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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby AdamB » Sun 25 Oct 2020, 11:39:48

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AdamB wrote:Says the guy who can't define "lower". I provided an example, with numbers, so a kindergartener can point here and there, to explain bigger and lower. Please apply your relative concepts to the example provided to demonstrate you know...well....anything.


AH, who said I couldn’t define lower?


You, as best I can tell. I put out a perfectly reasonable example with numbers posts and posts ago, just to make sure I had a working idea anyone could hang their hat on.

You apparently even lack the hat.
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby Newfie » Sun 25 Oct 2020, 12:39:48

You two stop or go to your room.

Seriously.
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby Armageddon » Sun 25 Oct 2020, 15:54:52

Newfie wrote:You two stop or go to your room.

Seriously.




That’s all this Adam clown has in his life.
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby Newfie » Sun 25 Oct 2020, 16:25:09

You THREE stop it.
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby ralfy » Sun 25 Oct 2020, 22:01:01

Newfie wrote:Ralfy,

That is a really good point, much of what we identify as “collapse” is a western culture thing.

So here is my question; that other roughly 5 billion living on under $10/day, how much of their food comes from the top 2.5 billion people? Are they primarily sufficient? Or do they rely upon the wet for sustenance? Will our collapse push them over the edge?


Other sources reveal that only a few large corporations control much of food processing worldwide, with production heavily dependent on mechanized agriculture. In general, large amounts of energy and material resources are needed to provide basic needs even to the 71 pct of the population. That's because the 29 pct rely on them not only for labor but even for earnings: in capitalism, the bulk of wealth of the 29 pct is virtual, and its value can only be maintained or can grow if more of the 71 pct work and buy. Put simply, capitalists need not only workers but also consumers, and it just so happens that those consumers are also workers.

Put simply, the few can get what they want only if most can get what they need, and the few can become richer (which is what they want) only if most get more than what they need.

Since most people always want more, then they have to keep saying to themselves that such an arrangement can continue indefinitely. That's why they are either ignorant of or completely reject realities such as peak oil, environmental damage, and climate change, if not argue that are easy and quick solutions to them.

How much more is needed? In the past, the bulk of the world's population were living on only a dollar or two daily. Now, it's more, and many of them are young and ambitious, and are eager to earn and spend more. Meanwhile, capitalists who earn from them want them to do so because it leads to higher profits and returns on investment.

And what's getting in their way is physical reality.
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby AdamB » Thu 29 Oct 2020, 15:39:19

ralfy wrote:That means collapse took place long before "collapsology" was even considered.


A country not growing out of their Third World status isn't a post collapse thing. It is a Third World country thing. If they wish to happily remain the way they are, it isn't about collapse having ever happened to them. It is the way of life they choose. The Amish aren't trying to become financial accountants or looking forward to getting law degrees and moving into running local government, they are who and what they are.

Like Third World countries. If they don't like who/what/where they are, I recommend immigrating to the places where, you know, stuff is happening.
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby REAL Green » Fri 30 Oct 2020, 06:29:40

This is a great article that explains the Marxist/fascist far left with their support and their goals. This is a fascinating merging of history in a 21st century techno-modern reality. The tools of the past are being assembled and applied with extreme efficiency mainly because of the techno modern environment we are in. Capital and the digital message can instantly be applied as needed. A long-term planting of operatives at all level local and federal is now complete through the 8 years of Obama corruption. This new force now permeates all power structures. It has all the finance it needs. It has the foot soldiers. It has the outlets of information controlled. It has intel and much of the federal law enforcement. This is truly Orwellian because there will be no compromise now. Control will soon be complete. The result will likely be a civil war. Maybe it remains cold overall but definitely hot where the important nodes of power are located. This is the most dangerous time in world history because of the size and reach of the US and its military. Everyone should be afraid who loves freedoms. China is there. The US will mirror China with a US flavoring.

