Which is likely to appeal more? Trump’s ‘Utopia for people as they are’ or the Left’s ‘Utopia for people as I decide they should be’. Whatever the truth of the matter Trump comes across as supporting ordinary people, not endlessly scolding them.
He may come across that way but it’s not true. His zealous followers are being duped by a cult leader who tells them what they want to hear, and makes them feel like he cares. Sadly he doesn’t. And since when did telling women that having an abortion is murdering a baby, not scolding them.
Who is being duped by a doomsday cult? The leftists that want a return to neofeudalism to “save the planet” from carbon emissions, that’s who! Modern life is made possible by cheap abundant energy, harnessed by relatively free markets. Our “experts” on the left assure us that our only salvation is to replace free markets with government controls, and specifically to ban all sources of abundant cheap energy.
Anyone who believes that CO2 is a hazard to the planet should stop breathing. Every time you exhale, you’re emitting CO2.
Using a temperature record of 100-120 years of statistical noise to predict climate cycles lasting 100’s or 1,000’s of years is statistical folly. Both the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods were warmer than it is now. The Paleoclimatology record of Planet Earth contains periods of both snow ball earth, covered completely in ice, and an earth with no ice at all. Scientific explanations for all this variability do not include man made CO2.
No models of climate change based strictly on CO2 concentrations have any statistical significance. If they don’t, they ain’t science. They’re vodoo superstition.
Wind and solar are both intermittent sources of power. On long cold winter nights without wind, where will the power come from? There’s no current storage technology that can store energy for months from summer to winter, and no plans to build any huge battery backup.
Where’s the Net Zero proof of concept pilot project? There ain’t none. Do you implement any software or hardware changes without any testing, and no back out plan?
Trump wants to set us free from regulatory “experts.” As a retired IT expert with 45 years experience and 2 Masters degrees, I think deregulation is much preferable to the alternative. I want government by the consent of the governed, not government by “experts” who don’t know what they’re doing.
Who is being duped by a doomsday cult? The leftists that want a return to neofeudalism to “save the planet” from carbon emissions, that’s who! Modern life is made possible by cheap abundant energy, harnessed by relatively free markets. Our “experts” on the left assure us that our only salvation is to replace free markets with government controls, and specifically to ban all sources of abundant cheap energy.
Anyone who believes that CO2 is a hazard to the planet should stop breathing. Every time you exhale, you’re emitting CO2.
Using a temperature record of 100-120 years of statistical noise to predict climate cycles lasting 100’s or 1,000’s of years is statistical folly. Both the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods were warmer than it is now. The Paleoclimatology record of Planet Earth contains periods of both snow ball earth, covered completely in ice, and an earth with no ice at all. Scientific explanations for all this variability do not include man made CO2.
No models of climate change based strictly on CO2 concentrations have any statistical significance. If they don’t, they ain’t science. They’re vodoo superstition.
Wind and solar are both intermittent sources of power. On long cold winter nights without wind, where will the power come from? There’s no current storage technology that can store energy for months from summer to winter, and no plans to build any huge battery backup.
Where’s the Net Zero proof of concept pilot project? There ain’t none. Do you implement any software or hardware changes without any testing, and no back out plan?
Trump wants to set us free from regulatory “experts.” As a retired IT expert with 45 years experience and 2 Masters degrees, I think deregulation is much preferable to the alternative. I want government by the consent of the governed, not government by “experts” who don’t know what they’re doing.
He may come across that way but it’s not true. His zealous followers are being duped by a cult leader who tells them what they want to hear, and makes them feel like he cares. Sadly he doesn’t. And since when did telling women that having an abortion is murdering a baby, not scolding them.
AC Harper
1 year ago
Which is likely to appeal more? Trump’s ‘Utopia for people as they are’ or the Left’s ‘Utopia for people as I decide they should be’. Whatever the truth of the matter Trump comes across as supporting ordinary people, not endlessly scolding them.
Last edited 1 year ago by AC Harper
Lesley van Reenen
1 year ago
I’ll take the Trump version for sure over the WEF version if that is all on offer.
Yep. It almost doesn’t matter what Trump says. He just makes all of the career politicians suddenly have to take a toilet break. That is enough. Get rid of the grey people controllers.
Still don’t believe in American manufacturing any more than I believed in the American wall.
Yep. It almost doesn’t matter what Trump says. He just makes all of the career politicians suddenly have to take a toilet break. That is enough. Get rid of the grey people controllers.
Still don’t believe in American manufacturing any more than I believed in the American wall.
Freedom from the lot of them interfering in our lives is the best option.
Lesley van Reenen
1 year ago
I’ll take the Trump version for sure over the WEF version if that is all on offer.
Hugh Bryant
1 year ago
“Love him or hate him, it’s hard to think of another politician who has contributed so bigly to internet memes — or, relatedly, shown such eerie ability to tap into undeclared layers of collective longing.”
Isn’t the point, actually, that Trump is not a politician? Why wouldn’t anyone choose the positive vision he offers over the dystopian future that the establishment politicians are proposing. I certainly would.
