Spengler, in "the decadence of the West" says that societies are more like plants.
2015-01-29 22:05 GMT+01:00 Jason Resch <[email protected]>: > People worry that one day machines will take over, and we will > become subservient slaves to their ends, that they will set the rules, > control the government, and be above the law. > > We no longer need to fear that day because it already happened, quite some > time ago. These machines are corporations: self-sustaining, evolving (in > a Darwinian sense), hyper-intelligent, extremely-knowledgeable, immortal, > transnational, entities which see and utilize humans as mere cogs in their > own machinery. They are independently intelligent entities which we humans > think we control, but we no more control them than any cell in our body > controls our own personal actions. > > Jason > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:44 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Transnational corporate globalism, has not turned out to be all that good >> for freedom, quality of human life or the environment; it has however been >> great for the quarterly bottom line… and profit is the only value that >> seems valued these days. >> >> -Chris >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *LizR >> >> >> >> >> https://action.sumofus.org/a/tpp-final-talks/?akid=9154.7664677.NhaQ0s&ask=1&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=2 >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
