Friday, June 20, 2025

We need a new force with a shared vision

Because I felt the urgency of the situation, this essay is also posted on my other blog, Lasken's Log @ https://laskenlog.blogspot.com/). D.L.

Don't be afraid to sound like someone out of a science fiction novel - that's what you are. Yes, a New York shyster has taken over the presidency and is ruining your city (in my case Los Angeles), destroying its schools, social structure, economy, infrastructure and self-esteem, and he is doing the same to the rest of the country and world. If you're a science fiction fan, you know what's coming next - that's right, destruction of the cities and wars of the world, designed to cover the transition of the biological human to an AI powered genetically engineered semi-human.

You can be proud of your conspiracy theory, because it's right, as I've been arguing in these pages. And it has heated up suddenly. Trump, at the moment, is the outward force of it, paving the way for acolytes to make fortunes beyond Midas' dreams, and dust for the rest. We need a political force to combat this. Governor Newson is a nice person, but he doesn't know what he's up against and four years is all it will take to wreck the place.

I have a vision I would like to make real through this hypothetical force (and I'm open to suggestions): Let's make sure that we're not just replacing our species with another species, that we might also form cultures in which former-form humans, like us, or forms as close to us as possible - or at least forms that are recognizable as human - will live in harmony and cooperation with the new synthetic forms, while retaining their human memories and identities. And that we do this, as much as possible, without blowing ourselves up. This isn't in the cards now because that's not where the money is. The money is in sucking out every bit of sustenance from the earth, the better to blow us up. If we don't have a vision and force that resists this, we will be blown up.

On the question of how to conduct this force, I don't think screaming in the streets will do much good (it sure didn't against the Vietnam War, which went on for five years after the biggest demonstrations). A force will need money, of course, from people who are done sucking out the earth's sustenance and want to create something. And most of all it will need a shared vision.
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