Because the other side can’t see the dystopian side of the vision, nor do they have the capability to see it whilst their head is firmly planted in front of the MSM.
Trump is a politician and his offer is always a con. His supporters like him because he makes them feel good about themselves; especially when there’s very little for them to feel good about.
Because the other side can’t see the dystopian side of the vision, nor do they have the capability to see it whilst their head is firmly planted in front of the MSM.
Trump is a politician and his offer is always a con. His supporters like him because he makes them feel good about themselves; especially when there’s very little for them to feel good about.
“Love him or hate him, it’s hard to think of another politician who has contributed so bigly to internet memes — or, relatedly, shown such eerie ability to tap into undeclared layers of collective longing.”
Isn’t the point, actually, that Trump is not a politician? Why wouldn’t anyone choose the positive vision he offers over the dystopian future that the establishment politicians are proposing. I certainly would.
Chris Wheatley
1 year ago
To repeat from an earlier post – the greatest enemy in our lives today is Algorithm Man. He carries a computer and makes predictions from data.
Out comes, ‘We are all going to die because of carbon.’ So our politicians panic and we all die from the reaction to the new policies to control carbon. Heroes come along, people who know nothing but can speak to the cameras and join in protests. The pseudo-sciences, like Economics and Social Studies have been doing this for years. And for some reason we believe them.
I once wrote an algorithm. I asked, ‘What can save us from disaster?’ I fed in the economic data and waited patiently. Then the answer came out. SOMETHING ORANGE.
I remember thinking, ‘How could a can of Tango save us?’
‘What can save us from disaster?’ I fed in the economic data and waited patiently. Then the answer came out. SOMETHING ORANGE.
Trump descends on the escalator…
‘What can save us from disaster?’ I fed in the economic data and waited patiently. Then the answer came out. SOMETHING ORANGE.
Trump descends on the escalator…
To repeat from an earlier post – the greatest enemy in our lives today is Algorithm Man. He carries a computer and makes predictions from data.
Out comes, ‘We are all going to die because of carbon.’ So our politicians panic and we all die from the reaction to the new policies to control carbon. Heroes come along, people who know nothing but can speak to the cameras and join in protests. The pseudo-sciences, like Economics and Social Studies have been doing this for years. And for some reason we believe them.
I once wrote an algorithm. I asked, ‘What can save us from disaster?’ I fed in the economic data and waited patiently. Then the answer came out. SOMETHING ORANGE.
I remember thinking, ‘How could a can of Tango save us?’
Elliott Bjorn
1 year ago
”this defensiveness may not be wholly unfounded when “technology” conjures up vaccine passports, social credit systems, lab-grown Frankenfoods, and the WEF trying to persuade us to own nothing and eat insects even as Bill Gates hoovers up farmland, and Guardian leftists champion “rewilding”.’‘
Drop in the bucket! You neglected the tool of your bondage, CBDC and AI.
ChatGPT can, right now, do 20% of the jobs people are doing – it just has to shove the person aside and be the interface between the employer and the work. The displaced Person is of no use to anyone at all.. This is not good – and this is NOW.
Yuval Harari – and his power is Immense, says the huge problem looming, coming at us at the speed of a speeding truck – it almost all people, very soon, will be economically, and societally useless. His answer what to do with them – and you can look it up – is ‘Drugs and Computer Games and VR.’ as in living stoned in pods and eating the bugs till they all finally pass away…….
The Right Wing are Terrified of the coming Tech. And this is 100% as reasonable as the toad being in terror of the harrow which is bumping its way down the field towards it.
Left wing are told the coming tractor is bringing then a nice surprise and they are happy it is coming. (Being completely owned by the Social Media, entertainment and education Industries, and the MSM, who are owned in turn by our psychopathic Overlords)
Ultra MAGA can turn the Tractor, possibly – but it is the very last chance…….Trump is the world’s last hope.
What’s the toad doing in the field in the first place? Shouldn’t it be hanging out with other pondlife, rather than seeking out a harrowing experience?
I’ve just asked Chatgtp why my Grant oil fired boiler is not firing up. It gave a very clear and systematic suggestions as to the possible cause. I doubt it could be bettered by a local plumber.
I’ve just asked Chatgtp why my Grant oil fired boiler is not firing up. It gave a very clear and systematic suggestions as to the possible cause. I doubt it could be bettered by a local plumber.
AI rendering everyone redundant is Luddite nonsense. Labor saving devices have always led to the redeployment of labor to other tasks, as long as the market was left unregulated enough to do its job. Only central planners are worried about what to do with all these people.
I am considered Right Wing in the US, at least that’s what my family and friends tell me. I voted for Reagan twice and Trump twice. I also had a 45 plus year career in IT, including cyber security. The Right Wing ain’t scared of tech. It’s scared of federal -private partnerships with Big Tech that censor news and social media in violation of the 1st Amendment. You lot don’t have a written Constitution. We do, and it’s quite clear.
Just to remove any doubt, US courts have already ruled that it’s Unconstitutional for government to even suggest that private companies censor something, even if the company refuses to do it. The paragraphs below come from the Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2023, article, “How to Take the Twitter Files to Court,” By Jed Rubenfeld.
