Universal sociopathy?
More takes from watching too many videos:
Supposedly something like 2/3 of corporations plan to replace white collar workers with AIs. Soon there will be no one left with an income, but then we'll just put everyone on a UBI. Capitalism has an answer for everything.
Anyone else notice that whenever Russia draws a red line the US (or England or ...) crosses it almost the next day? DPU? Oh. we've already ordered those. F-16s? Here they come. Cruise missiles with the range to hit Moscow? Right here. Can you load them with nukes? If you can't that'll be in next month's escalation. It seems like we're trying to provoke a response. How much more can Russia refuse to respond before we switch to the tried and true false flag stunt Or just plain a first strike? 5...4...3...
Pharma has gotten tired of that, they aren't even trying to hide it any longer. I'm sure I'll be accused of exaggerating, but I almost remember the announcement, "Our flunkies in Washington, London, Brussels, etc. are all signing a not-even-secret treaty granting us absolute power, so we can save bribe money. Oh, we need it because, oh... the next pandemic, scheduled for October. What? I'm not supposed to say... oh who cares?"
The (always extended) Debt Limit. First Joe Biden said he would not negotiate, then he said he was (had to?) negotiating. It seems he thinks we've forgotten (like he probably has) that he's wanted to make the service cuts the Republicans are calling for for at least 40 years. Yeah, who better to trust to protect Medicare and Social Security?
Idea: the "woke agenda" and environmental "extremism" and "Antifa" are all right wing psyops to discredit legitimate attempts to address catastrophic problems caused by the elites but would inconvenience those same elites. Since when did "democracy" and "freedom" mean Bill Gates' right to command everyone to take his vaccines or go to a West Australian gulag - or by the way, Ukraine's right to shell people just because they spoke Russian? I sympathize, I don't speak Spanish, that's why I have a 155mm howitzer on the deck of my condo.
So, how am I going to die? A nuclear fireball? An adverse reaction to a Phizer "vaccine"? Exposure a month after my savings run out? A last minute trip to Canada?
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A fun play of ideas
sociopathy, socialization, socialism
conditional conditioning
what a mess has become this nest
thanks for the essay doh
Isn't universal sociopathy the US ideal? Every
person for themselves and devil take the hindmost, look out for numbah one and fuck the rest?
Thou shalt not cooperate in anything for that way is evil and only total, relentless, ethics and rule free competition brings forth excellence and the perfect apportionment of resources. I'm pretty sure that they did their damnedest to teach me that for most of my life, except on Holy days, when one must profess to love thy competitor, but only for that day alone.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I suspect that,
given the pro-war fetish that both facets of the Uniparty are now embracing and broadcasting, our shared demise will come as a direct result of this completely avoidable war.
I don't think that it'll be a first strike on us as part of some cosmic Plan: I think that it'll most likely happen as a result of an error on the part of a fallible human somewhere, or a previously-undiscovered bug in some software package.
I also don't expect the Russians to put up with our escalating provocations forever. Sooner or later, a pilot will play chicken a little too closely, or a warship's weapons officer will type in the wrong target for his cruise missile, or something like that. Or they will get tired of waiting for our weapons to actually be delivered into the Ukraine, and will start splashing the transport aircraft or ships while en route. And then the boys will all get to play with their toys, one last time, in one final purity-of-essence orgasmic shootout.
I don't worry about starving to death, or dying of exposure in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. I just want to have enough warning to pour my drink, and change into my tux, to become one with the plasma.
However (and on a happier note), as a result of our most recent trip, I've changed my recipe: the drink will be a nice single-malt Scotch, neat, instead of a Manhattan. See? I can evolve with the times. I've now set up my go-shelf with a really nice 14-year Balvenie and an 18-year Macallan, with the corks loosened and ready to go. I'll make the choice at the last minute.
It's a faster drink to make, anyway. Gives me more time to get my tie straight.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
the 1950s vision of the future Utopia...
there would be so much technology, robots, etc. (and now we can add AI) that the world would be blissful with no more manual labor and everyone would be able to have a picnic every day.
And you know, that isn't so unreasonable, however....
Under this economic system those who control robotics or AI or whatever aren't doing so to benefit the world. No, they want money and if you've lost your job because of robotization or AI, you're a hobo, a down and outer. Sorry, loser.
Small pox
They're going to kill you with small pox and then you'll be replaced with automation.
concerned more about the big pox
which the greedy elites have become
devouring earth's resources and health
for their own insatiable desire
will be the death of us all
You can't get rid of capitalism?
I started the essay by saying we will automate into a dystopia. Everyone will have everything they need when machines will make it for them - but that means essentially no one will have a job, so no one will have the money to buy anything. Capitalism will efficiency itself out of existence. But this doesn't have to be. First we can lower needs and establish minimum requirements and separate them. Everyone gets all the food they need and a house to live in, but if you want a bigger house or an electric guitar or a soccer ball and a pair of spikes you'll have to make it yourself first or work to buy it.
I want to spend my days playing softball. That means I need a ball, a bat, a glove and a pair of spikes. How much is that, $100? I need to work a day to afford that, not 300 days a year for 40 years. Say people don't want to work growing crops. At the worst we might need to "earn" the benefits of society - after you get out of high school you have to build houses for a few years, or run errands for seniors, whatever society needs. (NOT what capitalism needs) If people only worked for what they really want and not more there would be less resource extraction, less pollution, less garbage, and a lot more happiness.
There is one possible problem, I'll call it a doctor shortage. It takes what. 12 years to become a doctor? With free food and housing and cheap everything else a medical degree is a lot of time and effort for the reward. But I would suggest that without capitalism - the cost of the training and the enormous costs of your "contribution", enough people would become doctors and engineers and research scientists and such for the value of their work - not everyone can spend their time writing novels or playing music and feel rewarded. Also, without 40 years of grinding work being forced upon us there will be less need for doctors. Trust society - we have a shortage of doctors because the AMA and the med schools limit the number of doctors so that the doctors we have can charge enormous prices and med schools can charge enormous tuitions. If we had all the med schools as there are qualified applicants a doctor would make less than an auto mechanic, and then how would the med schools be able to afford $250,000+ for a degree? Trust society. Remove capitalism's artificially warping things and things will work themselves out.
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