“Plutocrat Violence And Election-Night Horror: Marxian Analysis Shows That Antifa Is Fascist”
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/ ... a-fascist/

“In the simplest possible terms, Antifa is fascist because while they use some of the talking points and imagery of the old left, they actually work towards a plutocratic coup (or counter-revolution) against the republic. This is not to say there is a system-wide fascist threat, for reasons we will explain in an upcoming installment. In short, the coming coup against republican norms will not establish ‘fascism’ as historically understood, but a new kind techno-industrial repressive society within the rubric of post-modernity, which has hitherto not been contemplated rigorously outside of small circles of futurists and science fiction authors. Antifa and BLM protests have generally disappeared from the simulated reality of the controlled media lens, because these riots did not have the intended effect of delegitimizing the Trump administration, instead working against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris…What defined them as fascists in Marxian terms was not the self-professed utopian, futurist, religious, socialist, or reactionary beliefs of this or that member of the movement, but by the objective material and financial reality of being backed by the plutocracy against the public, itself. All the while posing as guardians of the public…Marxian analysis requires that we assess a movement by a.) Its material base, meaning which class empowers it and makes it possible (finances it) and b.) In whose class interest they work to empower. The answer for both here is the plutocracy. Because they pose as ‘revolutionary left’ but are in fact plutocratic, means they are fascist…Their Tactics Are Taken From Fascism Of course the fascism of Antifa is visible to many, because of its gang-stalking and arson, the mob intimidation of citizens and small businesses to support this nascent totalitarian movement. To force passersby to raise the fist just as eighty-five years ago, Germans and Italians were identically forced to give the Roman salute, is only a corroborating piece of anecdata, and not the root of the reasoning that Antifa is fascist in nature. But insofar as the Antifa mob and BLM leadership situates itself ostensibly in Marxism, this is perhaps even more dangerous for the reasons we’ve explained. And yet it is Marxian analysis itself which is best suited to demonstrate that even at a theoretical level, Antifa is fascist…Unlike the old left, rooted in radically independent organized labor, Antifa’s leadership and activities, to the contrary, are financed through billionaire oligarchs both directly and indirectly, like George Soros and Michael Bloomberg…Fascism is a matter of methods, of tactics, and of financing – not of symbols, explicit ideology, or specific positions on culture-war (wedge) issues. That said, Griffin’s point that fascism no longer has the ability to mobilize a mass movement in the way it did prior to WWII, but that it can carry on as a smaller phenomenon that can inspire terrorism, is agreed. Many of his reasons for stating so are incorrect, even if this conclusion is apt…Both the traditional radical left and fascist right were proponents of violence towards political goals, even if in self-defense, but the traditional radical left used to focus on ‘punching up’: Attacking capital, the ruling class, the banks, big land owners. But historic fascism in its late-nascent stage is more similar to Maoism during the Cultural Revolution (there’s a strong New Left orientation to Maoism as well). It organizes and concentrates power by ‘punching down’. This dangerous fascistic trend among what has come to be known as ‘the left’. At the level of universities, it began in the late 90’s when coastal university classrooms became ‘call-out sessions’. It moved into mass culture through venture-capital funded click-bait websites like Buzzfeed and Jezebel. Of course all of these antics would have been unrecognizably alien to militant rank-and-file labor union members in decades past. That Antifa punches down and that mainstream media echoes their talking points, and that public service announcements are increasingly indistinguishable from Antifa propaganda, is a clear sign of its fascist essence. Punching down is always from a position of power, and its appropriation by the overt sections of power is a clear sign that their ideas have become what the French Marxist Althousser called the Ideological State Apparatus: That anything and everything outside of nebulous, ever-changing shibboleths (i.e. ‘community standards’) can potentially be called ‘fascist’ as a justification for ‘cancel culture’ and black-listing, is precisely that which the growing ‘illiberal liberalism’ of the plutocrats indeed flourishes on…Like Fascists, Antifa Relies on Support from Local Law Enforcement, Local Business, and an Entrenched Local Political Class to Place Them ‘Above the Law’ Perhaps you’ve seen old film reel of Nazis in the 1920’s in paramilitary uniform, long before they had official power in the governmental sense, seemingly able to physically attack those they wanted at whim, without local authorities intervening…When we understand that their ability to operate ‘above the law’ in many cases, find large groups of philanthropically minded lawyer’s groups (like the National Lawyers’ Guild) to work to have their charges dropped, district attorneys who are lenient, and the media industrial complex including monopoly social media, all work in coordinated fashion to enable the Antifa organization…Perhaps it is ironic that Marxian analysis itself is best able to demonstrate that Antifa – whose members often describe themselves as Marxists (socialists, communists, etc.) – is in fact fascist.”
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby Plantagenet » Fri 30 Oct 2020, 23:37:17

REAL Green wrote:Perhaps it is ironic that Marxian analysis itself is best able to demonstrate that Antifa – whose members often describe themselves as Marxists (socialists, communists, etc.) – is in fact fascist.”


