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[–]FlippyKing 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

shortages of people to do work or replacing the competent with incompetent people is a feature, not a bug, of tyranny. Actual expertise and qualifications that mean anything in the real world are a potential problem to the tyrant.

[–]Ponderer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I could see this being the case. I talked about a similar issue in this thread

[–]FlippyKing 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I saw that. I don't think we use the words "liberal", "conservative", "progressive", Communist", "Left", or "right" in useful ways anymore. I think authoritarians have used idiots, placing them any where there is any power regardless of how minuscule from the presidency to the DMV, to frustrate people who are both not idiots and have integrity. I think the world is set to finally divide those who will bow down to obviously illegitimate authority and those who will not. If we think the circumstance is ugly now, it can only get worse if these people who rule over us have their way. The population number inscribed on the Georgia Guide Stones might be an overestimation.

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

I think authoritarians have used idiots, placing them any where there is any power regardless of how minuscule from the presidency to the DMV, to frustrate people who are both not idiots and have integrity.

I could see this. The mindset definitely feels this pervasive.

Do you think there's any way out?

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

They now have global surveillance, probably more extensive than I can realistically imagine. They have weapons I can't imagine. They control the culture, and those who resist it are so far off into the outskirts of any public conversations, and being pushed further and further, so that even if a clear majority is against it we have an uphill struggle. We have to organize and resist locally. We have to start growing as much of our own food as we can and protecting our water supply as best we can.

I think we are in for some global catastrophes. All the long-term geological cycles are over due: magnetic field reversal (which should include a period of no strong field), and Yosemite exploding are just two. There's a newly found volcanic/tectonic activity that is connecting Madagascar and the African rift valley. There are so many crazy things being discovered about both the structure of the earth and about space, that we literally knew next to nothing only 20 years ago. I think there is nothing we can do but hope who ever survives it all has prepared enough for those who survive around them. The people who rule over us are analogous to running a casino and I think the casino will collapse physically and we will have no use for their chips. I can only hope it collapses on them.

I also think there is strange similarity to what might happen to the earth just due to the catastrophic cycles we see and the various predictions and warnings coming from "Marian" apparitions. That is something I don't think I could have ever imagined thinking even 3 years ago. I do not understand that. "Quite a coincidence" can not be the right phrase, but I do not have a right phrase at all. We see from sites like Gobekli Tepe that we've survived collapses before. We know from stories like Atlantis and all that, that the assumption was we was bad boys and girls. Maybe the lengths of these catastrophic cycles are exactly long enough for the worst of the worst to kill and child-rape their way to the top everywhere.

[–]Node 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The catastrophic cycles are pretty morbidly fascinating. Depending on which 'science' you believe, the imminent polar flip is a precursor to the reset of the 12,000 cycle, which has created some fairly dramatic conditions on earth during previous iterations.

Even mainstream science has begun to acknowledge past polar flips are associated with 'great extinctions'. We have some exciting times ahead of us, even if it were just the 'bust' of the boom/bust cycle to contend with.