Norwood v. Harrison (1973), it is an “axiomatic” principle of constitutional law that the government “may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.” That’s exactly what the Twitter Files show officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies doing—inducing and encouraging Twitter to censor constitutionally protected speech.
Backpage. com v. Dart (2015): When a government official unconstitutionally attempts to induce a private company not to carry someone else’s speech, the official’s conduct “is actionable and can be enjoined” even if the company “ignores it.”
What’s the toad doing in the field in the first place? Shouldn’t it be hanging out with other pondlife, rather than seeking out a harrowing experience?
AI rendering everyone redundant is Luddite nonsense. Labor saving devices have always led to the redeployment of labor to other tasks, as long as the market was left unregulated enough to do its job. Only central planners are worried about what to do with all these people.
I am considered Right Wing in the US, at least that’s what my family and friends tell me. I voted for Reagan twice and Trump twice. I also had a 45 plus year career in IT, including cyber security. The Right Wing ain’t scared of tech. It’s scared of federal -private partnerships with Big Tech that censor news and social media in violation of the 1st Amendment. You lot don’t have a written Constitution. We do, and it’s quite clear.
Just to remove any doubt, US courts have already ruled that it’s Unconstitutional for government to even suggest that private companies censor something, even if the company refuses to do it. The paragraphs below come from the Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2023, article, “How to Take the Twitter Files to Court,” By Jed Rubenfeld.
Norwood v. Harrison (1973), it is an “axiomatic” principle of constitutional law that the government “may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.” That’s exactly what the Twitter Files show officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies doing—inducing and encouraging Twitter to censor constitutionally protected speech.
Backpage. com v. Dart (2015): When a government official unconstitutionally attempts to induce a private company not to carry someone else’s speech, the official’s conduct “is actionable and can be enjoined” even if the company “ignores it.”
Elliott Bjorn
1 year ago
”this defensiveness may not be wholly unfounded when “technology” conjures up vaccine passports, social credit systems, lab-grown Frankenfoods, and the WEF trying to persuade us to own nothing and eat insects even as Bill Gates hoovers up farmland, and Guardian leftists champion “rewilding”.’‘
Drop in the bucket! You neglected the tool of your bondage, CBDC and AI.
ChatGPT can, right now, do 20% of the jobs people are doing – it just has to shove the person aside and be the interface between the employer and the work. The displaced Person is of no use to anyone at all.. This is not good – and this is NOW.
Yuval Harari – and his power is Immense, says the huge problem looming, coming at us at the speed of a speeding truck – it almost all people, very soon, will be economically, and societally useless. His answer what to do with them – and you can look it up – is ‘Drugs and Computer Games and VR.’ as in living stoned in pods and eating the bugs till they all finally pass away…….
The Right Wing are Terrified of the coming Tech. And this is 100% as reasonable as the toad being in terror of the harrow which is bumping its way down the field towards it.
Left wing are told the coming tractor is bringing then a nice surprise and they are happy it is coming. (Being completely owned by the Social Media, entertainment and education Industries, and the MSM, who are owned in turn by our psychopathic Overlords)
Ultra MAGA can turn the Tractor, possibly – but it is the very last chance…….Trump is the world’s last hope.
Prashant Kotak
1 year ago
Not sure if it’s a matter of optimism vs pessimism. We typically cannot view ourselves from thirty thousand feet, because our individual perceptions are glacial and we are submerged in a pungent broth of emotions and biological drivers – you cannot typically see the true nature of yourself or others around you, for all the distractions. We swallow whole step-change within a few years, and then forget, both collectively and individually what life was like prior. Smartphones are an example. As a late boomer coming from a tecchie background, I always knew for example this particular change of personal mobile devices (or something like it), would eventually arrive. It arrived later than I expected, but transformed the way we exist much faster than I expected. For what it’s worth, I have the strongest feeling something “uuge” (as the protagonist of this piece might have put it) is coming. No idea if I’m right. No idea if I’ll live to see the heart of it. No idea if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Your inclination is well founded. For the last 200 years, at least, there have been several “huge” innovations that have changed us all very quickly. The issue is that they are coming at warp speed compared to the ancient innovations, which took hundreds of years to gain wide acceptance. The wheel and the printing press come to mind as examples.
The adoption of relatively free market capitalism in the mid to let 1600’s was the key change that started the increased speed of innovation. Intellectual property rights were also a key ingredient.
You should note that it’s the left that wants to regulate innovation to a standstill, at least in the US.
The adoption of relatively free market capitalism in the mid to let 1600’s was the key change that started the increased speed of innovation. Intellectual property rights were also a key ingredient.
You should note that it’s the left that wants to regulate innovation to a standstill, at least in the US.
Your inclination is well founded. For the last 200 years, at least, there have been several “huge” innovations that have changed us all very quickly. The issue is that they are coming at warp speed compared to the ancient innovations, which took hundreds of years to gain wide acceptance. The wheel and the printing press come to mind as examples.
