Greetings good citizen, for those unfamiliar with the origin of Elysium, it was a special island in the afterlife reserved for Greeks who died heroic deaths, although in the film of the same name starring Matt Damon, Elysium was an orbiting enclave for the uber-wealthy to escape the planet they poisoned and left for dead.
Since this floating experiment in stupidity doesn't offer the refuge of space it's denizens will have to be much more careful of what they flaunt.
Truly good citizen, the search for the 'greater fool' continues to confound logic and we can only wonder how things got this far.
Like automation has led to AI (robots can only do so much) this independent state of wealth that makes its own laws and will undoubtedly be first and foremost a 'tax haven' (although you have to 'pay the help' somehow...)
Will this new Elysium be so clean and modern that the destitute would sell themselves just to be part of it? What about twenty years later when the place is threatening to sink because the contractors 'forgot/skimped' on anti-corrosive coatings and the stiff HOA fees fail to cover the projected cost of overhaul?
Will those same 'volunteers' be abandoned in place as they are replaced by 2nd generation automatons with new and improved cybernetic controls?
Dunno what their laws will let them get away with but most of these screwball utopias are decidedly Libertarian, meaning the only 'rights' you have are the ones you BUY!
Anybody can do whatever they want so long as they pay for it. Now extend that thought another step, if you decide to kill your bought and paid for sex worker, are you still obliged to pay them? Since not paying them would make it murder, how much is enough to snuff the life of another? Is leaving a dollar on the dresser enough to exonerate you?
What's an 'agreement' if only one member survives it? It's whatever the survivor says it was...and that ain't right.
Aren't humans always trying to 'get over' on one another? Regardless, it's the 'defining feature' of lawless Libertarianism...what should disturb you deeply is it's also the 'next/final step' of unbridled capitalism. The law is whatever I pay it to be. (You don't even have to get up off the couch to see that today.)
Nobody signed on for that deal but that's where this is headed.
It's the ultimate in mental illness if we return to square one, where money [which IS FAKE] becomes the justification for 'anything goes!'
We don't need F. Scott Fitzgerald to tell us the rich aren't like you and me...we already know but for reasons unexplained we have done nothing about them.
The 'Money is all' mindset is driven by the psychopaths who rule us with impunity. Society itself has turned toxic, they must be STOPPED.
Problem is nobody knows where to begin.
The problem, as always, is the dog that won't hunt. It won't leave YOU alone because it knows you won't harm it but it's afraid of the ones that make their own rules because they often own their bosses and objective number one for anyone working for a paycheck is keeping that sucker coming because life doesn't stop.
It's only after the fact that the freaks wearing robes will cry, of course you didn't have to do that, we would have made an exception! [But this is always post-facto, while you're in the shit, you're on your own.]
Did you hear that the latest crop of commencement speeches are peppered with warnings? Many of them start by telling graduates, the lucky recipients of the trillion dollar tax-cut supercharged economy are being told to 'EXPECT THE WORST'.
Problem is these kids have no inkling what that is supposed to mean. For decades now college graduates that didn't have a 'in' anywhere languished on the desiccated job markets waiting for things to 'turn around'.
We can once again thank our feckless corporate owned media for not reporting the real force driving the GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS and that is the COLLAPSE OF CAPITALISM!
The exponential reduction in the demand for labor has forced millions to flee to 'wherever they think the jobs are'...even if those jobs don't pay enough to live on.
Why are we rushing into nuclear war? Because the rich don't want to be holding the bag when the world discovers its commerce system is behind all of its problems!
Ironically we can change that TOMORROW without skipping a beat but life without capitalism is unthinkable for those who were weaned on a gilded teat.
They don't want a level playing field and/because they don't want to be held accountable...
"Welcome to reality A-hole, now keep walking until you reach the horizon!" 'But there's nothing over there!' "Bad news, there's nothing behind you either."
Just as YOU want someone to fix this for you, they don't want to be 'rehabilitated'. They have no desired to change who they are and removing them from their thrones removes their reason for existing. [The last thing they want to hear is how much they sucked at their 'job', such as it was.]
Looks like we have a match, you don't want to fix the shithole you've been buried in and they don't want to set you free!
Well, ol' 'it ain't so bad', guess what lies in this direction?
Extinction.
No surprise the feckless prefer extinction to surrendering their insane grip on what they perceive to be 'power'.
Well, I belabor the obvious when I point out that somebody has to step up and put on the 'Big Boy' pants, even if they aren't male.
'Clear eyed' is all a leader requires and most modern people don't possess what it takes...as evidenced by by what passes for 'intellect' on the corporate owned media.
Will our outraged children continue to gun one another down, the last two didn't kill themselves so either the whole point of going out in a 'blaze of glory' is lost on them or these kids just O.D'd on Call of Duty/Fortnight.
How toxic is that? Kids thinking 'wouldn't it be cool to play this for real?'
