Wednesday, July 31, 2024

The CNN debate between Vance and Walz

Much fanfare about its informational potential accompanied last week's first televised interview with the Democratic contenders for U. S. Vice President. It did not deserve any of this fanfare, however, because the following two questions were not asked, nor were the subjects brought up by the candidates:

1. What will your polices be regarding the coming end of the human species in the form we've been familiar with for the last 300,000 years? The speed of this human-induced evolution will be many times faster than non human-induced evolution, so fast in fact that much of its foundation will take shape during your first 4 year term. Are you even thinking about it?

2. Is there anything you can say to dispel the impression that a world war is approaching that will use both nuclear and biological weapons, that unlike World Wars I and II every person on earth will be on the front line, and that this war will happen whether you or your opponents win in November?

Such questions are never asked of any politician, so their absence last night was no surprise. We need a new political force, possibly international, with the credibility and motivation to speak on behalf of the many humans who will not passively watch their own replacement as if they were watching a TV show.

[Update, 9/9/24: I was thinking about the upcoming debate between the presidential contenders and how when it's over I'll be writing that neither candidate said anything or was asked anything about the imminent end of "the human race" and "civilization" as currently defined, and then I realized that there will be no point to that essay because although many people will agree, they won't see what they're supposed to do about it, since no one can do anything about it. And then I thought, I'd better not be defeatist myself because that would spell- you guessed it- defeat.]

[Update, 9/11/24: As anticipated, I watched the Harris/Trump debate, noted that there was no mention that the human race is likely breathing its last frenetic breath, and decided to avoid risking Broken Record Syndrome by not writing on the subject- outside this quick update, which I hope the reader will forgive! ]
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Sunday, July 07, 2024

The (first) presidential debate

On June 27, in the first candidate's debate of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we watched President Joe Biden [at that time the Democratic candidate] and former President Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, debate immigration, health care, crime, the economy and international relations, while the country debated the pros and cons of gerontocracy. These are real issues, but the candidates and the country skipped the most important issues as if they did not exist. These issues include:

1. The coming replacement of the current human being with a new human being created by biological engineering and AI.

2. An imminent world war sparked not only, or even primarily by tensions in the Middle East, or between Ukraine and Russia, or China and Taiwan, or any of the many other "hot spots" around the world, but by a manipulated effort to use war as a cover for the elimination of obsolete human civilization, replacing it with a genetically engineered, AI mediated new civilization.

There is much criticism of the two candidates' performances in the debate, but in the big picture it doesn't matter what they said or who won [Update, 7/21/24: ...or whether one is shot at or one replaced], we are headed in the same direction. Our two-party system with its definitions of key issues is a relic, reflective of a world about to vanish. We need something updated and more forceful, whether a new party or, as this blog suggests (see Party or Foundation below) another sort of influential group that can gain the trust of our threatened species and mediate the changes coming. Read this blog for ideas about our future!
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