Prashant Kotak
1 year ago
Not sure if it’s a matter of optimism vs pessimism. We typically cannot view ourselves from thirty thousand feet, because our individual perceptions are glacial and we are submerged in a pungent broth of emotions and biological drivers – you cannot typically see the true nature of yourself or others around you, for all the distractions. We swallow whole step-change within a few years, and then forget, both collectively and individually what life was like prior. Smartphones are an example. As a late boomer coming from a tecchie background, I always knew for example this particular change of personal mobile devices (or something like it), would eventually arrive. It arrived later than I expected, but transformed the way we exist much faster than I expected. For what it’s worth, I have the strongest feeling something “uuge” (as the protagonist of this piece might have put it) is coming. No idea if I’m right. No idea if I’ll live to see the heart of it. No idea if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Ben Jones
1 year ago
Great article and lots to think about.
Ben Jones
1 year ago
Great article and lots to think about.
Chip Prehn
1 year ago
Ms. Harrington is always compelling and customarily wise. As to the question of Technology, John Ehrett has a thoughtful response in The New Atlantis (Winter 2023): We must use it (for good). We can’t ignore or neglect it. We must master it — because others are evidently bent on using it to the destruction of the West.
I also recommend the excellent book ‘Who Owns the Future?’ by Jaron Lanier.
It’s nice to read about the vision for a tech-mediated future from people who truly are experts in the field, and who are trying to present pragmatic and positive ideas for how we can shape the future into something less dystopian than where we seem to be drifting now.
I also recommend the excellent book ‘Who Owns the Future?’ by Jaron Lanier.
It’s nice to read about the vision for a tech-mediated future from people who truly are experts in the field, and who are trying to present pragmatic and positive ideas for how we can shape the future into something less dystopian than where we seem to be drifting now.
Chip Prehn
1 year ago
Ms. Harrington is always compelling and customarily wise. As to the question of Technology, John Ehrett has a thoughtful response in The New Atlantis (Winter 2023): We must use it (for good). We can’t ignore or neglect it. We must master it — because others are evidently bent on using it to the destruction of the West.
Hardee Hodges
1 year ago
Inspiring dreams are lovely. The pending debt crisis may negate a lot of such inspiration for a time. Given that the debt issue affects nearly every nation, we will find some hard times may be coming.
True, but all things breaking can also offer us the chance to rethink how things are done and conceive of them in new and better ways, in light of why they broke. Thus even in a crisis, you can find new inspiration.
True, but all things breaking can also offer us the chance to rethink how things are done and conceive of them in new and better ways, in light of why they broke. Thus even in a crisis, you can find new inspiration.
Hardee Hodges
1 year ago
Inspiring dreams are lovely. The pending debt crisis may negate a lot of such inspiration for a time. Given that the debt issue affects nearly every nation, we will find some hard times may be coming.
Dermot O'Sullivan
1 year ago
One thing I think we can be fairly sure of: there is no going back.
Dermot O'Sullivan
1 year ago
One thing I think we can be fairly sure of: there is no going back.
John Riordan
1 year ago
“For the great many (including Askonas) to whom the answer to this question is “not a lot”, the creative destruction of tech innovation may genuinely seem like a more fruitful option than sitting about in the ruins muttering about Chesterton’s fence.”
Maybe it’s just because I’m middle-aged now, but this seems to me to be at least as funny, clever and perceptive as some of the best stand-up I saw at the Comedy Store in the 1990s before it became all boring, political and self-knowing.
As to the rest of this typically-good article from Mary Harrington, I’m no Trump-fan, but I do have to fall firmly on the side of techno-optimism instead of the dreich, boring and utterly contemptible pessimism of the opposite which only exists at all as a pretext for the extension of statism and all it represents.
John Riordan
1 year ago
“For the great many (including Askonas) to whom the answer to this question is “not a lot”, the creative destruction of tech innovation may genuinely seem like a more fruitful option than sitting about in the ruins muttering about Chesterton’s fence.”
Maybe it’s just because I’m middle-aged now, but this seems to me to be at least as funny, clever and perceptive as some of the best stand-up I saw at the Comedy Store in the 1990s before it became all boring, political and self-knowing.
As to the rest of this typically-good article from Mary Harrington, I’m no Trump-fan, but I do have to fall firmly on the side of techno-optimism instead of the dreich, boring and utterly contemptible pessimism of the opposite which only exists at all as a pretext for the extension of statism and all it represents.
Robert Hochbaum
1 year ago
Trump 2024…. Ugh.
Well, looking back to the original Robocop movie (a quote):
“I want a car that has reclining leather seats, goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage!”
The 6000 SUX. If he promises one of those to everyone, I’m in!
What the hell. Why not.
Last edited 1 year ago by Robert Hochbaum
Robert Hochbaum
1 year ago
Trump 2024…. Ugh.
Well, looking back to the original Robocop movie (a quote):
“I want a car that has reclining leather seats, goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage!”
The 6000 SUX. If he promises one of those to everyone, I’m in!
What the hell. Why not.
Last edited 1 year ago by Robert Hochbaum
Bryan Dale
1 year ago
If conservatives stand for anything, it’s economic growth. It’s the left that is determined to crush growth and spread poverty, leading to a world of cricket eating bicyclists.
