Leaders and political groups from around the world seem hell bent on choices that don’t make any sense. Even if you take into account stupidity, greed, narcissism, religion, rascim, hate, ect. there are constantly things happening that don’t fit.
If inst, you reframe the shit being done with the thought that while none of them may agree on a final destination, they all agree that a fast drop in population is the “fast and easy” solution, then suddenly it all starts to make a lot more sense. Then everything going on is a rush to secure power and position in the post apocalypse world. And things like antivax become their own filtering mechanism to self-select stupid people out of the gene pool.
Unfortunately, once you begin thinking about things with that mind set, then it also becomes really difficult not to see COVID as a test of the system, or at least the tipping point that pushed everything into high gear.
Thanos didn’t discriminate while in our case the richest will survive and the poor will be (more) enslaved
Obviously, I used Thanos as a shorthand in the title. So, I wasn’t actually thinking that it was going to be a 1 to 1 translation of his plan… Of course he also wipes out the dwarves that made the gauntlet, and really does a number on the Asgardians. So, I am not sure you can claim that he was 100% “fair”.
Yeah no,mine wasn’t a criticism of your post. I’m no expert of marvel ,I was just saying that these ghouls we call oligarchs are worse than thanos
Same bro, just sick and unable to sleep. So, I am on here killing time by sharing my fever/insomnia induced thoughts.
I think there is also a big component of “why should I behave, when the next guy over doesn’t?”
This is called the tragedy of the Commons
More like “I don’t have to behave because I have the money to convince everyone else that it’s their responsibility to do better.”
Yup, it’s a capilatist game of chicken. Whoever slows down first to respect the environment loses the market share to those who doesn’t.
100%
I comented here with pretty much the same thoughts.
Thanos used a statistical process for extermination outcomes. The ruling class tends to agree with Oil oligarchy because the latter helps keep them as the ruling class. Food scarcity deaths don’t apply to a random statistical selection. It is poverty/national poverty based. Flood/wind damage repair/insurance is actually a significant wealth drain for highest property value markets, but Oil oligarchy disinformation will always make for the best friend of ruling class. Weapons and Zionism can team up for war policy.
The worse the country, people’s lives, misery, anger get, the less focused any political debate is on improving lives/future, and simply on replacing the previous administration causing misery/anger.
Slrpnk.net isa dat-a-way (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞ my guy. Come join us as this take fits well. This is pretty much my take on humanity. However, hope is rebellion against the system. Don’t give up.
Even if you take into account stupidity, greed, narcissism, religion, rascim, hate, ect. there are constantly things happening that don’t fit.
These things actually fit quite well, when you are greedy you want something and don’t care about these around you or the consequences.
I was going to say something similar. I was raised southern baptist and can say with confidence that religion reinforces stupidity, greed, narcissism, racism, hate, etc. People disconnect from reality to the point that they think this is all part of god’s plan.
But I do think the rich deliberately use religion and other tools to convince people to act against their own best interests. If it wasn’t being artificially protected, it probably would have died out long ago. Superstition is killing us.
Insatiable greed is a feature of the our species. It always has been, always will be, and there will always be a handful willing to destroy everything if it means they win.
The perception of viability of the “Thanos solution” (snap your fingers and a literal random half of every population ceases to exist) depends almost entirely on which side of the snap you find yourself on. Those for are banking on their survival. They don’t care about yours.
There are, of course, a few who do want to be eliminated by the snap. They don’t want to be in the resulting world, and death by snap is completely painless by any account. You simply cease to be. The only issue is you see it coming, so you have a moment to reflect. But nobody seemed to suffer for it. Just the ones who were left mourned the lost.
There’s also the proposition made by The Leftovers (a TV show on HBO), that if you remove just 3% of the population, the world changes drastically. However, in that scenario, it was only on Earth, and it was only humans and, IIRC… birds? Every other population was not culled at all.
There is a million of them and 8 billion of us. We could take them. Let’s go global as one world and set things right!
That sounds good except for the fact that half of those 8 billion either worship the million or believe they can join them by following the rules hard enough.
Not saying I’m against lynching the lot, but you have to understand that you aren’t just fighting that minority, the drooling masses are going to fight on their behalf.
What proof do you have of intentional plot to cut human population on Earth?
What proof do you have that the guy spying in your camera setup, with a lockpick set, is actually going to break into your house?
Are the people in power right now across the globe doing more to kill people or save people? That’s all the proof you need.
Sorry bro, you wandered into the wrong community for that.
I love this response. It’s asking people to constantly save every aspect of their plotting. As if we are all journalists, too. When no one has that you feel justified. As if you can’t listen to them say it then watch their actions that prove they mean it.
Razor of Occam. No need to fantasize about conspiracies and global shit, when greed and idiocy suffice
Use of brain: these memes aren’t rules and it’s stupid to rely on them.
