by system
failure
Science
fiction writer Peter Frase, in his book Four Futures, puts forward
the "robo-revelation" scenario a step further by
introducing the idea of 'exterminism': in the not too distant future,
the waves of the unemployed who have lost the latest tools of labor
demands, such as strikes, would be a direct threat to the survival of
the rich who will control the robots. Then, the owners of the new
means of production will consider the mass extermination of the
unemployed by techniques that will refer to Hitler's holocaust.
Is there any
more nightmarish scenario than this? Probably there is. At the point
where the elites will construct full self-efficient shelters with
hyper-automated robots doing all jobs, there will be no need for
'excessive' human presence. The 1% may decide to launch a nuclear war
to get rid of the armies of the poor as fast as possible, in order to
prevent the risk of a rebound from the 99%. This is probably the most
Dystopian scenario of all.
All signs
show that current culture of brutal neoliberalism has been designed
for such a purpose. While in previous decades, free market
fundamentalists were promising a capitalist paradise for the many,
the global neoliberal apparatus is transforming the ideology of
promised paradise into an ideology of necessities. In the name of
growth, competition and stability, wages and pensions must be
slaughtered, big companies must get more and more tax-cuts, state
control must be eliminated, everything must be privatized. It looks
like the 'invisible hand' dreamed by Adam Smith, is rigging the game,
buying time, in order to reach the final target: radical
extermination of the unnecessary 'load' for the elites.
And the
uncritical privatization of everything is probably the most useful
element of this evil machine that is going to burn the planet. As
robots are taking all jobs and the armies of poor will flood even the
Western developed countries, the fully privatized advanced technology
will become a monopoly for the big corporations. The armies of poor
will end up with zero access to it, and therefore, zero power to
resist against the designed holocaust. Governments and states have
already become servants of the big multinationals. They follow
blindly these 'necessities' imposed by the neoliberal regime.
How did we
ended up in this situation? The answer is that this culture of cruel
pragmatism, extreme cynicism and radical individualism, has poisoned
the minds of the many, especially in the West. Decades of brainwash
by the 'factories' of the neoliberal establishment made people accept
pathetically situations like wars, poverty, mass-killings, as
something natural that is part of human nature. Despite all protests
in the streets, the average person in the West has been trained to
compromise with such realities as something inevitable. Western
neo-rationalism has been 'equipped' with such a perception.
The
neoliberal regime now goes further to implement the final stage. As
scandals about government interceptions against millions of citizens
become a routine, people start getting used to the idea. Terrorist
attacks inside the Western urban centers are being used in the
context of a fear factory for the purpose of making people accept the
militarization of these centers. War and conflict is being rapidly
privatized with monstrous corporations - in association with the
traditional military-industrial complex - promoting for-profit wars.
This last
stage involves even the preparation of the masses for a nuclear war!
Establishment tools recruit neoliberal
“rationalism” to prepare
public for such a nightmarish perspective.
Besides,
inside current environment with the big corporations having enormous
power, patents and copyrights fully protected by the states on behalf
of private institutions, how do we know that the elites didn't
already found a cure for cancer and radioactivity? Or even a cure for
all deceases and even aging? With all that power and knowledge in
their hands, why would they share it with us? This shows why the
dominant culture promotes privatizations and uses the state only to
protect private monopolies. And why all the knowledge and
technological progress should be carried out by public institutions
so that to spread it throughout society.
Technology
evolves rapidly. Once super-intelligent machines will reach to the
point of doing anything without the need for the slightest human
interference, it could be a good time for the ruthless elites to push
the button of destruction and get rid of the rest of us for good. All
they need is someone like Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un to put in
front as minimum justification for their actions, right before the
day of nuclear Apocalypse.
An
optimistic scenario:
Nah, they won't use nuclear weapons. They will use "weaponized" viruses (viri-??) to kill off huge segments of humanity . I too have no doubt that the end game is the reduction of the human population to no more than 2 billion, and possibly less than one billion (500,000,000 as a "sustainable" global population is a figure I see cited quite a bit now.)
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