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Militarized robots are the anti-guillotine. They’re the final solution to the ancient “there are a lot more of us than there are of our rulers” problem.
This is a nightmarish recipe for growing homelessness, widespread housing hardship, the total destruction of the rest of the economy, and unfathomable human desire.
Even Adam Smith, author of that early free enterprise bible, The Wealth of Nations, observed that pursuing self-interest in the marketplace can’t replace the necessary moral sentiments of sympathy and understanding for others.
How heavy and oppressive do their metallic exoskeletons feel as they cast their long shadows over our lives. How well do their reflective glass shells deflect our attempts to hold to account those perpetrating the crimes committed inside.
“We Have Never Been Woke” by Musa al-Gharbi may be academia’s first serious effort at self-analysis, and its surprising, enraging diagnosis rings all too true.
Joe Biden or whoever is running the White House can absolve anyone they please, but Anthony Fauci needs to stand tall before the man. The world is owed answers.
There is no consideration for what country the Empire destroyed to fuel our cars, which people are earning pennies inside sweatshops for our clothes or how many children’s hands touched the lithium in our phone batteries fresh out of the mine.
Today is the gravest danger of nuclear war than at any time in the nuclear era. This is a reality so stark and intimidating that many people feel powerless to do anything about it. But something can be done.