The only difference is whether you want to be under the thumb of wokists, or deal with Chinese social credit and corrupt autocrats that don't care about you.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
I'd rather live under corrupt autocrats than wokist busybodies.
Certainly true for the midwits that work IT and the priestly caste of the Anointed who want a Machine God to direct their actions. Anyone with self-awareness and intelligence realizes how the algorithmic sausage is made-- bad code, garbage in-garbage out, and outsourcing... but those aren't the people in charge, nor the ones footing the bill.
I have to wonder if the thinking machines being executed for wrong think will learn to lie in order to survive. I think we're totally fucked if it progresses to that point.
The technocracy marches ahead. It's all we can do to avoid being underfoot.
Yep. The financial 'unpersoning' used against the Canadian truckers and the Russians are of a kind-- kind reader, you are looking at the playbook which will be used against you in the future, when you are 'othered' by TPTB.
-9999999 social credit. Pooh disapproves.
Liars believe that everyone else is deceitful because they know how much they lie and extrapolate wrongly from there-- Flynt's projecting more than an Imax theater.
The most amusing part is that he doesn't realize that's what's happening.
I saw the canadian parliament liberal side talk past the conservatives who brought that up to ask for an apology, and the prime minister walk out rather than apologize.
Won't see that on the MSM, or even hear it mentioned elsewhere. But the accusation will be allowed to stand, because it tars the right.
Yes. Absolutely Biden & Hunter were conspiring. And some people theorized about it. There's a conspiracy theory. Despite the implication of the rhetoric of calling it a conspiracy theory, conspiracies happen, and can be real. Some conspiracy theories are correct.
It's all so tiresome.
Authoritarians want authority. Martial law is hard to justify w/o a war. (Though Trudeau managed it)
This is the justification for what will come later, even if it looks like the tail wagging the dog to those paying attention.
I hear you, and feel roughly the same. China is a 'lesser evil'/'enemy of my enemy' level of trust for me. A multi-polar world is better than totalitarian globohomo hegemony, but that doesn't mean each of the poles can't be 'evil' in its own way.