One of the obvious conclusions for ordinary citizens in all this AI takeover of human activities is that, wherever possible, you should not leave yourselves exposed to AI-driven 'controlled crashes'. The world of automated stock trading, driven by algorithms, has left publicly listed stock values entirely disconnected from true enterprise value. This may or may not be a good thing in your eyes, but if things can be ridiculously overpriced, since all that controls the price is whether AI bots deem short-term price movements will be up a little or down a little, then one day, they might be ludicrously under-priced, due to a 'black swan' event crashing them from 5 X their true value to 0.2 X their true value. I would advise normal citizens to try and avoid all investments in publicly listed companies, as their valuations have zero to do with rational pricing.
Both I and Dr Day have taken up growing our own vegetables the past years - apart from all the health benefits of healthy vegetables passing through your guts, it does require you to take exercise outdoors, exposing your skin to vitamin D production, your heart and lungs to gentle exercise and your muscles to gentle stretching. It's not running a marathon, but it sure beats sitting on a couch watching TV. What IS critical is retaining access to high quality seed. Depending on how evil the nutcases end up being, that may at some stage involve setting up informal cooperatives to generate all the seeds wanted in different localities and sharing them amongst themselves. I certainly can make a subset of my seeds myself, but I've not yet mastered many of the more productive vegetables like onion, carrot, parsnip and beetroot.
As for national boundaries changing, well imperialism always was a game for little boys. The Polish boys get outraged about boundary changes hundreds of years ago. The Ukrainians the same. All Poland had to do was incite US-driven warfare, accept the son of the worst geostrategic psychopath in US history as Polish ambassador and, zippedie do-dah, soon they'll be marching into Galicia to claim their trophy. Just don't go raping women on your rampages, Mr Polish soldier....
As for US monopolies, it is intrinsic to the US psyche. You've never believed truly in freedom, because you never elect leaders who believe in it. You always elected imperialistic conquistador leaders who want one thing and one thing alone: private monopolies to extract rents for miniscule numbers of obscenely wealthy people. That started just before World War I and once the UK was weakened by the cost of WWI, the USA moved into full predatory expansion/domestic protection mode, from which it has never, ever deviated.
Because the USA simply uses everyone and everyone, imposing its dogmas with total disregard for other nation's interests, sensitivities nor dignities, it is not going to have too many friends when it collapses.
That won't matter to the master money makers. They are part of no nation, they are a mafia apart and they will simply move the pawns around the chessboard to find a new place to be rentiers, wealth extractors and political blackmailers.
But if the people of America want friends after their total financial collapse, then they are going to have to be implacably opposed to those master money makers and aver that they will hunt them down, wherever they are on earth, just as they hunted down nazis via their Israeli partners post 1945.
That will unfortunately involve some brutal power realignments, because their current masters think human life is cheap.
But it's permanent fiscal slavery for the honest Americans if you don't. Same for the honest British.
Honda just re-released the "Trail 90" in the US as the "Trail 125". I saw one today on my bike ride, and stopped to talk to the new owner, who was just starting to get familiar with it. It will go 60 mph, which is enouh. Inherently a practical vehicle, widely adapted in Asia.
enouh cracked me up, as in not quite enough, just enouh. Does look good. Here is a moto shop i just found near me, kinda fun, mostly gas...https://www.sabatinomoto.com/
The last link in this post, at the very end of a long and interesting article, could be easily overlooked, but I hope everyone will take a look at it because the article about Deagel's depopulation forecast has some information about the accuracy of their depopulation efforts that I found quite astounding.
“If technique is total, if it is all-encompassing (that is, if the system of technique integrates into itself every phenomenon that arises), if it is “assimilative” (in the sense that all revolutionary movements are ultimately assimilated), then what can escape the system of technique? From a human outlook, we see nothing that does. We therefore need a transcendence in order to escape it. Only something that belongs to neither our history nor our world can do this. I mean, of course, something that does not “essentially” belong to them, because even the most distant planets are increasingly becoming part of our system.
Well over all idea is that Technique is the backdrop of a culture which presupposes the value of efficiency and rational solutions above all others. Specialization leading to hyper specialization.
One of the obvious conclusions for ordinary citizens in all this AI takeover of human activities is that, wherever possible, you should not leave yourselves exposed to AI-driven 'controlled crashes'. The world of automated stock trading, driven by algorithms, has left publicly listed stock values entirely disconnected from true enterprise value. This may or may not be a good thing in your eyes, but if things can be ridiculously overpriced, since all that controls the price is whether AI bots deem short-term price movements will be up a little or down a little, then one day, they might be ludicrously under-priced, due to a 'black swan' event crashing them from 5 X their true value to 0.2 X their true value. I would advise normal citizens to try and avoid all investments in publicly listed companies, as their valuations have zero to do with rational pricing.