It makes perfect sense to me. Marxist Leninist states like the Soviet Union, Albania, North Korea, etc. etc. were dictatorships that governed for decades in the late 20th century much like the fascist dictatorships in Germany and Italy did in the 1930s. In fact, its useful to think of fascist states as "black fascists" and communist states as "red fascists"...because there really is very little objective difference between the two.

Antifa resembles nothing so much as the blackshirt street fighters of the Nazis. Antifa has even adopted the same color clothing as the black shirts.

Coincidence?...I think not.

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Having said that, I don't think the fascist nature of the antifa organization will have much to do with collapse.

We've got much bigger things to worry about.

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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby REAL Green » Sun 01 Nov 2020, 07:00:17

First, I do not care for double standards. Double standards and bias deflect the truth. I am an American and China is the biggest threat so this discussion is from an American point of view. It goes with the territory of what the US is doing and has done to be a target of China. This longish article is a must read for those interested in where geopolitical movements will be in the next decade. This will likely be a period as dangerous or more than the US Soviet cold war mainly because the world is much further along with delocalization from globalism. China and the US are bent of global hegemony. This will at some point inevitably clash. How far this clash cascades is up for debate. The two nations have dangerous dependence on each other in regards to war. The Chinese are much more reckless mainly because the US has had hegemony and it now stands to lose it whereas China sees a clear opportunity to gain it. China with its population control likely has the advantage of forcing its population to sacrifice. Expect China to call the moves and the US respond. In my opinion a Sino American conflict will collpase the world as we know it. Maybe not collpase but intense decline in affluence and security.

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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/1670 ... ial-threat

“So is China merely a competitor, or is it an enemy? To answer that, I would like to look at four things: First, disease. The People's Republic of China has attacked us with a microbe. This attack shows how, and to what lengths, China will go to injure other societies. Everyone talks about how Chinese generals and admirals are changing the definition of war. Unfortunately, we now have an example of how they are doing so. China's unrestricted warfare -- a term Beijing has been using for at least 21 years -- now includes biological attack. China's leaders knew for at least five weeks, maybe as much as five months, that the coronavirus was highly contagious, but during this period they propagated the narrative they knew was false. They were telling the world that this was not readily transmissible from one human to the next. Chinese leader Xi Jinping enlisted the World Health Organization in propagating that narrative, which by the way, senior doctors at WHO knew was false. They knew this virus was highly contagious…Beijing is working hard to unseat President Trump. They are doing so not only with their social media feeds but also with their public pronouncements and other efforts…Beijing has unleashed its trolls and its bots against Trump. The New York Times reported in March that Beijing propagated, through social media feeds and text messages, the rumor that President Trump was going to invoke the Stafford Act and lock down the entire United States. Of course, Beijing knew that was false. Beijing has also been running operations and networks, including the one called Spamouflage Dragon, which relentlessly attacked the president. YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have since taken down that network. China's effort is massive. We have seen periodically American social media companies take down fake Chinese accounts. In June alone, Twitter took down 174,000 fake Chinese accounts. That is just one month, one social media platform, 174,000 accounts…This blends into the third topic, which is subversion. TikTok, the wildly popular video sharing app, employs the world's most sophisticated commercially available artificial intelligence. It uses that artificial intelligence to pick videos to send to people…The Chinese Communist Party probably changed public opinion in connection with this spring's riots. Some observers think TikTok got college-attending white women to believe they were oppressed and therefore motivated them to demonstrate…This weaponized propaganda can turn people against one another and also ruin the credibility of their governments. Engineers working for Douyin, TikTok's sister app in China, develop the algorithms for TikTok's use. That is the reason China does not want TikTok sold to an American company: it wants to keep control of that algorithm. The algorithm curates content and can motivate people to do things they otherwise might not do. People believe Beijing "boosted the signal" this June to help a "prank" against President Trump…Radio Free Asia reports that an intelligence unit of the People's Liberation Army actually based themselves in the Houston consulate. Using big data and artificial intelligence, they identified Americans who were likely to participate in Black Lives Matter and Antifa protests. The PLA unit then created videos and sent them out through TikTok. Those videos instructed people how to riot…US Customs and Border Patrol agents seized 900,000 counterfeit one‑dollar bills from China at the International Falls Port of Entry in Minnesota. In China's total surveillance state, no one can counterfeit American currency without Beijing's knowledge, so it appears that this operation had at least the tacit support of the Chinese government. The question is, who counterfeits one‑dollar bills? People certainly do not do that for profit: the cost of counterfeiting those bills and getting them across the Pacific is higher than one dollar…China's military officers are making their "military diplomacy" the diplomacy of the country. We now know that in Beijing, only hostile answers are considered to be politically acceptable. Xi Jinping is under pressure, things are not going his way. Chinese leaders, civilians and perhaps military officers as well -- know that there is a closing window of opportunity. This became clear in January when the Xinhua News Agency, the official media outlet, ran a story titled: "Xi Stresses Racing Against Time to Reach Chinese Dream."… The reason this is important is because, up to now, the primary basis of legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party has been the continual delivery of prosperity. Without the assurance of prosperity, the only remaining basis of legitimacy is nationalism. Nationalism, as a practical matter, means military misadventure abroad. To understand military misadventure abroad, think what is going on in India and what China is doing to threaten Taiwan at this moment…We may think that Xi Jinping should be cautious. Unfortunately, he now has incentives to cause a crisis -- one that for us would be unimaginable…The idea was to be able to get Chinese goods from its east coast over to Europe. These two initiatives have now been amalgamated into the Belt and Road and now span the world. There's a Polar Belt and Road, a Latin American Belt and Road, a Caribbean Belt and Road, and so on. China wants countries to build infrastructure. This is infrastructure generally the private sector would not build. These projects, in general, are not economic. The loans that China extended actually have high interest rates…We know one thing. Every new president will give China a grace period. President Trump did that for about 15 months to try to develop cooperative relationships with Beijing, to see if they could work something out. We know that Xi Jinping did not reciprocate Trump's generous overtures. That is why Trump, starting around the spring of 2018, actually started to impose severe costs on China.”
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby ralfy » Sun 01 Nov 2020, 21:44:15

