Friday, June 20, 2025

We need a new force with a shared vision

Because I felt the urgency of the situation, this essay is also posted on my other blog, Lasken's Log @ https://laskenlog.blogspot.com/). D.L.

Don't be afraid to sound like someone out of a science fiction novel - that's what you are. Yes, a New York shyster has taken over the presidency and is ruining your city (in my case Los Angeles), destroying its schools, social structure, economy, infrastructure and self-esteem, and he is doing the same to the rest of the country and the world. If you're a science fiction fan, you know what's coming next - that's right, destruction of the cities and wars of the world, designed to cover the transition of the biological human to an AI powered genetically engineered semi-human.

You can be proud of your conspiracy theory, because it's right, as I've been arguing in these pages. And it has heated up suddenly. Trump, at the moment, is the outward force of it, paving the way for acolytes to make fortunes beyond Midas' dreams, and dust for the rest. We need a political force to combat this, but it doesn't seem forthcoming from conventional sources. Governor Newson, for instance, though a decent person, does not know what he's up against, and four years is all it will take to wreck the place.

I have a vision I would like to make real through this hypothetical force (and I'm open to suggestions): Let's make sure that we're not just replacing our species with another species, that we might also be forming cultures in which the previous human model, i.e. us, or forms as close to us as possible - or at least forms that are recognizably human - will live in harmony and cooperation with the new synthetic, corporately controlled humanoids, while we retain our human memories and identities. And that we do this, as much as possible, without blowing ourselves up. This isn't in the cards now because that's not where the money is. The money is in sucking out every bit of sustenance left in the earth and blowing us up in the process. If we don't have a vision and a force with alternatives to this, we face multiple levels of extinction.

On the question of how to conduct this force, I don't think screaming in the streets will do much good (it sure didn't against the Vietnam War, which went on for five years after the biggest demonstrations). A real force will need money, of course, from donors and investors who are ready to create something. But most of all it will need a shared vision.
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We need a new force with a shared vision

Because I felt the urgency of the situation, this essay is also posted on my other blog, Lasken's Log @ https://laskenlog.blogspot.com...