Both I and Dr Day have taken up growing our own vegetables the past years - apart from all the health benefits of healthy vegetables passing through your guts, it does require you to take exercise outdoors, exposing your skin to vitamin D production, your heart and lungs to gentle exercise and your muscles to gentle stretching. It's not running a marathon, but it sure beats sitting on a couch watching TV. What IS critical is retaining access to high quality seed. Depending on how evil the nutcases end up being, that may at some stage involve setting up informal cooperatives to generate all the seeds wanted in different localities and sharing them amongst themselves. I certainly can make a subset of my seeds myself, but I've not yet mastered many of the more productive vegetables like onion, carrot, parsnip and beetroot.
As for national boundaries changing, well imperialism always was a game for little boys. The Polish boys get outraged about boundary changes hundreds of years ago. The Ukrainians the same. All Poland had to do was incite US-driven warfare, accept the son of the worst geostrategic psychopath in US history as Polish ambassador and, zippedie do-dah, soon they'll be marching into Galicia to claim their trophy. Just don't go raping women on your rampages, Mr Polish soldier....
As for US monopolies, it is intrinsic to the US psyche. You've never believed truly in freedom, because you never elect leaders who believe in it. You always elected imperialistic conquistador leaders who want one thing and one thing alone: private monopolies to extract rents for miniscule numbers of obscenely wealthy people. That started just before World War I and once the UK was weakened by the cost of WWI, the USA moved into full predatory expansion/domestic protection mode, from which it has never, ever deviated.
Because the USA simply uses everyone and everyone, imposing its dogmas with total disregard for other nation's interests, sensitivities nor dignities, it is not going to have too many friends when it collapses.
That won't matter to the master money makers. They are part of no nation, they are a mafia apart and they will simply move the pawns around the chessboard to find a new place to be rentiers, wealth extractors and political blackmailers.
But if the people of America want friends after their total financial collapse, then they are going to have to be implacably opposed to those master money makers and aver that they will hunt them down, wherever they are on earth, just as they hunted down nazis via their Israeli partners post 1945.
That will unfortunately involve some brutal power realignments, because their current masters think human life is cheap.
But it's permanent fiscal slavery for the honest Americans if you don't. Same for the honest British.
It's already upon the honest Germans.....
And why I will not ride in electric cars....AI driven crashes quite possible there!
Honda just re-released the "Trail 90" in the US as the "Trail 125". I saw one today on my bike ride, and stopped to talk to the new owner, who was just starting to get familiar with it. It will go 60 mph, which is enouh. Inherently a practical vehicle, widely adapted in Asia.
enouh cracked me up, as in not quite enough, just enouh. Does look good. Here is a moto shop i just found near me, kinda fun, mostly gas...https://www.sabatinomoto.com/
Weak keyboard skips, and when I hit keys harder it doubles...
When I went back to insert that "g" it took 2 tries.
Roger That, Rhys.
I'm experimenting with Korean melons this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_melon
The last link in this post, at the very end of a long and interesting article, could be easily overlooked, but I hope everyone will take a look at it because the article about Deagel's depopulation forecast has some information about the accuracy of their depopulation efforts that I found quite astounding.
Thanks Lili. A few of us have wondered about this since it came out.
I have a seen a few references to the Deagel report, but no where the details presented in this article in The Exposé. Thank you for posting it!
“If technique is total, if it is all-encompassing (that is, if the system of technique integrates into itself every phenomenon that arises), if it is “assimilative” (in the sense that all revolutionary movements are ultimately assimilated), then what can escape the system of technique? From a human outlook, we see nothing that does. We therefore need a transcendence in order to escape it. Only something that belongs to neither our history nor our world can do this. I mean, of course, something that does not “essentially” belong to them, because even the most distant planets are increasingly becoming part of our system.
We need a transcendence. “ Ellul
Those are very broad strokes of the conceptual brush. I think they may be too broad, but I can't really tell what you mean, so I'm not sure.
:-)
Well over all idea is that Technique is the backdrop of a culture which presupposes the value of efficiency and rational solutions above all others. Specialization leading to hyper specialization.
Sometimes generalists are the right kind of "specialists".