Xi and others are actually pro-reformist, which is why China joined the WTO in 2001 and agreed to buy from the U.S. last January. In short, what most thought was a trade war between the U.S. and China turned out to be a trade deal that China wanted all along:

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/ ... hina-trade

Before that, the U.S. had constructed over 800 military bases and installations to surround China and Russia, and they were part of over a century of interventions and dirty tricks:

https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan/interventions/

That's why not just China but the rest of BRICS and over forty emerging markets became less trustful of the U.S. and have been attempting to move away from the petrodollar. Even various NATO members and countries like AU and NZ tried the same as they began engaging in more trade deals with BRICS.

The U.S. tried to counter that through more dirty tricks, including attacks on and threats against the Middle East as well as Obama's pivot to Asia, but they all led to more death and suffering as well as failed.

Now, the neolibs/neocons are attempting a comeback, and if they return, expect more attacks on China: the "Chinese virus" of which samples from weeks or months before the pandemic started were found in sewer and even blood samples in various cities in different countries, Chinese disinformation networks parallel to U.S. disinformation networks, etc.
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby REAL Green » Mon 02 Nov 2020, 05:20:36

ralfy wrote:Xi and others are actually pro-reformist, which is why China joined the WTO in 2001 and agreed to buy from the U.S. last January. In short, what most thought was a trade war between the U.S. and China turned out to be a trade deal that China wanted all along:


Reformist only in their own self-interest to gain hegemony. China is the new danger in the world. China is as bad as US foreign policy now. I would say maybe worse with the release of the virus. It is was a deliberate coverup-up that spread the virus. The Chinese are getting away with this as public opinion moves on. The SCS and Taiwan will be a new danger point for war that will likely destroy the world as we know it. Maybe not collpase but a serious blow to basic economic comforts. None of us are ready for this.
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby ralfy » Mon 02 Nov 2020, 21:45:06

REAL Green wrote:Reformist only in their own self-interest to gain hegemony. China is the new danger in the world. China is as bad as US foreign policy now. I would say maybe worse with the release of the virus. It is was a deliberate coverup-up that spread the virus. The Chinese are getting away with this as public opinion moves on. The SCS and Taiwan will be a new danger point for war that will likely destroy the world as we know it. Maybe not collpase but a serious blow to basic economic comforts. None of us are ready for this.


Why would they want to gain hegemony through hard power? They saw what happened to the U.S. when they tried that: soaring debts, a reliance on the petrodollar regime, and the Triffin dilemma, resulting in BRICS and forty emerging markets slowly becoming independent of the same. Even their own NATO allies are now more reluctant to even cooperate in more destabilizing stunts.