Seriously, are we really that 'profit crazy' that we have brought this upon ourselves?
That's enough for today, just something to chew on until next time...
Gegner
Since this floating experiment in stupidity doesn't offer the refuge of space it's denizens will have to be much more careful of what they flaunt.
Truly good citizen, the search for the 'greater fool' continues to confound logic and we can only wonder how things got this far.
Like automation has led to AI (robots can only do so much) this independent state of wealth that makes its own laws and will undoubtedly be first and foremost a 'tax haven' (although you have to 'pay the help' somehow...)
Will this new Elysium be so clean and modern that the destitute would sell themselves just to be part of it? What about twenty years later when the place is threatening to sink because the contractors 'forgot/skimped' on anti-corrosive coatings and the stiff HOA fees fail to cover the projected cost of overhaul?
Will those same 'volunteers' be abandoned in place as they are replaced by 2nd generation automatons with new and improved cybernetic controls?
Dunno what their laws will let them get away with but most of these screwball utopias are decidedly Libertarian, meaning the only 'rights' you have are the ones you BUY!
Anybody can do whatever they want so long as they pay for it. Now extend that thought another step, if you decide to kill your bought and paid for sex worker, are you still obliged to pay them? Since not paying them would make it murder, how much is enough to snuff the life of another? Is leaving a dollar on the dresser enough to exonerate you?
What's an 'agreement' if only one member survives it? It's whatever the survivor says it was...and that ain't right.
Aren't humans always trying to 'get over' on one another? Regardless, it's the 'defining feature' of lawless Libertarianism...what should disturb you deeply is it's also the 'next/final step' of unbridled capitalism. The law is whatever I pay it to be. (You don't even have to get up off the couch to see that today.)
Nobody signed on for that deal but that's where this is headed.
It's the ultimate in mental illness if we return to square one, where money [which IS FAKE] becomes the justification for 'anything goes!'
We don't need F. Scott Fitzgerald to tell us the rich aren't like you and me...we already know but for reasons unexplained we have done nothing about them.
The 'Money is all' mindset is driven by the psychopaths who rule us with impunity. Society itself has turned toxic, they must be STOPPED.
Problem is nobody knows where to begin.
The problem, as always, is the dog that won't hunt. It won't leave YOU alone because it knows you won't harm it but it's afraid of the ones that make their own rules because they often own their bosses and objective number one for anyone working for a paycheck is keeping that sucker coming because life doesn't stop.
It's only after the fact that the freaks wearing robes will cry, of course you didn't have to do that, we would have made an exception! [But this is always post-facto, while you're in the shit, you're on your own.]
Did you hear that the latest crop of commencement speeches are peppered with warnings? Many of them start by telling graduates, the lucky recipients of the trillion dollar tax-cut supercharged economy are being told to 'EXPECT THE WORST'.
Problem is these kids have no inkling what that is supposed to mean. For decades now college graduates that didn't have a 'in' anywhere languished on the desiccated job markets waiting for things to 'turn around'.
We can once again thank our feckless corporate owned media for not reporting the real force driving the GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS and that is the COLLAPSE OF CAPITALISM!
The exponential reduction in the demand for labor has forced millions to flee to 'wherever they think the jobs are'...even if those jobs don't pay enough to live on.
Why are we rushing into nuclear war? Because the rich don't want to be holding the bag when the world discovers its commerce system is behind all of its problems!
Ironically we can change that TOMORROW without skipping a beat but life without capitalism is unthinkable for those who were weaned on a gilded teat.
They don't want a level playing field and/because they don't want to be held accountable...
"Welcome to reality A-hole, now keep walking until you reach the horizon!" 'But there's nothing over there!' "Bad news, there's nothing behind you either."
Just as YOU want someone to fix this for you, they don't want to be 'rehabilitated'. They have no desired to change who they are and removing them from their thrones removes their reason for existing. [The last thing they want to hear is how much they sucked at their 'job', such as it was.]
Looks like we have a match, you don't want to fix the shithole you've been buried in and they don't want to set you free!
Well, ol' 'it ain't so bad', guess what lies in this direction?
Extinction.
No surprise the feckless prefer extinction to surrendering their insane grip on what they perceive to be 'power'.
Well, I belabor the obvious when I point out that somebody has to step up and put on the 'Big Boy' pants, even if they aren't male.
'Clear eyed' is all a leader requires and most modern people don't possess what it takes...as evidenced by by what passes for 'intellect' on the corporate owned media.
Will our outraged children continue to gun one another down, the last two didn't kill themselves so either the whole point of going out in a 'blaze of glory' is lost on them or these kids just O.D'd on Call of Duty/Fortnight.
How toxic is that? Kids thinking 'wouldn't it be cool to play this for real?'
Seriously, are we really that 'profit crazy' that we have brought this upon ourselves?
That's enough for today, just something to chew on until next time...
Gegner
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