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[–]frankinnoho 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not many see things so clearly... Except I have long thought that there is no stopping this once it starts except complete collapse.

Just look at Mungers UCSB dorms if you want to see what's in store. Or how retirement age and worker life expectancy are becoming one and the same.

I'm reminded of Solaria in Asimov's "The Naked Sun" (Robot series, Book 2. He took the concept techno fetichism to its logical conclusion over 60 years ago.

[–]therazorx👹🧹🥇 The road to truth is often messy. 👹📜🕵️🎖️ 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Everyone needs to watch the Ghost in the Shell Anime. Not the one offs, but the first two seasons.

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'll have to downl...., er buy that and watch.

[–]therazorx👹🧹🥇 The road to truth is often messy. 👹📜🕵️🎖️ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You should, it's amazing how much an Anime predicted over 20 years ago.

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I found it hiding under a sofa cushion or something, I'll start watching tomorrow.

[–]shatabee5 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What I did not anticipate was that the ultra wealthy Overclass would implement basically all of these very same ideas I once had, not with the goal of providing everyone on this planet with utopian material abundance, but with the goal of stripping people of every kind of sovereignty.

The Overclass is only interested in saving their own asses. The sooner the rest of us are out of the picture, the better.

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The first time 'round when we had serfdom and feudal overlords, our feudal lords understood that their wealth 'trickled upwards' from their serfs. Without the serfs producing wealth, there was nothing for the lords to take. Lords measured their wealth by the number of serfs that their lands could support.

Our current crop of wannabe feudal lords seem to think their electronic 'money' is real and is all they need to be wealthy. They don't seem to realize that if they destroy their base of serfs, they will be poor, because nobody will be producing anything. And without a base of poor people to fight their wars, and especially the industrial base to build weapons, they won't be able to carry on their neo-colonialism and rape of the 'third world'.

In other words, they're morons. This is literally a case of the parasite intentionally killing the host, oblivious to the consequences.

[–]shatabee5 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I guess ivermectin wouldn't work on them, would it.

[–]Super_Soviet_Gundam 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Probably one of the most important posts to read on "this sub" right now. This is a pretty good high level view of what the global oligarchy is up to.

[–]EddieC 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We are being enslaved...

 
Consider this perspective - the usurpation of the mind never actually ceased