As for soft power, the U.S. tried to refashion that in the same way as its hard power tactics, with neoliberalism and structural adjustment tied to loan agreements and financial aid with strings attached. That only lead to misery for many of those emerging markets.

If any, such stunts are part of more "danger points for war" manufactured by none other than the U.S. itself, with over 800 military bases around the world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAfeYMONj9E
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby Plantagenet » Mon 02 Nov 2020, 21:55:58

ralfy wrote:
REAL Green wrote:China is the new danger in the world.


Why would they want to gain hegemony through hard power?


"Hard power" is just part of the Chinese game plan, but they definitely use it. For instance, China invaded and conquered Tibet and added it to their state. Thats hard power.

China has forcibly put perhaps a million Uighers in northwest China into concentration camps. Thats hard power.

Just a couple of months ago China broke the agreement they had made to allow Hong Kong to maintain its own judicial system. They've destroyed the democracy movement in Hong Kong and moved in their own mainland police who are arresting and rolling up all the leadership. Thats hard power.

AND China is ramping up their threats to use their military to invade Taiwan and forcibly annex it. Just as Russia invaded and annexed the Crimea while weak Obama was President, I think China may follow the Russian example and invade Taiwan after Joe Biden becomes President, because Joe is also too weak to stand up to them.

Again....that would be hard power in action.

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And here's a news story just out today about China sending the PLA to carve out a bit of Nepal for itself

china-stealing-border-land-tiny-nepal-build-military-bases

AND there's not much Nepal can do about it......the Chinese military is thousands of times more powerful then the tiny military Nepal has.....

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Unread postby REAL Green » Tue 03 Nov 2020, 07:13:33

This is a longish article of the brave new world humans are entering. The variables are in place and the global ruling class are toying with aspects of it. It is unclear whether global powers can come together because there is evidence of a great game of power projection that may end in a devastating world war. Instead a convergence may occur in a divided world of a cold war with several power poles. It does appear that this trend will be taken to remain competitive. China is leading the way but the west is there too. Maybe it is more a difference in personalities of east and west instead of leadership. Expect to be a cog instead of an individual in a brave new world of control. In my opinion this will fail becuase the planet is in decline but humans are still clinging to growth through tech and control of both human and the planet. Yet, this is likely the next step down so prepare.

“The Great Reset for Dummies”
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“Where do we go from here? What is “the Great Reset”? The Great Reset is a massively funded, desperately ambitious, internationally coordinated project led by some of the biggest multinational corporations and financial players on the planet and carried out by cooperating state bodies and NGOs. Its soul is a combination of early 20th century science fiction, idyllic Soviet posters, the obsessiveness of a deranged accountant with a gambling addiction—and an upgraded, digital version of “Manifest Destiny.” The mathematical reason for the Great Reset is that thanks to technology, the planet has gotten small, and the infinite expansion economic model is bust—but obviously, the super wealthy want to continue staying super wealthy, and so they need a miracle, another bubble, plus a surgically precise system for managing what they perceive as “their limited resources.” Thus, they desperately want a bubble providing new growth out of thin air—literally—while simultaneously they seek to tighten the peasants’ belts, an effort that starts with “behavioral modification,” a.k.a. resetting the western peasants’ sense of entitlement to high life standards and liberties (see awful “privilege”). The psychological reason for the Great Reset is the fear of losing control of property, the planet. I suppose, if you own billions and move trillions, your perception of reality gets funky, and everything down below looks like an ant hill that exists for you. Just ants and numbers, your assets. Thus, the practical aim of the Great Reset is to fundamentally restructure the world’s economy and geopolitical relations based on two assumptions: one, that every element of nature and every life form is a part of the global inventory (managed by the allegedly benevolent state, which, in turn, is owned by several suddenly benevolent wealthy people, via technology)—and two, that all inventory needs to be strictly accounted for: be registered in a central database, be readable by a scanner and easily ID’ed, and be managed by AI, using the latest “science.” The goal is to count and then efficiently manage and control all resources, including people, on an unprecedented scale, with unprecedented digital anxiety and precision—all while the masters keep indulging, enjoying vast patches of conserved nature, free of unnecessary sovereign peasants and their unpredictability. The king’s world feels far more predictable and relaxed when the chaos of human subjectivity is contained for good. Plus, as a potentially lucrative aside, a bunch of these tightly managed “assets” can be also turned into new financial instruments and traded. Game on! In other words, it’s an “efficient” global feudalism that goes much farther than its medieval brother since the scanner is all-seeing: every person, every mineral, and every berry is digitally tagged and tracked. Under that framework, every peasant has a function that is derived not from the mystery of life, and not from their inner calling—but from AI, the master of efficiency and the servant of the king. Ideally, the peasants can be convinced that it’s good for them (or necessary to be safe, see “contact tracing”) and that this is what progress and happiness are like—but if not, there are other ways, from classic violence to virtual prisons to “morality pills.” The reform in question is meant to disrupt all areas of life, on a planetary scale: government, international relations, finance, energy, food, medicine, jobs, urban planning, real estate, law enforcement, and human interactions—and it starts with changing the way we think of ourselves and our relationship with the world. Notably, privacy is a huge thorn in the collective eye of our “great resetters”—and—as I am typing this, they are pushing their sweet talking points about how privacy is really an outdated concept—especially when it comes to people’s medical data, sheesh—and that we simply cannot move forward with the bright future if silly people keep clinging to their privacy. I will briefly go over different elements of this slippery reform in a sec—but to sum it up, the desired end result is a giant, joyless, highly controlled global conveyor of everything and everybody where privacy is tremendously expensive, dissent is unthinkable, and spiritual submission is mandatory. It’s like a 24/7 medicated reality, except the medications are both chemical and digital, and they are reporting you back to the mothership, which can then punish you for bad behavior by, say, blocking your access to certain places or by putting a hold on your digital bank account—perhaps without any human intervention at all. Thus, on a sensory level—as it relates to money and power—this conveyor is an attempt of the super wealthy to organize and monetize their “assets,” including people—more efficiently than ever before. On a theological level, the initiative is shaped by transhumanism, a formal belief system rooted in a pathological feeling of being repelled by all things natural—and a resulting view of biological forms as defective robots, which are made perfect, serial killer perfect, by merging with machines in a way that redefines the meaning of being alive and defies death itself.”
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby evilgenius » Tue 03 Nov 2020, 18:25:07

