Is Great Reset Villain, Yuval Noah Harari, not entirely wrong?
Are most people natural born slaves?
Is Harari not entirely wrong? What percent of people would willingly embrace the Great Reset dystopia? Not necessarily out of force or coercion, but out of conformity as well as convenience. Martin Goldberg has an excellent video on the pros and cons of a Great Reset. While I personally oppose it, most people don’t want to have to make big societal and political decisions, nor have the responsibilities of an ownership society.
The rentier and subscription based model, and having food and goods delivered cheaply by drones is appealing to many, even as prosperity and freedom are eroded. A Great Reset technocracy can only be challenged by a committed counter-elite, with a will to power and grand aristocratic visions, not the conformist masses. This is where populism falls short.
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Some people say I look like Harari.
Intelligence is used to control nature. Sooner or later someone is going to rewrite human species. Nothing you can do about self organizing processes. It’s true. Normies die out in history as dirt, not even a footnote. Slaves exist because no one challenges the rulers and if everyone was a ruler then evolutionarily speaking we would kill each other until some group comes up on top. Humans are a hierarchical species. Families who plan decades ahead have a greater responsibility to rule than people who fuck randomly squirt out a kid or two then kick them to the curb at 18 while being at the whims of others.
The Left has been talking about the problem of 'automation' and it's effects on 'utility' of humanity. Andre Gorz was looking at this problem over 40 years ago. The capitalist system is a system for morons who want to believe that navigating the moronic maze created by other capitalists makes them 'smart'. It doesn't but a selection system always ends up selecting what it selected for. Now you have people who think they can socialize capitalism and still make 'capitalism' make sense. But it won't. One AI send memos to another AI about failure to comply with existing regulations created by a third AI isn't an economy. But, human beings performing the same actions aren't either. And this is the point: Human beings have become so debased and their life-ways so distorted that large-language model computing can do 75% of the existing 'busy work' that most of us do.
There have been 'too many' people since the dawn of the industrial age. Each successive iteration of industrial development -scientific application of engineering principles to production - has displaced human labor. This is what the Luddites were all about in the first place. And every time a form of effective, unalienated labor is displace, whole sub-cultures die. Do you know how to churn butter? How about turn wool into yarn? Or tend to sheep or cattle? See what I mean?
The advancement of technology is the degeneration of culture and the redundancy of humanity.