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In the event of solar flares knocking out telecommunications and combustible engines or a nuclear conflict doing that would derail the dystopia associated with a society that doesn't have to think anymore (because it's obsolete). Instead, we'd have another kind of dystopia altogether. What I'm...

That's okay. They could do that. Collusion is not illegal--acc. to Deputy Press Secretary for King Donald I.

But to get real food, one will have to grow it themselves. Also, you're assuming that there'll be currency through which to pay for these deliverables. In the dystopic society that's post-cognition, people will have to grow their own food because there'll be no jobs, no currency. Yes, dystopia...

That's assuming that there'll be distribution networks in the post-cognitive society. Logistics requires thought. So in the absence of these items at stores, humans will have to grow/raise them on their own. It's called survival.

Because people have to feed themselves. Farmed foods include crops and livestock. This is what people will be concerned with mostly in the post-cognitive age. Well that and their online "identities," which are quickly replacing real time identity. Think of the teenager or 21 or 22 year old that...

I haven't yet figured out how a post-cognitive society will grow food given that machines can't quite do that and probably won't be able to in the foreseeable future. My guess is that most people will be farmers in the post-cognitive age. And to learn to do it, they'll consult a Wiki on "growing...

I like to think as well and I think on everything. The reason why I'm displeased in my society is because too few other people like to think or want to have to think. I don't get along well with those folks. This is why I like working with prisoners. All they do is think. It's a cockeyed world...

I'm just saying that post-cognition is where we're headed. People don't want to think. It's human nature to not want to have to think. Go teach college classes and you'll hear from all these 18-24 year olds that "I don't want to have to think..." And many of them accused me of making them "think...

Agreed on edu reform. Let me make one thing clear--given that I know so many people in higher ed and am a higher ed refugee. Higher education will not reform itself. In fact, higher ed is willfully becoming worse and worse through administrations controlling the system as a for-profit...

My post is not about whether people want to think or desire thinking and there'll be fewer of those in the future. Rather, my post is that technologically speaking, thinking is about to become obsolete just like learning to bridle a horse has become obsolete, just like beating clothes against a...

But that's the world we're headed toward, like it or not.

Historians divide historical time period into ages. Perhaps you've heard of the "stone age" or "iron age." The "Dark Ages" refer to European backwardness after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. More recently, in America, there was the Gilded Age when capitalism seemed to run amok and a...

Tampon just dreams shit up. The other day, he was saying George Washington was a libertarian.

Cultist.

Cop to bank robber: I'm arresting you for bank robbery. Robber to cop: I didn't do it. Cop to bank robber: Okay, that settles it. Sorry. Have a nice day.

Yes, there is this reality among Trumpers that their orange god/King can do no wrong, even when shown demonstrable evidence that he's in this for himself (taxpayer funded trips to play golf, for example, or looking lost right after he gets off his plane). That's why I call them cultists. During...

The more King Donald has to pow wow with other world leaders, the more he'll appear as the inept buffoon that he is. Trump won--won the electoral college--and did so narrowly with the votes of a handful of states pushing him over the edge. But Trump will lose as the el presidente. Even el...

or a market...

The Framers of the Constitution routinely hyped an us vs. them as it pertained to Indian insurgencies and slave rebellions. The very document itself is imbued with this antipathy toward non-white inhabitants of the Republic they were creating. At that time as well, Florida and Texas (much of...

Trump is Putin's vassal. Yeah, the middle ages never really went anywhere. We just changed up the terminology.