This is why we need Mars colonization + opening up federal land, etc.
If people have an open frontier to escape to and experiment on, then tinkering with the "machine" or exiting it and founding your own is legal, taking away many of the bad social incentives of a closed system.
The machine always off loads risk to those with no voice, and no-one is suffering more from this than the young and the currently unborn.
Hence the machine is now breaking down as the former unborn are now young and they find their place in the machine as sacrificial lambs led to slaughter less than ideal, and that the machine can only demand blood and offer nothing.
Thus leaving the machine through the dual means of permaculture and bitcoin become the only option.
To not want what the machine offers is a stress test to the individual. If enough don’t want what the machine offers the machine will respond and offer different things. But it’s a big ship and I think this current iteration of the machine suits many or at least that’s what the propaganda arm of the machine tells us to think. There’s always that gnawing knowing that you’re being exploited by the system, that pokes at you - most can quell it. For me there is a distant vision of how much better it could be … if only we did this instead of that but as you have pointed out - no one goes for that as it might upset the Apple cart of comfort and plenty.
And so we lapse into apathy and “remain indifferent by ignoring the structural asymmetries embedded into the organization of industrial society.” There’s always the rebellious life but it’s frustrating because you’re fighting against a behemoth. Still … it’s a project to keep one amused.
Kaczynski is the name of one of the political leaders in Warsaw, Poland. Throughout history it's been a highly respected name. I saw the transformation from Communism to capitalism. In the age before computers. I did translations for many authors, editors, etc. As a youth I often read similar papers comparable to your piece. It's been years since I've consumed anything like this. Thank you for sharing.
As long as its definition is not destroyed by collectivist gobblygook (e.g."late-stage", "crony-", etc.), Capitalism works best to offer an individual's escape from the machine, but only as long as 1) the People follow through with *limiting* the size of the State to ~10-15% the size of GNP, *and* 2) a large majority of individuals take control of their own capital growth, i.e. don't spend/consume to the felt.
capitalism mutates into socialism in its late stages. Trump is doing something brilliant with baby "Trump accounts" which give babies $1,000 at birth, this will be something like $50,000 by the time they're 18 and will give every American a piece of upside.
Yes, and it always will, until a People come along that realize the power is theirs to enforce an effective corral (a la the ignored 10th A, etc.) on the State. I want that People to be us. Imo, the leviathan's size and scope is the source of all negative (in-human) societal cycles. Fix that, and humanity progresses for real.
I totally agree with your history. I dispute the "inevitable" future.
I am the optimist to your pessimist, but the realist in me is the half-agreement to which I refer.
Anyway, thank you for informing me of Alexander Tytler's possible source, Polybius. I have said for decades we need to find an exit to the "Tytler cycle" at just the right point. Others have said it better, and you are a writer that could do it.
This is a serious piece dealing with the exact things that most people are often overlooking.
And yes, we're all a part of this machine, but as more people realize that fact -- more people just might start to change the way they look at things.
At least that's a start.
thanks brother
This is why we need Mars colonization + opening up federal land, etc.
If people have an open frontier to escape to and experiment on, then tinkering with the "machine" or exiting it and founding your own is legal, taking away many of the bad social incentives of a closed system.
I have hopes that certain new technologies, like Dr. Harold White's Casimir energy technology, could give us such a future, whether or not the governments want us to have it: https://grainofwheat.substack.com/p/the-quantum-powered-nomads-of-the?r=1mcpmt
correct, although colonizing Africa is an easier solution.
The machine always off loads risk to those with no voice, and no-one is suffering more from this than the young and the currently unborn.
Hence the machine is now breaking down as the former unborn are now young and they find their place in the machine as sacrificial lambs led to slaughter less than ideal, and that the machine can only demand blood and offer nothing.
Thus leaving the machine through the dual means of permaculture and bitcoin become the only option.
good time to buy Bitcoin
To not want what the machine offers is a stress test to the individual. If enough don’t want what the machine offers the machine will respond and offer different things. But it’s a big ship and I think this current iteration of the machine suits many or at least that’s what the propaganda arm of the machine tells us to think. There’s always that gnawing knowing that you’re being exploited by the system, that pokes at you - most can quell it. For me there is a distant vision of how much better it could be … if only we did this instead of that but as you have pointed out - no one goes for that as it might upset the Apple cart of comfort and plenty.
And so we lapse into apathy and “remain indifferent by ignoring the structural asymmetries embedded into the organization of industrial society.” There’s always the rebellious life but it’s frustrating because you’re fighting against a behemoth. Still … it’s a project to keep one amused.
Excellent
thank you kindly
Kaczynski is the name of one of the political leaders in Warsaw, Poland. Throughout history it's been a highly respected name. I saw the transformation from Communism to capitalism. In the age before computers. I did translations for many authors, editors, etc. As a youth I often read similar papers comparable to your piece. It's been years since I've consumed anything like this. Thank you for sharing.
thank you, very kind
My goodness that was massive and beautiful! Bravo.
thank you friend for the kind words
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This was great, very informative and thought provoking!
thank you very much, I'm honored.
As long as its definition is not destroyed by collectivist gobblygook (e.g."late-stage", "crony-", etc.), Capitalism works best to offer an individual's escape from the machine, but only as long as 1) the People follow through with *limiting* the size of the State to ~10-15% the size of GNP, *and* 2) a large majority of individuals take control of their own capital growth, i.e. don't spend/consume to the felt.
Thank you, BP. I half agree with you!
capitalism mutates into socialism in its late stages. Trump is doing something brilliant with baby "Trump accounts" which give babies $1,000 at birth, this will be something like $50,000 by the time they're 18 and will give every American a piece of upside.
Yes, and it always will, until a People come along that realize the power is theirs to enforce an effective corral (a la the ignored 10th A, etc.) on the State. I want that People to be us. Imo, the leviathan's size and scope is the source of all negative (in-human) societal cycles. Fix that, and humanity progresses for real.
I totally agree with your history. I dispute the "inevitable" future.
I am the optimist to your pessimist, but the realist in me is the half-agreement to which I refer.
Anyway, thank you for informing me of Alexander Tytler's possible source, Polybius. I have said for decades we need to find an exit to the "Tytler cycle" at just the right point. Others have said it better, and you are a writer that could do it.