Which is likely to appeal more? Trump’s ‘Utopia for people as they are’ or the Left’s ‘Utopia for people as I decide they should be’.
Whatever the truth of the matter Trump comes across as supporting ordinary people, not endlessly scolding them.
He may come across that way but it’s not true. His zealous followers are being duped by a cult leader who tells them what they want to hear, and makes them feel like he cares. Sadly he doesn’t. And since when did telling women that having an abortion is murdering a baby, not scolding them.
Who is being duped by a doomsday cult? The leftists that want a return to neofeudalism to “save the planet” from carbon emissions, that’s who! Modern life is made possible by cheap abundant energy, harnessed by relatively free markets. Our “experts” on the left assure us that our only salvation is to replace free markets with government controls, and specifically to ban all sources of abundant cheap energy.
Anyone who believes that CO2 is a hazard to the planet should stop breathing. Every time you exhale, you’re emitting CO2.
Using a temperature record of 100-120 years of statistical noise to predict climate cycles lasting 100’s or 1,000’s of years is statistical folly. Both the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods were warmer than it is now. The Paleoclimatology record of Planet Earth contains periods of both snow ball earth, covered completely in ice, and an earth with no ice at all. Scientific explanations for all this variability do not include man made CO2.
No models of climate change based strictly on CO2 concentrations have any statistical significance. If they don’t, they ain’t science. They’re vodoo superstition.
Wind and solar are both intermittent sources of power. On long cold winter nights without wind, where will the power come from? There’s no current storage technology that can store energy for months from summer to winter, and no plans to build any huge battery backup.
Where’s the Net Zero proof of concept pilot project? There ain’t none. Do you implement any software or hardware changes without any testing, and no back out plan?
Trump wants to set us free from regulatory “experts.” As a retired IT expert with 45 years experience and 2 Masters degrees, I think deregulation is much preferable to the alternative. I want government by the consent of the governed, not government by “experts” who don’t know what they’re doing.
Who is being duped by a doomsday cult? The leftists that want a return to neofeudalism to “save the planet” from carbon emissions, that’s who! Modern life is made possible by cheap abundant energy, harnessed by relatively free markets. Our “experts” on the left assure us that our only salvation is to replace free markets with government controls, and specifically to ban all sources of abundant cheap energy.
Anyone who believes that CO2 is a hazard to the planet should stop breathing. Every time you exhale, you’re emitting CO2.
Using a temperature record of 100-120 years of statistical noise to predict climate cycles lasting 100’s or 1,000’s of years is statistical folly. Both the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods were warmer than it is now. The Paleoclimatology record of Planet Earth contains periods of both snow ball earth, covered completely in ice, and an earth with no ice at all. Scientific explanations for all this variability do not include man made CO2.
No models of climate change based strictly on CO2 concentrations have any statistical significance. If they don’t, they ain’t science. They’re vodoo superstition.
Wind and solar are both intermittent sources of power. On long cold winter nights without wind, where will the power come from? There’s no current storage technology that can store energy for months from summer to winter, and no plans to build any huge battery backup.
Where’s the Net Zero proof of concept pilot project? There ain’t none. Do you implement any software or hardware changes without any testing, and no back out plan?
Trump wants to set us free from regulatory “experts.” As a retired IT expert with 45 years experience and 2 Masters degrees, I think deregulation is much preferable to the alternative. I want government by the consent of the governed, not government by “experts” who don’t know what they’re doing.
He may come across that way but it’s not true. His zealous followers are being duped by a cult leader who tells them what they want to hear, and makes them feel like he cares. Sadly he doesn’t. And since when did telling women that having an abortion is murdering a baby, not scolding them.
Which is likely to appeal more? Trump’s ‘Utopia for people as they are’ or the Left’s ‘Utopia for people as I decide they should be’.
Whatever the truth of the matter Trump comes across as supporting ordinary people, not endlessly scolding them.
I’ll take the Trump version for sure over the WEF version if that is all on offer.
Yep. It almost doesn’t matter what Trump says. He just makes all of the career politicians suddenly have to take a toilet break. That is enough. Get rid of the grey people controllers.
Still don’t believe in American manufacturing any more than I believed in the American wall.
Freedom from the lot of them interfering in our lives is the best option.
Yep. It almost doesn’t matter what Trump says. He just makes all of the career politicians suddenly have to take a toilet break. That is enough. Get rid of the grey people controllers.
Still don’t believe in American manufacturing any more than I believed in the American wall.
Freedom from the lot of them interfering in our lives is the best option.
I’ll take the Trump version for sure over the WEF version if that is all on offer.
“Love him or hate him, it’s hard to think of another politician who has contributed so bigly to internet memes — or, relatedly, shown such eerie ability to tap into undeclared layers of collective longing.”
Isn’t the point, actually, that Trump is not a politician? Why wouldn’t anyone choose the positive vision he offers over the dystopian future that the establishment politicians are proposing. I certainly would.
Because the other side can’t see the dystopian side of the vision, nor do they have the capability to see it whilst their head is firmly planted in front of the MSM.
