Friday, November 15, 2024

Does Trump have a long view?

In spite of his increasingly disruptive impact upon most social and economic levels, President Trump is an unknown regarding his views on the current radical acceleration of human physical and mental evolution, in which after a period of 300,000 years where we did not change much, we are undergoing unbelievably rapid change right now, stimulated by revolutions in AI and biology. In a few decades, the post-World War II generations alive today will register as primitive humanity, yet Trump, along with former presidents Biden, Obama and all other current and former leaders of the world, says not a word about the imminent shift.

At the current overwhelming pace of societal change, 4 years is a long time, so Trump is positioned to be an important influence on upcoming human evolution. Many people wonder how such a man attained this position. The answer is that Trump is a strategic thinker. The buffoon portrayed on Saturday Night Live is based on a persona that Trump uses strategically, to lull us into thinking that making fun of him will protect us from what he is doing. You'll get a better idea of Trump by watching his interview with Joe Rogan, where we see a street fighter with fearsome talents. We can debate Trump's morality, but let's drop the idea that he doesn't know how to get what he wants.

You might argue that though Trump is politically shrewd, he does not care about future Earth and humanity; he does not have a long view.

We can only guess, but however Trump does or doesn’t evolve in his second term, our proclaimed democracy needs an update, a new representative force in addition to political parties and candidates who are fixated only on the next election. Perhaps we could take an idea from Isaac Asimov and create a foundation (from the novel of the same name) or a trust, made up of scholars, experts, and, crucially, retired English teachers, whose mission would be to consider future decades, centuries, perhaps millennia. That could be a welcome alternative to the exhausting, silly and wasteful national election campaign we just endured, and the sinister age it ushered in.

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