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If you're a devout atheist like me, those kinds of attempts at social engineering make partial sense. That is, if humans are no different than any other species, then logic would suggest they can be guided & governed according to long standing principles of animal husbandry.

But this is where the social engineers get it wrong - they miscalculated when intelligence is introduced into the equation. If intelligence is present, then given the fundamental doubling power of knowledge (standard exponential function), science will always outpace culture.

It doesn't matter if they were to achieve power via the social stresses you reference from Romans (as an aside, the Romans did have human organization & control systems already figured out, hence the name of the chapters). The dual path of genetic (re)engineering and light/energy pulse systems (aka 'computers') would still naturally converge, rendering all their efforts useless.

If you see what is occurring, and are engaged at some level, then you begin to understand the futility of the ants racing around the ant farm.

[HLPhat]

>>naturally converge

Aka Tranhumanism / Postgenderism.

There is nothing new under the Aten.

Mistah Kurzweil, he dead!

[HLPhat]

>>then you begin to understand the futility of the ants racing around the ant farm.

Couple of years ago I noticed some ants raiding one of my bee hives.

Here's one of the marauders caught in the act of dragging off one of the larvae from the hive (which didn't survive):

So I scooped up a couple of the ants and put them in a petrify-dish for my daughter to study under her microscope.

I injured one of the ants in the process.

What I subsequently observed surprised me:  the uninjured ant kept tending the injured one, caressing its antennas, moving here and there apparently trying to coax the dying sister into movement.  This went on for hours.  Ended up feeling so guilty I couldn't watch any more and took them back outside to release for nature to take its course.

Ant Empathy.

Ant Anthropomorphism? Maybe - but it made me think humans could learn a thing or two from studying the interaction of social insects.

Human culture has become desensitized - and THAT was engineered just as surely as its demoralization.

What phase are we in?

[Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion and Control of Western Society (Complete)]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3591491/posts

Hmmm. 200. Years. Together.

What does this mean.