North Stoke Life

When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s racism was really bad and real.  And over time this died out as indigenous peoples discovered everything was mostly fine. YEs there were still the enclaves of cultures who still hated us and refused to be friends. But over the past couple of decades the socialism cult could no longer rely on the working class who they'd been exploiting for over a century. This constituency came crashing down when the red wall voted resoundingly against the Labour Party in Britain for example.  Similar events happened globally as the cult lost its steam and for good reason - it's memeber only ever wanted power and control.  So socialism across the world needed a new large class of people to exploit for votes and power, now the working class had finally rumbled them and made their exit. Something to note is that socialism always hates its primary constituency, even when it's giving it power. And oh my goodness how much more they hate them when betray...

 

My feeling is that when a society has grown so wealthy that it no longer needs to fear about shortages, starvation, poverty etc, it cannot cope with it!  Society needs an existential threat as part of life.  Like a primordial instinct if you like from times when it was necessary to keep us on our toes during good times because we knew real danger was always just around the corner. But today, with enormous power to produce wealth, with general widespread threat to life a distant historic memory, a deep anxiety develops in all people. There is no threat any more. Yet we still need to feel threat as part of everyday life - it's in our 'genes'. This anxiety develops into fear.  The current mode to mitigate the fear is to create imaginary threats out of nothing.  We create imaginary enemies, demons, conspiracy theories, evil people to be exterminated...to get rid of the fear.  Even if that results in untold harm and a booming excess death toll. Which it does and can ...

Did you know 73 million unborn humans are killed by grown up people every year? Yet silence! Is this the biggest genocide in all history, by a mile. Or just a statistic? 73 million disembodied spirits. Every soul a battlefield.

Cloudflare, the world's second largest content delivery network, recently said that Bot traffic will be a thousand times greater than human traffic within a few years. This implies, more work will be done, per unit hour of labour employed. So the action will be like a gigantic new labour saving device. A great thing, no? This seems to be why some people are saying there will soon be so much money in the world, no one will go without.  Even if there are groups of mad people trying to destroy the world, of whom there are many right now, this new wealth will *still* overwhelm these psychopaths, this new labour saving device has so much new power to produce more wealth.  Unless... all the gains end up in economic rent. Which has always been the final sink of wealth for every labour saving invention since the dawn. Nothing has changed fundamentally in spite of people calling it innovation. What has certainly changed is the scale of it iteratively. And that is not innovation.  ...