This hurts because when I was really young and learning about all the terrible things in human history I was comforted by the idea of a “they” that had learned from our past and that’s why all these horrific things won’t happen again.
Way to miss the point. All those things he mentioned could exist, and it wouldn’t matter because they’d all have conflicting priorities and directions they want to go in resulting in effectively the same basic situation as if they didn’t exist.
The world isn’t rudderless, in fact its the opposite. There are so many rudder that they run into each other constantly and get in each other’s way. Occasionally you can get a group of people to aim them in roughly the same direction for a little while, but they inevitably decide their direction is better than yours. If you’re lucky they’re on the outside edge of the group.
… and the billionaires keep kicking things and flipping random switches to try to wrench the world into their favored shape, and the rest of us are trapped on this ship with them.
I’m sure he’d loathe the comparison but this reminded me of an Alan Moore quote
This hurts because when I was really young and learning about all the terrible things in human history I was comforted by the idea of a “they” that had learned from our past and that’s why all these horrific things won’t happen again.
See and for me I don’t find that frightening at all. Embrace the chaos.
Lmao. Ever heard of AIPAC?
No. What is it?
Way to miss the point. All those things he mentioned could exist, and it wouldn’t matter because they’d all have conflicting priorities and directions they want to go in resulting in effectively the same basic situation as if they didn’t exist.
Oh so just wrong then
The people who are in positions of power would love for the fiction that we are all rudderless to take hold.
The world isn’t rudderless, in fact its the opposite. There are so many rudder that they run into each other constantly and get in each other’s way. Occasionally you can get a group of people to aim them in roughly the same direction for a little while, but they inevitably decide their direction is better than yours. If you’re lucky they’re on the outside edge of the group.
… and the billionaires keep kicking things and flipping random switches to try to wrench the world into their favored shape, and the rest of us are trapped on this ship with them.