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Neoliberal Feudalism's avatar

Nice post. The pursuit of technology is a catch 22, like most things in life. A blind focus on technological progress provides power advantages over others, therefore all nations and leaders pursue it; but it comes with it a loss of humanity, a loss of individual privacy and control and freedom and birthrates, the decline of mankind down to that of a widgit, to be used and discarded by the establishment at their will.

Serious religious communities like the Amish, Orthodox Jews, and seriously religious Muslims are much more resistant to these processes as reflected by their much higher birthrates (Mormon birthrates are plummeting as they succumb to globohomo; it seems like all other Christian communities have declining birthrates as well...), but their natural growth rates are swamped by vastly increased illegal immigration rates.

The question of whether or not technology could be harnessed to improve humanity instead of improve the power of elites is an interesting one; it would certainly take a different kind of elites, ones with noblesse oblige instead of noblesse malice and ones with time horizons and motivations beyond just their continued control and punishment of the masses, if it is possible at all...

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Michael V. Hawthorne's avatar

I enjoy your section on writing aids. Hemingway is a nice tool but I hate how it neuters my writing style, voice, and rhetoric.

This thought process is also a massive theme in the Dune series. Developing the power of the human mind vs. handing it off to a machine.

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