RE: The Post-Technological World.
March 15, 2019 at 2:27 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2019 at 2:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There are selfish and greedy reasons to do just about any good thing. I sometimes amuse myself with the realization that some of histories most terrible motherfuckers accidentally did the rest of us a solid and got shit on for their trouble.
That was the undercurrent to my previous remarks about how, even in the event of villainous technocratic dystopia, the baddies would have a very strong incentive to adopt appropriate technologies...you know, to better fuck with other people. The end result of that is a net good in spite of the motivations of the actors who enforce it. The reason that bad things™ ultimately fail is the fundamental incompetence of the actors more than anything else. Their inability to see how their actions result in their end and through that (and their end) our betterment.
So, a fun example. Elon Musk might actually be a mustache twirling villain...Lex fuckin Luther, but if so, we got a crew capsule out of him all the same. He could be defrauding his investors (and we the people through contracts), but if so..we still got EVs and panels and batteries out of him.
That was the undercurrent to my previous remarks about how, even in the event of villainous technocratic dystopia, the baddies would have a very strong incentive to adopt appropriate technologies...you know, to better fuck with other people. The end result of that is a net good in spite of the motivations of the actors who enforce it. The reason that bad things™ ultimately fail is the fundamental incompetence of the actors more than anything else. Their inability to see how their actions result in their end and through that (and their end) our betterment.
So, a fun example. Elon Musk might actually be a mustache twirling villain...Lex fuckin Luther, but if so, we got a crew capsule out of him all the same. He could be defrauding his investors (and we the people through contracts), but if so..we still got EVs and panels and batteries out of him.
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