I'd rather look to egalitarian emancipatory remedies, than dwell on defeatism and succumbing to ploys of "pitchforks vs torches, or opposaming in service of the polluting oligarchs and kakistarchs.
Avail the suppressed clean emancipatory techologies, abundance is restored, people no longer feel the economic duress, "it's easy to be an angel in heaven", and we'll see "it takes a village", and can all eagerly help care for the ever dwindling "unwanted kids".
We were foolish to peg our power to our labour/servitude/slavery. No path to emancipation like that. Pegs us to our abuser driving us all to doom.
We were foolish to accept being called "ordinary people". That basically means we're ordinance. Cannon fodder.
"Worthless eaters" some in the ruling class call us.
We can still mend this.
Even the richest can be better off (and not join the extinct) with the clean emancipatory technology being de-secreted and utilised. As it shall, either sooner, in wise foresight, or later, in desperation.
Sure... could take that impression. Or... consider:
Patent Office whistle blower Tom Valone revealed at energy conferences in the early 00's that by the year 2000 there had already been over 3000 free energy device patents secreted. (... That's abundant energy without pollution.)
âWe should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.â
â Buckminster Fuller
Follow the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla (passing by the Sonora Aero Club and Charles Dellschau's drawings of what they had in 1850 (the early state of the art of what would become zero-inertia propulsion (like the foo-fighters and "the bell" ("die glocke") in (and before) WW2))), you may find many more examples of technologies we've been denied.
Consider even the lies they {Ed Bernays (who inspired Hitler), Harry J Anslinger and Randolf William Hearst} spread to convince us our most useful resource, Cannabis, was instead a demon called "Marijuana", depriving us of the most nutritionally complete and balanced food source for humans and livestock, that can be even eaten without processing and cooking, can last for many years, can be grown in the same soil for 20 years without rotation before depleting nutrients, cleans the air over 7 times more than a pine forest, makes 7 times as much paper as trees and the paper is stronger and lasts for hundreds and even thousands of years, makes fabrics more versatile than cotton with none of the pollution and easier and without slaves, and it even can produce oil fuels like diesel, alcohol fuels like petrol, and even cheap abundant easy graphene to help make solid state capacitors and photovoltaics etc, as well as making super strong limecrete and bioplastics and on and on it goes. And I haven't even mentioned medicine and spirituality and fun yet, which it's the best at and non-lethal. All unsurprising since humanity have been in co-evolution with it, cultivating it the longest. The first writing we still have on paper, was on hemp paper, about cannabis, as a medicine. It's the main ingredient in the holy anointing oil. Salvation's return is the restoration of cannabis/hemp. No wonder competing industries sought to eliminate the competition, keeping us dependent on their inferior products, and wage slavery.
Consider these two quotes together, and who said them:
âWe already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity⊠anything you can imagine we already know how to do.â â Ben Rich, former Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works
âIt is easier for us to pay a private contractor to re-invent something so it will come out at a lower classification level, than to try to declassify it.â â Bennett Hart, then Deputy Director of the National Reconnaissance Organization
If we release all the emancipatory technologies the corporations have been sitting on to keep us hog-tied to their polluting and inferior technology for impoverishing rents, we'll have dispelled the circular argument that we need a cull of the human population (like the top line of the Georgia Guidestones or some interpretations of Bill Gates' reductive equation suggests).
It'd even avail all space to us (space, that's expanding, faster than we could fill it). And to populate Mars, Callisto, Ceres, etc. And to create vast spinning tube orbitals for 1G almost wherever we want. And it would let us build interconnected forest-arcologies, creating a vast forest arcology-scapes, allowing over 300 trillion humans to live here on earth, in abundant nature.
Not saying we should.
Just saying we have so much more headroom with proper resource management, without the crooks holding us down just so they have more than us. Egalitarian proliferation of the (currently suppressed) emancipatory technologies would have even the richest be better off.
Or we could just keep sabotaging ourselves, sabotaging the survival of the species, held under duress to be complicitly committing ecocide, pretending things are harder than they are, just to help maintain the billionaires' rigged game. :/
It's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want:
I still feel the pain of the time I spent over an hour back and forth websearching, consulting with an LLM, doing calculations in ghci, for a reply to a 3-4 hour old post on intelligence, and by the time I was ready to send my reply...
It was gone.
It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?
Heh. I started using emacs in 2014, when an irc friend who had been using it for a decade were moving parts of their 10 year old config to a new one (iirc, they were moving to org-mode config), and then in 2024, I did the same, moved my 10 year old config over to an org-mode config.
Anyhoo,
but I remember playing the Emacs Adventure around 2006 when I was 11.
My British autism and too long time spent online among non-Brits causing me to consider it could have been meant non-sarcastically. Those people are out there.
Already a fan of IceWM, often recommending it. It's super light and super simple and familiar to windows users since the 90s (meaning it has a panel and "start menu").
XLibre, a fan, though only from afar so far, yet to try. Glorious to see X11 & Xorg(fork) getting life extension, rather than euthanized by the corporation.
OpenRC is thorough. :) Solid choice.
All this saves [computer and headspace] resources for what you really want to do. :)
(Just saying that so you pop by, and we can listen to some Rush together, maybe also some Yes, Hawkwind, Floyd, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, early Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Dream Theater, Fleetwood Mac, and Golden Earing's Radar Love.)
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I want their trials to be seen by her.