Yes, because there is a whole other path that could be taken. Ray Kurzweil may have a point about potential, but why go that way when there is a whole lot of advancement to be done in the flesh? We have not yet got the sort of science that solves for a vaccine at the pace of a television show, but we do have some good science. They can do more than solve for vaccines. That's scary in a whole other way.
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby Plantagenet » Wed 04 Nov 2020, 00:27:30

REAL Green wrote: to sum it up, the desired end result is a giant, joyless, highly controlled global conveyor of everything and everybody where privacy is tremendously expensive, dissent is unthinkable, and spiritual submission is mandatory. It’s like a 24/7 medicated reality, except the medications are both chemical and digital, and they are reporting you back to the mothership, which can then punish you for bad behavior by, say, blocking your access to certain places or by putting a hold on your digital bank account—perhaps without any human intervention at all.


Sounds like the digital surveillance state that exists in China right now.

REAL Green wrote:...this conveyor is an attempt of the super wealthy to organize and monetize their “assets,” including people—more efficiently than ever before.


I worry less about the super wealthy creating a digital surveillance state then I do about leftists doing this. After all....we already have a digital surveillance state in Communist china right now, thanks to the far leftists who control the government and use their power to exert total control over everything else in China.

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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby Plantagenet » Mon 09 Nov 2020, 17:52:56

Giant forest fires are causing huge jumps in CO2 emissions in Brazil and elsewhere

amazon-fires-brazil-co2-emissions-

There it is....the positive feedback loop.

The more CO2 in the atmosphere the more global warming we get the hotter it gets the more forest fires we have the more CO2 goes into the atmosphere the more global warming we get.....

We can't stop it now.

The planet is so hot that natural feedback loops are taking over to pump more and more CO2 and CH4 into the atmosphere.

Now we've got runaway global warming

We can't stop it.

Now we've got modern collapsology in action.

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Its not just a forest fire.....its a CO2 global warming feedback loop machine in action!!!

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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby ralfy » Mon 09 Nov 2020, 22:22:38

"On the cusp of collapse: complexity, energy, and the globalised economy"

http://fleeingvesuvius.org/2011/10/08/o ... d-economy/
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Re: Modern Collapsology

Unread postby AdamB » Mon 09 Nov 2020, 23:32:07

ralfy wrote:"On the cusp of collapse: complexity, energy, and the globalised economy"

http://fleeingvesuvius.org/2011/10/08/o ... d-economy/


A noted author of doomer-porn. Without even reading it, I'm guessing.....more doomer porn?
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