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Originally Posted by freebeard
Advanced technologies vs advancing technologies AKA coal vs magic photovoltaic rocks.
Politics follows culture. The 'invisible hand' is not a bad concept, it just needs to be updated for the age of Artificial Intelligence. Bucky Fuller predicted that we would willingly fall in line. The only thing holding us back is nihilism.
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*We don't know anything before Sumer,except for maybe China.For the Chinese,the military industrial complex was the beginning of statecraft.The capacity for defense or conquest undergirded the entire structure of power.
Sun Tsu's Art of War is still a staple for military academies and corporate boardrooms today.
*Much has been written on the Roman Empire.In addition to headcount conscription and warfare,they had a system of client/patron relationship,benefiting senators and business,which today is reflected in modern government and rule of law.Non-persons which have wealth and more of a vote than real people can hire lobbyists to do there bidding in Congress.
*Elections and re-elections are made on this money stream.
*Capitalism dates to at least,the joint-stock corporate slave-owning gladiator industry in Rome,and has worked for some.It's probably the most expensive way to get anything done.Adam Smith didn't trust it.As he wrote the Wealth of Nations,our forefathers were fighting a revolutionary war,in part,to throw off the burden of taxation to subsidize business losses of the British East India Company.(The Revolutionary War against Armed Capitalists)
*If all data were inputted into,to,say the cloud,it would be interesting to see what kind of decisions came out if we got to ask the questions.
*If we actually had education it would be very interesting to see what human behavior looked like.Here in Texas,critical thinking is legally banned from public school curriculum,which defeats the premise of democracy,which depends upon an informed populace.
*Nihilism is alive and well.I know plenty who are addicted to it.It's an easy path once begun.