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Beautifully written and optimistic, but I would like to advise caution. There is only one currency in existence: Power. Historically, power has been proportion
by FD3SA 13y ago
Beautifully written and optimistic, but I would like to advise caution. There is only one currency in existence: Power.
Historically, power has been proportional to a willing population. Technology allows power to be decoupled from population, allowing a very tiny minority to exert massive global power. This is the real danger, whether it takes the form of government, corporation, elites or cults.
As power asymmetry becomes more and more pronounced due to technology, the average person becomes far more prone to subjugation. This is the reality we face. This enemy is far more challenging to fight than any historical precedent.
Only time will elucidate our fates.
- Tloewald 13y agoOptimistic? If ever there were an example of "appeal to an irrelevant authority" as a mode of argument, this overlong and histrionic essay would be it. Does it really matter what Moby Dick is about? Arguments should stand on reasoning and evidence, not pretentious allusions. And then, of course, we get to fascism. The sad thing is, I pretty much agree with the writer's sentiments, but this essay isn't going to convince anyone of anything.