Awesome post! Really well done. I hadn't run across the Norway-Germany comparison before, but it makes perfect sense.

One question that comes up for me is how to decouple our information systems from the control regime's propaganda machine. This decoupling is happening in a technological sense to some extent. But within our own minds and social systems, official versions of the truth, however untrue, exert a constant force designed to disempower individuals and communities, on both conscious and unconscious levels. So I wonder: how can we disconnect from this force while connecting more fully with each other to build consensus around more empowering versions of the truth?