I think you underestimate the impact of technological progress.
Back in the day, you needed an army who could betray you. Tomorrow, you can deploy a fleet of self-governing robots to kill thousands. Of course, only accessible to the rich.
For ordinary folk, the future is looking grim indeed.
Yeah. And they're not even killing off the Germans! This doesn't make any sense!
Hmm hmm. I'd recommend reading this: https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too
It argues for why capital punishment is not necessarily a good route to go.
Yes, slavery. It's been around for ages.
In 1962 there were no "lethal autonomous weapons".
YES YES YES. Some linguistic part of my mind just had an orgasm.
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Gravity set the stage for the ball to fall downwards, free of charge common sense concludes.
So how do you actually do this? Doesn't 'tinkering things together' require quite a bit of knowledge in electrical engineering, mechanics, plumbing, and carpentry?
I know it's DIY, but god damn until I learn my lessons I'll lose two fingers, my eyebrows and probably an eye.
In Rhode Island, for example, oil companies say the judge hearing their case created the “appearance of bias” by citing two news stories about climate change that had not been entered into the record.
In Hawaii, a conservative group is casting doubt on the objectivity of a judge because he’s involved in an organization that provides legal education on climate science, among other topics.
Winning tactic? Questioning state judges’ objectivity doesn’t appear to be making much headway for the industry so far.
Seems like the white suits in the oil industry have decided to go fishing. Soon they'll revert to the desperate fallback argument - God: "God put this oil here for us to use."
This is fantastic, thank you posting this. ❤️🔥 (Both OP and this quote.)
From an evolutionary perspective, only the ones who survive matter.
So in that spirit, the only way to create a society resistant to power consolidations is one that actively recognizes, seeks out and annihilates said power consolidations.
As otherwise, they will annihilate everything opposing them -- as history tells us.
There are gentler social traditions to distribute wealth and power so as to avoid consolidation. Probably the post-colonial world is beyond that point.
A scary prospect, to be sure, but in the grand scheme of things.. "The secrets of evolution are time and death" as Carl Sagan said in Cosmos.