Human society continues to careen towards multiple great filters it is ill-prepared to navigate, and the trillion-dollar propaganda machine that got Trump elected works. We just may not be evolved to cooperate at the level that gets us to community-based governments without monied interests interfering.
Mark Twain invested his money into the Paige Compositor, an automated mechanical typesetter, which had over a thousand moving parts in an era that lacked the capacity for precision molding. Babbage constructed the difference engine 2 which worked like a charm when built by students a century later, but he was defunded at the wrong time.
Sometimes we’re just not ready for good ideas, and not capable of implementing them at the time they are discovered.
Cool. Now do it.
It’s a long process, especially since people who have a lot of power really, really, really want to keep it.
For now the process is getting people on the same page. Or as a certain poet put it:
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be one
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
For example, I already don’t like you for quoting Jon Lennon
I wouldn’t hold my breath either.
Human society continues to careen towards multiple great filters it is ill-prepared to navigate, and the trillion-dollar propaganda machine that got Trump elected works. We just may not be evolved to cooperate at the level that gets us to community-based governments without monied interests interfering.
Mark Twain invested his money into the Paige Compositor, an automated mechanical typesetter, which had over a thousand moving parts in an era that lacked the capacity for precision molding. Babbage constructed the difference engine 2 which worked like a charm when built by students a century later, but he was defunded at the wrong time.
Sometimes we’re just not ready for good ideas, and not capable of implementing them at the time they are discovered.