Well there really are elites who engineer structures where they will always be on top even at the expense of others. For example, the sovereigns of the eastern european countries deliberately curtailed the industrial revolution and rail, because they thought it would bring a social revolution in which they will be overthrown.
Looking at the stock market and not seeing any idiocy. Also seeing a lot of conspiracy. I am going to have to call bullshit.
Hanlon’s Razor would be a better fit.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
IME you should add “and laziness.” to that sentence.
It’s quite useful for getting what you want really. Make not doing what you want more effort. Most people are too lazy or tired to not give in for unimportant stuff.
Eg. when being stopped by the police, take your time finding your driving license. Chances are they’ll get bored and let you go on your way before you’ve found it.
It’s always this.
I remember some post from years ago by a person saying that Elon Musk seems like a genius up until he starts talking about something you’re familiar with.
Thanks to the Internet, I think it’s gotten both more difficult to hide your own stupidity unless you’re careful with your tracks (the power-hungry often aren’t) and easier to absolutely flood the discourse so that your inferior cognitive abilities are either lost or overshadowed by something else (like Trump doing everything he, unfortunately somewhat successfully, to keep people busy talking and thinking about so much more other than his ties with Epstein).
And it keeps showing with the political and corporate leaders. The smarter ones from the latter, unfortunately, mostly seem to be psychopaths and/or sociopaths, very keen on leading the former where they need them (currently supporting AI and preparing the bailout, curbing the competition before, probably staring jaw-dropped at the news of “AI going rogue” and how can be the end of humanity and all).
Imma beat the dead horse and say that out of all dystopias, Idiocracy (2006) turned out to be the most accurate.
Elon Musk seems like a genius up until he starts talking about something you’re familiar with
He seems like a moron even when he’s talking about things I know nothing about. There’s a video on youtube of him giving a tour of SpaceX’s museum of past rockets that they’ve launched, and he’s talking about how they’ve reduced the “fiddly bits” on the outside of the rockets over the years.
It’s entirely possible to be evil and stupid, but insulated from your mistakes by money. The education and environment of the rich is highly conducive to socio/psychopathy, and selects strongly for it.
Hanlon’s razor doesn’t apply to the rich or politicians
Grey’s Law also applies:
“Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.”
This is definitely malice.
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
I don’t get what you mean?
Yeah if they are out to get you doesn’t matter if you are not not paranoid, but that’s… Meaningless.
Are you saying I am paranoid? Or you mean they are going to get me even if I am not paranoid?
Really cannot get the sense of your sentence, not sarcasm.
It’s a famous quote from a famous movie, Catch-22.
“architect”, the other commenter is essentially correct. I was trying to use the quote as shorthand to point out that it is entirely possible for a large number of people with similar goals, and no thought for the ultimate consequences of their actions, to create a situation that is effectively “out to get you”.
They are saying that maybe they are out to get us and the paranoia is justified.
Where do you think fiction is getting its ideas from.
Fiction does not generally get any ideas. Writers do.
I miss the good old days when I thought that The Onion was just meant to be funny and not prophetic.
It isn’t just the ruling class. ALL conservatives are causing this.
Conservatives are the single greatest threat to all life on earth. If not for conservatives, the normal people would be permitted to address climate change.
They’d rather be the most power in a world of fewer people than sacrifice to save them. With AI adoption potentially enabling them to retain functionality at scale, with far fewer workers, they have even less incentive to sacrifice.
With AI adoption potentially enabling them to retain functionality at scale, with far fewer workers…
I suppose that might work, altho it would also introduce a tonne of instability in to global economies at all sorts of levels, with accompanying high risks of collapse, anarchy and whatever else. Even if those weren’t a huge set of risks right there, global warming and ocean acidification are coming with a vengeance to make the surface of the planet largely uninhabitable and starved of O2, among other things.
IMO these billionaires are rapidly approaching the point at which they’ll need to vanish with their peoples in to their elaborate bunkers. And who knows how that turns out for them over the years. (seems to me it could get ugly real quick)
A year or two ago there was an article from a high-class escort who was evidently a regular at some kinds of global billionaire get-togethers. She got to know the mindset of many of the attendees over time. She said that roughly half had some kind of personal solution in their minds, and the other (roughly) half felt discernibly hopeless. And even that wasn’t enough to spur them to try to find solutions as a group, it seems.
Point is, each of them seems to consider themselves their own little kingdom in many ways, helpless or completely uninterested in addressing global threats.
“Potentially.” I snorted at this. “AI” is just VR, NFT, crypto. A scam to keep big tech from having to compete.
It doesn’t matter what you think, it matters what they think. And they don’t understand their own technology and it’s limitations.
I use it everyday for work. It isn’t a scam. Not all the promises will come true but it absolutely is and will displace workforces across information and analysis heavy roles. Its also very likely to see AI become a standard new interface for computer systems, whether we want it or not.
