Re: New 0ptout?
Mark Ferguson
civilisation forward, an overview is required. You have to be able to
step back and examine the structure of a problem. This is what Thinking,
Reasoning, is. Every political campaign waged in the G-7 countries has
as its centerpiece Job Creation. Polls give the politicians a list of
voter concerns. Job Creation is at the top of the list. Ergo, the
politicians promise Jobs. Because the Female Void dominates proceedings
(simply because the Female Void dominates everything), a candidate is
elected based on how he or she makes the electorate Feel. We Feel we can
Trust this candidate. No effort is made to step back and ask, "Isn't the
whole point of technology to eliminate work?" Reason would tell you that
you can either eliminate (or limit) technology or you can eliminate (or
limit) jobs. It is not possible to have it both ways. The Female Void
Emotional response is that we have to have it both ways. And so we do.
And so the problem gets worse instead of better.
I think of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, the
Continental Congress, Illuminated Thinking, the Finest Hour of the Male
Light, dealing with the specific problems of Independence. What did they
want to do? What did they not want to do? What innovations had past
cultures brought to bear on limiting the ability of government to
interfere in the lives of its citizens? Where had other cultures gone
wrong and what could be done to prevent and correct those mistakes? They
did brilliant work. Brilliant work. I am reasonably certain that such
Male Light yet exists in our day and age, and I am equally certain that
it avoids the political arena like the plague. In our Female Void Age it
is the sole job of elected officials to make the electorate feel good
about them frequently enough to get re-elected. Re-election is largely a
matter of provoking a positive emotional response within a narrow time
frame through televised portrayal, the raising of sufficient funds to
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