Greetings good citizen, the entire Futurist movement was born during a time when technological advances were virtually a weekly phenomenon. There have been several theories put forth for why science surged forward during that period of thirty or so years but now if you ask the question 'what's new'? The answer is 'nothing'.
Have we really exhausted the frontier of scientific research or did the patent office slam the brakes on technological advance?
How freakish to think that for a while corporate research teams did nothing but focus on filing for patents to protect the patents they already held [by closing off the avenues of research competitors might take to 'improve upon' existing technology.]
Says something about our legal/commercial system that this practice is even permitted but one must remember they [our self-professed betters] leave the 'more for me' prefix off the currently practiced brand of Capitalism.
So, technologically speaking, has there been anything 'new' since the world's first video game?
And the sad answer is, if there has been something new in the past forty years, we all remain ignorant of it.
Another 'byproduct' of the research done to prevent new research from advancing is none of these avenues were pursued and the people who filed the patents are now long dead so we have no idea what they were chasing!
What we need is forensic scientists to go back in and reopen the avenues that were shut down to prevent the one thing capitalism can't tolerate...competition.
We touched briefly yesterday on the topic of 'opportunity cost' and the, er, 'economic junkyard' left behind by the four decades of 'whiz-bang' technological advancement is staggering. Perhaps more bizarre is the mirror this holds up to our (and we didn't choose this, it was/has been/is being 'thrust upon us') 'anything for a buck' society.
More ironic is if you have an idea, they want to 'help you' bring it to market! One must keep in mind that 'invention' is the MAIN PATH provided by our self-appointed overlords to success. What they don't tell you is if you don't possess the wherewithal to bring the product to market yourself, their 'assistance' will cost you the controlling interest you originally had over the path your idea takes. No irony should be lost on the fact the the more they 'help' the smaller your share of the profits become.
So a few brief paragraphs and we uncovered why the seemingly relentless 'march of technology' stopped dead in it's tracks a couple of decades after it began.
The corporate owned media disdains anything that detracts you, the 'subservient subject' from the predatory system that feeds on you. Which is to broach a topic some of you may have tumbled to already, I am 'down on capitalism', bigtime.
If you have a problem with this [and I'm sure you do] I'm here to provide an 'alternative'. It's one thing to complain but if you don't have a 'better idea' then shut up and keep shovelling, it's getting deep over here!
Most of you realize we can't use 'the system' to alter the system, the tools deliberately don't exist. Worse, those preaching 'revolution' are offering the same crappy deal we already have, just different 'bosses' who may or (most likely) may NOT be any 'better' than the ones we are currently saddled with.
Why revolt to lose ground? How ironic those in charge today count on that very premise to push you back and to keep you backing up...accepting a weaker and weaker hand each time.
How does one revolt against freedom and liberty? What you're really rebelling against is the 'illusion of freedom' and the mock Liberty the lack of choices you are offered presents. The deck is stacked against you and if you don't believe that then there's something sticking out of the seat of your pants...
Most of us would be content with a 'level' playing field, the question is how to achieve that?
The answer is to place the law beyond the reach of the self-interested. The one 'test' that even our current society fails miserably at is the 'freedom test'. The first law on any just society's books must be an anti-exploitation law!
Making this the second or third item doesn't qualify. That the law treats all people equally must be rule number one.
If you are to have any hope of your children tasting the air of freedom you must act before the planned genocide begins! (Remember yesterday and the 'revelation' that Malthaus was right and how that fact has changed everything?)
The 'equation' for a just society is simple. The cornerstone is Equality, the second leg is Justice, which flows from equality, and the third leg is Peace, without which there can be no prosperity...
So, if we shift our focus from technology we can indeed find new ways to look at old ideas, just as those who would rob you have 're-invented'/perverted new ways to cheat you of your due.
Now that you are totally confused I'll leave you to digest this latest excursion into uncharted teritory...
Thanks for letting me inside your head!
Gegner
Have we really exhausted the frontier of scientific research or did the patent office slam the brakes on technological advance?
How freakish to think that for a while corporate research teams did nothing but focus on filing for patents to protect the patents they already held [by closing off the avenues of research competitors might take to 'improve upon' existing technology.]
Says something about our legal/commercial system that this practice is even permitted but one must remember they [our self-professed betters] leave the 'more for me' prefix off the currently practiced brand of Capitalism.
So, technologically speaking, has there been anything 'new' since the world's first video game?
And the sad answer is, if there has been something new in the past forty years, we all remain ignorant of it.
Another 'byproduct' of the research done to prevent new research from advancing is none of these avenues were pursued and the people who filed the patents are now long dead so we have no idea what they were chasing!
What we need is forensic scientists to go back in and reopen the avenues that were shut down to prevent the one thing capitalism can't tolerate...competition.
We touched briefly yesterday on the topic of 'opportunity cost' and the, er, 'economic junkyard' left behind by the four decades of 'whiz-bang' technological advancement is staggering. Perhaps more bizarre is the mirror this holds up to our (and we didn't choose this, it was/has been/is being 'thrust upon us') 'anything for a buck' society.
More ironic is if you have an idea, they want to 'help you' bring it to market! One must keep in mind that 'invention' is the MAIN PATH provided by our self-appointed overlords to success. What they don't tell you is if you don't possess the wherewithal to bring the product to market yourself, their 'assistance' will cost you the controlling interest you originally had over the path your idea takes. No irony should be lost on the fact the the more they 'help' the smaller your share of the profits become.
So a few brief paragraphs and we uncovered why the seemingly relentless 'march of technology' stopped dead in it's tracks a couple of decades after it began.
The corporate owned media disdains anything that detracts you, the 'subservient subject' from the predatory system that feeds on you. Which is to broach a topic some of you may have tumbled to already, I am 'down on capitalism', bigtime.
If you have a problem with this [and I'm sure you do] I'm here to provide an 'alternative'. It's one thing to complain but if you don't have a 'better idea' then shut up and keep shovelling, it's getting deep over here!
Most of you realize we can't use 'the system' to alter the system, the tools deliberately don't exist. Worse, those preaching 'revolution' are offering the same crappy deal we already have, just different 'bosses' who may or (most likely) may NOT be any 'better' than the ones we are currently saddled with.
Why revolt to lose ground? How ironic those in charge today count on that very premise to push you back and to keep you backing up...accepting a weaker and weaker hand each time.
How does one revolt against freedom and liberty? What you're really rebelling against is the 'illusion of freedom' and the mock Liberty the lack of choices you are offered presents. The deck is stacked against you and if you don't believe that then there's something sticking out of the seat of your pants...
Most of us would be content with a 'level' playing field, the question is how to achieve that?
The answer is to place the law beyond the reach of the self-interested. The one 'test' that even our current society fails miserably at is the 'freedom test'. The first law on any just society's books must be an anti-exploitation law!
Making this the second or third item doesn't qualify. That the law treats all people equally must be rule number one.
If you are to have any hope of your children tasting the air of freedom you must act before the planned genocide begins! (Remember yesterday and the 'revelation' that Malthaus was right and how that fact has changed everything?)
The 'equation' for a just society is simple. The cornerstone is Equality, the second leg is Justice, which flows from equality, and the third leg is Peace, without which there can be no prosperity...
So, if we shift our focus from technology we can indeed find new ways to look at old ideas, just as those who would rob you have 're-invented'/perverted new ways to cheat you of your due.
Now that you are totally confused I'll leave you to digest this latest excursion into uncharted teritory...
Thanks for letting me inside your head!
Gegner
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