This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.
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Charles U. Farleyreplied to Charles U. Farley last edited by
@ArneBab I think Cory Doctorow's novella "Masque of the Red Death" does a good job of laying out what would actually happen if billionaires retreated to fortresses like that.
That scenario really doesn't concern me right now. The one that concerns me is the one that's happening in front of our eyes as we speak. We are well into the first stages of ecofascism, and in the Anglosphere and most of Europe even the supposed "left" parties are fully on board with it.
It's not going to be about preserving the planet for "humanity", or through "degrowth". We're going to preserve the planet for "us" (i.e. people like those who have the power) through eugenics. And I don't mean any kind of obvious population control or anything like that; simply the act of letting people live or die based on the circumstances of their birth, in the name of borders, "sovereignty", "security".
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Charles U. Farleyreplied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict @williampietri This is David Brin's thinking with his "transparent society". Yet I never see any mention of *how* we will make things work that way. We gave the cops bodycams. They turn them off when they want to do something bad, and then they suffer no consequences for it. If we can't make that happen, how are we going to force far more powerful people to allow themselves to be subjected to surveillance.
IMO the whole idea of "the transparent society" is a Trojan Horse. Police bodycams are certainly used to surveil everyone else. The people they don't effectively surveil are the ones they were supposedly intended to surveil. Isn't that how all of this kind of legislation ultimately ends up getting twisted?
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Charles U. Farley last edited by
@freakazoid @williampietri there is always a way to twist technology.
Take for example citizen surveillance of cops and the cops play loud music so that when the video is posted to YouTube there's a copyright strike.