Read these for the REAL TRUTH about Communism !
The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom Hardcover – May 9, 2017
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Or has taken too much drugs?
I have huge doubts, but no more factory farming would be a blessing.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
— Richard Brautigan (1967)
Communism is evil.
Does NYT not want us to know that Communism is only good for those at the top, or are they too stupid themselves to know?
Personally I don't think it would work even then, it's simply against human nature. If it came to that point, people would compete over who had the biggest, fastest replicator or who could materialize the nicest house and clothes.
Paid for by the ....... rich? Who won’t be around after their money is taken, then back to being enslaved.
Throw in some maggots, crickets and inchworms too. For added flavor. Then eat the concoction, you f****** hypocrites! instead of eating caviar and fillet mignon, you filthy slobs! I’ll eat what I like.
This ‘technology’ is essentially just cell culture - which has been around for a long, long, time. They are culturing myoblasts. It takes a whole lot of myoblasts to make a hamburger.. This requires lots of culture media, probably a variety of growth factors, and at the end of the day I would want a very, very extensive characterization of what’s in this before considering eating it. That said, it could work.
>>The author has watched too many episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.<<
God bless the Ferengi. After “we are too far evolved to use filthy money” the Ferengi were 100% clear: money is how we acquire. Aquisition requires money. Screw your egalitarian crap Federation. Captain Picard is paid the same as Ensign Redshirt? Yeah, right.
DS9 was a MUCH MORE REALISTIC portrayal of people in the next century. Holo porn, dabo girls, gambling — it may be distasteful but that is the very definition of freedom.
This said in a city where every welfare bum has a cell phone? The author's argument is essentially, "Capitalism has created unprecedented wealth and the potential for fantastic technological progress - let's get rid of it!" Some folks are too stubbornly dumb to teach without whacking them with a rolled-up newspaper.
One of the great lines from ST:TNG.
CDR. William T Riker: “We no longer enslave animals for food purposes.”
It was intended to show how much more morally advanced they were over us in the 20th Century, but it leaves one wondering for which purposes they continued to enslave animals.
Aaron Bastani, the emperor of Dumbassistan.
Actually what the world needs is to start paying rent. The planets landlord claims it’s been a couple thousand years. Lol.
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Author is delusional.
"Ours is an age of crisis. We inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages, of climate breakdown and the collapse of democratic politics. A world where billions, mostly in the global south, live in poverty. A world defined by inequality."
Word thinking trumps any connection to reality in the article. A crisis is declared (no objective contrast with history), terms of badness are enumerated, and a glorious solution declared by removing the one thing that is getting us anywhere close to that goal.
No notice is taken that abject poverty has plummeted from majority thru history to single digit % in a few decades.
Growth may not be as high as it was, but is still in a historically high range. Low end productivity has risen; baseline standards are redefined. US poverty line is at 80th percentile of world income, which in turn has increased.
Climate is not broken. Change requires careful detection to discern, and measurements are debatable.
Democratic politics faces collapse only because Democrats refuse to accept outcome of elections.
Poverty exists, increasingly suffering from 1st world problems instead of 4th.
Having simply declared bad all things capitalist, author then hails sci-fi solutionsl (lab grown meat, asteroid mining, pervasive robotics) while explicitly disallowing the one thing motivating all progress toward those goals: profit motive.
Progressives chronically assume productivity & progress motivated & facilitated by profit will continue without it. They want Elon Musk to succeed (rockets, electric cars) without allowing the incentive of riche$ nor financial tools (able to throw billion$ at a problem fast).
Sam Walton made goods cheap & available, hiring millions in the process. Wouldn't have done without profit to enjoy & leverage.
Jeff Bezos made everything available to all, easy catalog/ordering/delivery. Motivated & enabled by profit.
Progressives fail to grasp that money represents productivity, that disincentivized productivity ends it (Soviet aphorism: "they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work"). Money is not a durable natural resource needing only redistribution.
Upshot: the article is not satire, it is distilled economic fantasy earnestly believed by many who believe their purpose is to slay the goose that they may enjoy endless golden eggs.
Tribbles taste just fine if marinated and grilled.