Trump is a politician and his offer is always a con. His supporters like him because he makes them feel good about themselves; especially when there’s very little for them to feel good about.
bigly? …
Because the other side can’t see the dystopian side of the vision, nor do they have the capability to see it whilst their head is firmly planted in front of the MSM.
Trump is a politician and his offer is always a con. His supporters like him because he makes them feel good about themselves; especially when there’s very little for them to feel good about.
bigly? …
“Love him or hate him, it’s hard to think of another politician who has contributed so bigly to internet memes — or, relatedly, shown such eerie ability to tap into undeclared layers of collective longing.”
Isn’t the point, actually, that Trump is not a politician? Why wouldn’t anyone choose the positive vision he offers over the dystopian future that the establishment politicians are proposing. I certainly would.
To repeat from an earlier post – the greatest enemy in our lives today is Algorithm Man. He carries a computer and makes predictions from data.
Out comes, ‘We are all going to die because of carbon.’ So our politicians panic and we all die from the reaction to the new policies to control carbon. Heroes come along, people who know nothing but can speak to the cameras and join in protests. The pseudo-sciences, like Economics and Social Studies have been doing this for years. And for some reason we believe them.
I once wrote an algorithm. I asked, ‘What can save us from disaster?’ I fed in the economic data and waited patiently. Then the answer came out. SOMETHING ORANGE.
I remember thinking, ‘How could a can of Tango save us?’
Wasn’t it ORANGE ALERT in “The Prisoner”.
https://www.facebook.com/PurrrAvengers/videos/opening-and-closing-credits-the-prisoner/434522723806681/
More toxic than Agent Orange.
‘What can save us from disaster?’ I fed in the economic data and waited patiently. Then the answer came out. SOMETHING ORANGE.
Trump descends on the escalator…
That was a very vague question.
Wasn’t it ORANGE ALERT in “The Prisoner”.
https://www.facebook.com/PurrrAvengers/videos/opening-and-closing-credits-the-prisoner/434522723806681/
More toxic than Agent Orange.
‘What can save us from disaster?’ I fed in the economic data and waited patiently. Then the answer came out. SOMETHING ORANGE.
Trump descends on the escalator…
That was a very vague question.
To repeat from an earlier post – the greatest enemy in our lives today is Algorithm Man. He carries a computer and makes predictions from data.
Out comes, ‘We are all going to die because of carbon.’ So our politicians panic and we all die from the reaction to the new policies to control carbon. Heroes come along, people who know nothing but can speak to the cameras and join in protests. The pseudo-sciences, like Economics and Social Studies have been doing this for years. And for some reason we believe them.
I once wrote an algorithm. I asked, ‘What can save us from disaster?’ I fed in the economic data and waited patiently. Then the answer came out. SOMETHING ORANGE.
I remember thinking, ‘How could a can of Tango save us?’
”this defensiveness may not be wholly unfounded when “technology” conjures up vaccine passports, social credit systems, lab-grown Frankenfoods, and the WEF trying to persuade us to own nothing and eat insects even as Bill Gates hoovers up farmland, and Guardian leftists champion “rewilding”.’‘
Drop in the bucket! You neglected the tool of your bondage, CBDC and AI.
ChatGPT can, right now, do 20% of the jobs people are doing – it just has to shove the person aside and be the interface between the employer and the work. The displaced Person is of no use to anyone at all.. This is not good – and this is NOW.
Yuval Harari – and his power is Immense, says the huge problem looming, coming at us at the speed of a speeding truck – it almost all people, very soon, will be economically, and societally useless. His answer what to do with them – and you can look it up – is ‘Drugs and Computer Games and VR.’ as in living stoned in pods and eating the bugs till they all finally pass away…….
The Right Wing are Terrified of the coming Tech. And this is 100% as reasonable as the toad being in terror of the harrow which is bumping its way down the field towards it.
Left wing are told the coming tractor is bringing then a nice surprise and they are happy it is coming. (Being completely owned by the Social Media, entertainment and education Industries, and the MSM, who are owned in turn by our psychopathic Overlords)
Ultra MAGA can turn the Tractor, possibly – but it is the very last chance…….Trump is the world’s last hope.
What’s the toad doing in the field in the first place? Shouldn’t it be hanging out with other pondlife, rather than seeking out a harrowing experience?
Probably looking for bugs.
Not if it is the dreaded Cane Toad!
Well said.
You are confusing toads with frogs.
Probably looking for bugs.
Not if it is the dreaded Cane Toad!
Well said.
You are confusing toads with frogs.
“…Yuval Harari – and his power is Immense…”
Yeah, so immense, that he has to take to the graun, jumping up and down shaking his fist at Netanyahu like Yosemite Sam to Bugs Bunny.
“ChatGPT can, right now, do 20% of the jobs people are doing”
Do me a favour, send this ChatGPT bloke round to fix my boiler, would you? Thanks.
If I could give this 20 upticks, I would. Truly great comment.
I’ve just asked Chatgtp why my Grant oil fired boiler is not firing up. It gave a very clear and systematic suggestions as to the possible cause. I doubt it could be bettered by a local plumber.
