Brains, not brawn, are what powers the world. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
Since the Bronze Age, human societies have been arranged around brute force. Even now, governments are monopolies of violence. The very structure of government serves one primary end: to deliver violence. All else is secondary.
This model has survived mostly on the fear of the ruled. And fundamentally, that boiled down to a fear of insufficiency. Acute fears – monstrous foreign invaders and so on – have always played a role, to be sure, but the bedrock day-to-day fear was a sense among the populace of being insufficient to deal with the world, even with the help of one’s family.
Humanity, from the Bronze Age onward, has believed itself insufficient and felt a need to join with a large, powerful entity. That need, however, is so far past its expiration date that its mold and rot are starting to show.
Buckminster Fuller, who saw this coming, explained it this way in 1981:
We can now take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than anybody has ever known. It does not have to be “you or me,” so selfishness is unnecessary and war is obsolete.
The scientific revolution has had its effects, and a sufficient number of us have risen to the occasion. We’ve transcended scarcity. We grow more food than we can eat, we know quite well how to build enough structures, medical care isn’t really a problem, and we have tremendous distribution abilities.
What we lack are structures of cooperation that are up to the task.
Confucius says: After the engineered collapse share foxhole with soldier not scientist.
Figure One: Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers…throw them into darkness for a few hours and then you just sit back and watch the pattern.
Figure Two: And this pattern is always the same?
Figure One: With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find…and it’s themselves. And all we need do is sit back…and watch…and let them destroy themselves. — “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” Twilight Zone
Fuller was a genius. Had no use for black people though.
As for the rest, and considering the one world slave
government types who will control it, I’d say you are
full of beans sir.
Rosenberg is always an interesting read. I suspect, however, he may suffer, however, a conflicted morality.
Science is a result – as is what science has enabled.
The “cause” of science is freedom – i.e., free inquiry. The cause of Rosenberg’s, “enough food to feed the entire world,” is the morality of freedom -collectively embraced.
When the morality of freedom is understood to be the right of each of us to live our lives as we choose, unencumbered by anyone, provided we harm no others, it is only then that all will be fed, housed, clothed, and cared for!
Alas, such a cornucopia will too have become a consequence, NEVER the purpose, goal, or objective of the morality of an individual’s freedom to live their life as they choose!
My great biology teacher (h/t-Mr J) who showed us the CPUSA (D) video about race in America said to always question everything and to not be afraid to use the FAFO method.
The PHD chemistry teacher (h/t-Mr C) with disfigured face from experiments gone wrong said the same.
Be thankful you got to see vintage Legacy America and these youngsters have no clue of what they will never see.
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