What is "Technology" Driving??
We all see it among our children around our dinner tables, in our schools, our churches, and within the halls of Governments: that sense of "exclusion", or being "left out" is primal, and evokes a "gut" response. We all instinctively resist it; many are prepared to do anything to achieve "acceptance".
Hollywood's fictionalized version of what this leads to in the near future (mid 21st century) is depicted in "Elysium"; starring Matt Damon. The film provides much to think about. In the film,"Race" has become irrelevant; replaced by an ability of the wealthy and connected to separate, impoverish, and enslave people. They do this by utilizing advances in current technology, coupled with a policy that denies health care. They create industries that use those who are enslaved to build their robot oppressors.
From the bowels of the Expansions in Technology that began under Hitler, and continued during the Cold War, has sprung our Internet, Cell Phones, and many newer technologies. Perhaps the most ubiquitous and powerful technology is what we used to call artificial intelligence, but now is recognized as "robotics". The perfection of robots and their use in ultimate repressions necessary to sustain the ultimate exclusion of mankind, is the subject of the film. We are now, more than 40 years "into" this technology. Separation from those whom they have "excluded", takes place within a satellite-based "civilization"; based on current Space Station technology. As I remember, C.P. Snow foresaw something like this in his book, The Physicists.
Religions, governments, and organizations of varied sorts rely heavilyon their ability to "exclude". Their growth and survival depend on it. From the "Royal" baby, to "Oprah's Purse", the "tools" for exclusion abound. The Republicans have seized this strategy; in what may be either a "death grip" or, a "death spiral" as a political party. Their use of "Race" as their principal tool for exclusion, is proving more and more inadequate. It is serving to make a shrinking white populace more afraid, and more determined to arm themselves. Trying a little "inclusion" could do a lot to ease the fears of whites.
As we look abroad, we see the results of a century or more of our "American version of Exclusionary Foreign Policy" that has been exported by our State Department. From Saddam, to Gadhafi, to Arafat, Mubarak, Assad, Sharon, and now, Netanyahu; (the list is longer), the "fingers" of U.S. "policies for "exclusion" of one group or another abound. The news today from Egypt may indicate that all of this has "hit the fan".
Stay Vigilant! "Inclusion" should not be that hard! Technology "augurs" no good!
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