We stand at the edge of a vast societal reprogramming—and no one has asked for our permission.

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, in encrypted exchanges between billionaires and politicians, in shadow-funded institutes rewriting global norms, a new regime is taking shape. It is not democratic. It is not moral. And it is not ours.

It is the vision of those who call politics obsolete. Who see human judgment as a flaw to be corrected. Who define freedom as the right to build without consequence, dominate without limit, profit without responsibility. It is techno-supremacy: those who own the code shall rule the world.

Peter Thiel proclaims “freedom and democracy are incompatible.” Sam Altman pursues artificial general intelligence to “remake economics.” Elon Musk’s Neuralink promises to merge humans with machines. Zuckerberg’s metaverse captures our every interaction. These are not business ventures—they are governance projects.

Their creed is clear: technology evolves faster than ethics, therefore ethics must yield. History is an obstacle, not a teacher. Politics is downstream from technology—build first, ask permission never.

We’ve seen billionaires bankroll private cities, think tanks, media, political parties, surveillance, and military technology. Not to serve the public—but to control it. Constructing empires unburdened by law, solidarity, or shame.

What’s emerging? A world where children’s faces are scanned in classrooms. Where emotions are mined for profit. Where votes are manipulated by predictive algorithms. Where constitutions bend to accumulated capital.

This isn’t about tariffs or trade—it’s about power. It’s a digital coup—tech elites are hijacking not just value, but the very architecture of order. Their goal isn’t innovation—it’s control. A world where democracy is obsolete, and rule belongs to those who own the system. Not a human future, but a new feudalism: data as land, platforms as countries, and citizen as serfs.

Europe cannot afford to submit.

We remember what happens when systems are built without consent, when autocrats rule unchecked, when technology loses humility. We know: progress without justice is not progress. Intelligence without wisdom is not safe. Markets without restraint become extraction.

It is time to speak—not merely as regulators of technology, but as defenders of humanity.

We do not consent to a world where public purpose is defined by private wealth.
We do not consent to the transformation of citizens into data profiles.
We do not consent to a future built without deliberation, legitimacy, or care.

Europe must respond not with clever concessions or regulatory gestures, but with values. With courage. With vision. We must reclaim the truth: technology is a means—not an end. The common good is not a constraint on growth, but its only justification.

We do not consent. And we will not be coded into silence.