But who’s going to actually fix it?
But who’s going to actually fix it?
I’ve just asked Chatgtp why my Grant oil fired boiler is not firing up. It gave a very clear and systematic suggestions as to the possible cause. I doubt it could be bettered by a local plumber.
Yuk, yuk!!
If I could give this 20 upticks, I would. Truly great comment.
Yuk, yuk!!
I sure hope he’s not the world’s last hope. What a grim prospect.
AI rendering everyone redundant is Luddite nonsense. Labor saving devices have always led to the redeployment of labor to other tasks, as long as the market was left unregulated enough to do its job. Only central planners are worried about what to do with all these people.
I am considered Right Wing in the US, at least that’s what my family and friends tell me. I voted for Reagan twice and Trump twice. I also had a 45 plus year career in IT, including cyber security. The Right Wing ain’t scared of tech. It’s scared of federal -private partnerships with Big Tech that censor news and social media in violation of the 1st Amendment. You lot don’t have a written Constitution. We do, and it’s quite clear.
Just to remove any doubt, US courts have already ruled that it’s Unconstitutional for government to even suggest that private companies censor something, even if the company refuses to do it. The paragraphs below come from the Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2023, article, “How to Take the Twitter Files to Court,” By Jed Rubenfeld.
Norwood v. Harrison (1973), it is an “axiomatic” principle of constitutional law that the government “may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.” That’s exactly what the Twitter Files show officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies doing—inducing and encouraging Twitter to censor constitutionally protected speech.
Backpage. com v. Dart (2015): When a government official unconstitutionally attempts to induce a private company not to carry someone else’s speech, the official’s conduct “is actionable and can be enjoined” even if the company “ignores it.”
What’s the toad doing in the field in the first place? Shouldn’t it be hanging out with other pondlife, rather than seeking out a harrowing experience?
“…Yuval Harari – and his power is Immense…”
Yeah, so immense, that he has to take to the graun, jumping up and down shaking his fist at Netanyahu like Yosemite Sam to Bugs Bunny.
“ChatGPT can, right now, do 20% of the jobs people are doing”
Do me a favour, send this ChatGPT bloke round to fix my boiler, would you? Thanks.
I sure hope he’s not the world’s last hope. What a grim prospect.
AI rendering everyone redundant is Luddite nonsense. Labor saving devices have always led to the redeployment of labor to other tasks, as long as the market was left unregulated enough to do its job. Only central planners are worried about what to do with all these people.
I am considered Right Wing in the US, at least that’s what my family and friends tell me. I voted for Reagan twice and Trump twice. I also had a 45 plus year career in IT, including cyber security. The Right Wing ain’t scared of tech. It’s scared of federal -private partnerships with Big Tech that censor news and social media in violation of the 1st Amendment. You lot don’t have a written Constitution. We do, and it’s quite clear.
Just to remove any doubt, US courts have already ruled that it’s Unconstitutional for government to even suggest that private companies censor something, even if the company refuses to do it. The paragraphs below come from the Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2023, article, “How to Take the Twitter Files to Court,” By Jed Rubenfeld.
Norwood v. Harrison (1973), it is an “axiomatic” principle of constitutional law that the government “may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.” That’s exactly what the Twitter Files show officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies doing—inducing and encouraging Twitter to censor constitutionally protected speech.
Backpage. com v. Dart (2015): When a government official unconstitutionally attempts to induce a private company not to carry someone else’s speech, the official’s conduct “is actionable and can be enjoined” even if the company “ignores it.”
”this defensiveness may not be wholly unfounded when “technology” conjures up vaccine passports, social credit systems, lab-grown Frankenfoods, and the WEF trying to persuade us to own nothing and eat insects even as Bill Gates hoovers up farmland, and Guardian leftists champion “rewilding”.’‘
Drop in the bucket! You neglected the tool of your bondage, CBDC and AI.
ChatGPT can, right now, do 20% of the jobs people are doing – it just has to shove the person aside and be the interface between the employer and the work. The displaced Person is of no use to anyone at all.. This is not good – and this is NOW.
Yuval Harari – and his power is Immense, says the huge problem looming, coming at us at the speed of a speeding truck – it almost all people, very soon, will be economically, and societally useless. His answer what to do with them – and you can look it up – is ‘Drugs and Computer Games and VR.’ as in living stoned in pods and eating the bugs till they all finally pass away…….
The Right Wing are Terrified of the coming Tech. And this is 100% as reasonable as the toad being in terror of the harrow which is bumping its way down the field towards it.
Left wing are told the coming tractor is bringing then a nice surprise and they are happy it is coming. (Being completely owned by the Social Media, entertainment and education Industries, and the MSM, who are owned in turn by our psychopathic Overlords)
Ultra MAGA can turn the Tractor, possibly – but it is the very last chance…….Trump is the world’s last hope.
