Fittest?

Greetings good citizen, it seems you aren't the only one worried about social collapse

After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys – yes, all men – from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world. After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology.

They had come with questions of their own.

They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.

Which region will be less affected by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?”

The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot hack that takes everything down.

It’s a reduction of human evolution to a video game won by finding the escape hatch and bringing BFFs along for the ride

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed in time.

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Um, maybe now isn't a good time to point out that even the planet's richest are contemplating their fate when the 'Lord of the Flies' game goes global.

Left unexplained and unexplored is whether or not the initial collapse of capitalism [market saturation...back in the 70's] didn't drive the events that have followed. [The Debt Patch used to solve the market saturation glitch has proven toxic and there isn't a way to 'reverse it' short of collapse/revolt that will cause 'new money' to be created...and billions of deaths...just because.]

I urge you to study the entire article. Nowhere will you find the obvious solution proposed, remaining among the Masters of the Universe is paramount!

Do I need to belabor the obvious and actually tell you that the people running our civilization are seriously mentally ill?

What additional proof do you need that money is a disease? These morons [obviously not a brain among the entire five of them!] won't save themselves if it means giving up their precious wealth and the advantages it provides them with.

But how far gone is society when the Flash asked Batman what his superpower was and he deadpanned 'I'm rich'...[see why The Bat is so popular among the LCD. All it takes to be 'super' is lots of $]

How odd that our 'self-styled' supermen fail to recognize it is their 'superpower' that is causing civilization to break apart on the shoals of social unrest? Zero irony that the crime Batman purports to fight is driven by the scarcity and hardship that makes him rich...but YOU aren't supposed to look at that.

Same way the Hedgies in today's piece don't recognize their salvation lies in SHARING what doesn't belong to THEM in the first place!

Is humanity really that far gone?

Do you think we should ask the Republicans?

[Begging the question why would we ask 'the rationally rabid' anything? We are here because of them.]

If we are to save civilization we must abandon capitalism IMMEDIATELY!

Our debt driven social model is literally choking humanity to death and nobody in charge is willing to cut the noose!

Is this the kind of people we need leading us?

If we don't remove them they will continue to fumble along trying to make the impossible function.

As 'The Donald' has illustrated for us with astounding clarity, RICH does NOT equal SMART!

Just as the privately owned media is more concerned with its own preservation than the truth.

Don't want to over-tax anybody's belief system so we'll just put a cork in it and let the rest sink in for those it hasn't already bounced off of.

Thanks once again for letting me inside your mind,

Gegner