are they going to transform all our locales into 15-minute cities, and within the next few years too? I don't see any mass building sites for supermarkets and other facilities popping up everywhere, do you? In fact, the only building projects I see anywhere - and exclusively in city centres - are developments for new flats.

Go to any major city - London, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham - and high-rise flat developments are shooting up everywhere/ Weird, you may think, I mean, most people in the UK already have a home and other than youngsters, most people don't want to live in noisy, smelly, expensive city centres - so who, exactly, are all these flats for?

To answer that question, please note the astonishing new "energy efficient" demands now placed on rental properties. It has recently been announced that landlords have five years to bring all rental properties up to a 'C' standard of energy efficiency, ostensibly to meet "net zero" targets, and if they don't, they will be fined £30,000.

The average cost of bringing a property up to a 'C standard of energy efficiency is £69,000 and can cost over £100,000.

The corollary of this is obvious: most landlords will be forced to sell up, as very few have a spare £70k lying around, and even were they to invest such a sum, the passed on costs to tenants would probably force them to move out anyway.

There are two options at this point - the houses could be bought up by the banks and other massive operations that are able to afford these costs... or the houses could be demolished, as destroying them in favour of developing more energy efficient alternatives may be a smarter investment.

I predict that the latter is far more likely - and that all these displaced tenants will then be relocated in the SMART eco (energy efficient) pods springing up all over the nation's city centres. The scheming elites want to clear most of the country of human beings, and stack us on top of each other in so-called "human habitation zones"/

The joys of such zones will be sold to us as convenient and accessible "15-minute cities" - since, now you're in a city centre, everything you need really is within walking distance - and, as an additional very attractive selling point, you can now be toasty warm all winter without spending half your salary on heat, as per this winter just gone - with next winter forecasted to be even worse - because your home is now energy efficient.

That's how I see them redirecting renters into SMART 15-minute living, but what about home owners? It seems they will put the pressure on them by increasing mortgage repayments in concert with ever-spiralling utilities (and are in the process of banning the loophole of the money-saving wood burner), until eventually, home owners throw up their hands and realise it's just not financially viable to be spending an ever-increasing fortune maintaining their home, when they could live in a nice, cheap, warm eco-pod instead. What's the point of owning your own home if you're constantly broke and freezing? You'll own nothing and be happy, remember...

So that's what I see as their strategy, and how they will attempt to squeeze both renters and home owners out, and into SMART "human habitation zones", instead.

That's their plan - but that doesn't mean they're going to achieve it. Applying some foresight now helps give us the tools to formulate a response to stop it. They've given landlords five years to achieve these goals and an awful lot can change in five years. So, this is just a heads-up whilst we've still got plenty of time to start formulating a resistance. There will be many options for subverting this, one being shared housing with an owner-occupier. Home owners are exempt from the energy efficiency requirements (that's only for landlords buying to let), and if there's enough income-earning adults in one household, soaring costs can be met more easily without people being forced out of their homes. That's just one option, and I'm sure many other creative alternatives will go on to be developed.

In conclusion, the important thing to bear in mind is that it's not so much that they intend to bring the 15-minute cities to us, as that they intend to bring us to the 15-minute cities: not by force, but by making other options look so non-viable that in our desperation we become grateful when the overlords swoop in to "save" us.

As always, though, there will be plenty of other options to the ruling classes' sinister "solutions", so please don't despair - but, as ever, do take the vital time we have now to prepare.

(The picture accompanying this article is of my father as a baby, with his mother and grandmother, in 1951. My father and his parents lived with his grandmother until the family could afford their own home in 1953, and my grandmother stayed in that same house until her death in 2017.)

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