Posted on 06/21/2019 2:47:54 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
The Left is no longer keeping their love for communism a secret. They conveniently overlook the many millions that system has murdered and its consistent economic failures and now now promote it as something very desireable.
The latest shtick in communism promotion is via the device of science fiction to look at a future of robot communism or "Fully Automated Luxury Communism" (FALC) in which people no longer need to work because robots take care of their needs. Ironically, such a future could never be attained under communism because the most advanced technology has always been developed under capitalism so perhaps a more proper name should be "Fully Automated Luxury Capitalism" (and the FALC initials could be kept the same).
The Atlantic Magazine writer promoting this robot communism future is Annie Lowrey, wife of Ezra Klein who created JournoList, for liberal robot journalists to secretly control their talking points messaging, as well as one of the founders of Vox which is currently attempting to force wide scale censorship on YouTube against conservatives who refuse to be absorbed by the liberal Borg.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
And, who maintains the robots?
Other robots?
So “it’s robots all the way down?”
What if I drop a bucket of maple syrup on one of them?
Yes. It wouldn’t be communism.
But this is the future.
Not in our lifetime, but our kids.
Fully Automated Communism could also heap the corpses of potential regime opponents much larger and quicker than old-fashioned communism.
“What if I drop a bucket of maple syrup on one of them?”
That sounds like a reference to something I’m not familiar with.
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We’ll be clean when their work is done
We’ll be eternally free yes and eternally young
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
-Donald Fagen
This is even more dishonest than most Newsbusters' drivel.
Annie Lowrey is reviewing a book by Aaron Bastani who's an advocate of FALC.
Far from endorsing or promoting his proposal Lowrey is profundly skeptical, saying:
"Bastani is certain about the viability of all of this, yet has a topsy-turvy understanding of recent history and the contemporary economy. He fails to give capitalism much credit for moving billions of lives out of poverty, for instance, and fails to recognize the preeminence of race and racism in explaining the success of President Donald Trump or Europe’s far right. He has a long argument with Francis Fukuyama, underpants-gnomes away the political difficulty of what he describes, and seems awfully sure about the potential of space mining. But the vision is compelling and the terminology is useful."
By calling this criticism promotion Gladnik is treating his readers as gullible, hopefully-clicking suckers.
This is nothing more than trying to implement Star Trek’s economic world view. They had machines to make anything, “tea, earl gray, hot.” They also did not use money, and were not interested in material things, but gaining knowledge.
And, who maintains the robots?
Other robots?
So “it’s robots all the way down?”
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I’ve seen that movie before. It doesn’t end well for the humans once the robots revolt.
To me, it sounds like as big a nightmare as plain old communism. It's impossible anyway --somebody is going to have to work -- and, besides, we are designed to work and we derive part of our meaning from productive labor. The young girl at the coffee shop today who made my black coffee and my wife's frappe obviously enjoyed what she was doing. She seemed personable and intelligent and will no doubt move onto something she enjoys even more, as most of us do. This robot communism is as ignorant of human nature as the plain old communism is.
Yeah, Lowrey is claiming that RACISM is the explanation for Trump’s success. Some skepticism. She has one brief caveat and the rest of her article hypes robot COMMUNISM. Oh, and not a word from her about the bloody past of Communism nor its economic failures.
BTW, Steve Job’s wife just bought ownership of the Atlantic and steals content.n
They think that “Riders of the Purple Wage” and other science fiction works are recommendations of what to do. And they think it is POSSIBLE.
Even “Star Trek” could be in this category. There is relatively little people must do aside from a few mechanics, pilots and system administrators. Everyone else just lives in an industrially replicated apartment building, replicates whatever they want, recycles what they don’t want, and plays games all day.
Are you seriously defending this piece?
The whole thrust is that an Atlantic writer is pushing robot communism when what she's really doing is reviewing a book.
She has one brief caveat and the rest of her article hypes robot COMMUNISM.
Here's the link to her review: Give Us Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Please point out an example of her hyping anything, not just describing other people's ideas.
Oh, and not a word from her about the bloody past of Communism nor its economic failures.
It's a book review.
Interesting.
Should say “Stears” content. My iPad some times changes things, sorry,
The commies want robots doing the mass killing so that when humans overthrow the commie elite, they can say the “robots did it”. A good counter to this book’s ideas would be to make a movie where instead of an evil monopolistic capitalist corporation ( aka Terminator ) you have an evil monopolistic commie dictatorship running the show. But commie hollyweird would never do it
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