Not sure if it’s a matter of optimism vs pessimism. We typically cannot view ourselves from thirty thousand feet, because our individual perceptions are glacial and we are submerged in a pungent broth of emotions and biological drivers – you cannot typically see the true nature of yourself or others around you, for all the distractions. We swallow whole step-change within a few years, and then forget, both collectively and individually what life was like prior. Smartphones are an example. As a late boomer coming from a tecchie background, I always knew for example this particular change of personal mobile devices (or something like it), would eventually arrive. It arrived later than I expected, but transformed the way we exist much faster than I expected. For what it’s worth, I have the strongest feeling something “uuge” (as the protagonist of this piece might have put it) is coming. No idea if I’m right. No idea if I’ll live to see the heart of it. No idea if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
I think you’re right.
One must only hope that cometh the hour cometh the man… or bot.
Like in 1933 for example?
More 1940
More 1940
Like in 1933 for example?
Your inclination is well founded. For the last 200 years, at least, there have been several “huge” innovations that have changed us all very quickly. The issue is that they are coming at warp speed compared to the ancient innovations, which took hundreds of years to gain wide acceptance. The wheel and the printing press come to mind as examples.
The adoption of relatively free market capitalism in the mid to let 1600’s was the key change that started the increased speed of innovation. Intellectual property rights were also a key ingredient.
You should note that it’s the left that wants to regulate innovation to a standstill, at least in the US.
Actual property rights and the Rule of Law to enforce them were even bigger factors.
Actual property rights and the Rule of Law to enforce them were even bigger factors.
The adoption of relatively free market capitalism in the mid to let 1600’s was the key change that started the increased speed of innovation. Intellectual property rights were also a key ingredient.
You should note that it’s the left that wants to regulate innovation to a standstill, at least in the US.
I think you’re right.
One must only hope that cometh the hour cometh the man… or bot.
Your inclination is well founded. For the last 200 years, at least, there have been several “huge” innovations that have changed us all very quickly. The issue is that they are coming at warp speed compared to the ancient innovations, which took hundreds of years to gain wide acceptance. The wheel and the printing press come to mind as examples.
Not sure if it’s a matter of optimism vs pessimism. We typically cannot view ourselves from thirty thousand feet, because our individual perceptions are glacial and we are submerged in a pungent broth of emotions and biological drivers – you cannot typically see the true nature of yourself or others around you, for all the distractions. We swallow whole step-change within a few years, and then forget, both collectively and individually what life was like prior. Smartphones are an example. As a late boomer coming from a tecchie background, I always knew for example this particular change of personal mobile devices (or something like it), would eventually arrive. It arrived later than I expected, but transformed the way we exist much faster than I expected. For what it’s worth, I have the strongest feeling something “uuge” (as the protagonist of this piece might have put it) is coming. No idea if I’m right. No idea if I’ll live to see the heart of it. No idea if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Great article and lots to think about.
Great article and lots to think about.
Ms. Harrington is always compelling and customarily wise. As to the question of Technology, John Ehrett has a thoughtful response in The New Atlantis (Winter 2023): We must use it (for good). We can’t ignore or neglect it. We must master it — because others are evidently bent on using it to the destruction of the West.
Exactly.
I also recommend the excellent book ‘Who Owns the Future?’ by Jaron Lanier.
It’s nice to read about the vision for a tech-mediated future from people who truly are experts in the field, and who are trying to present pragmatic and positive ideas for how we can shape the future into something less dystopian than where we seem to be drifting now.
Exactly.
I also recommend the excellent book ‘Who Owns the Future?’ by Jaron Lanier.
It’s nice to read about the vision for a tech-mediated future from people who truly are experts in the field, and who are trying to present pragmatic and positive ideas for how we can shape the future into something less dystopian than where we seem to be drifting now.
Ms. Harrington is always compelling and customarily wise. As to the question of Technology, John Ehrett has a thoughtful response in The New Atlantis (Winter 2023): We must use it (for good). We can’t ignore or neglect it. We must master it — because others are evidently bent on using it to the destruction of the West.
Inspiring dreams are lovely. The pending debt crisis may negate a lot of such inspiration for a time. Given that the debt issue affects nearly every nation, we will find some hard times may be coming.
True, but all things breaking can also offer us the chance to rethink how things are done and conceive of them in new and better ways, in light of why they broke. Thus even in a crisis, you can find new inspiration.
Well, depends! Certain German politicians (one in particular) found new strength from the economic crisis of the 1930s.
Well, depends! Certain German politicians (one in particular) found new strength from the economic crisis of the 1930s.
True, but all things breaking can also offer us the chance to rethink how things are done and conceive of them in new and better ways, in light of why they broke. Thus even in a crisis, you can find new inspiration.
Inspiring dreams are lovely. The pending debt crisis may negate a lot of such inspiration for a time. Given that the debt issue affects nearly every nation, we will find some hard times may be coming.
One thing I think we can be fairly sure of: there is no going back.
One thing I think we can be fairly sure of: there is no going back.
“For the great many (including Askonas) to whom the answer to this question is “not a lot”, the creative destruction of tech innovation may genuinely seem like a more fruitful option than sitting about in the ruins muttering about Chesterton’s fence.”
Maybe it’s just because I’m middle-aged now, but this seems to me to be at least as funny, clever and perceptive as some of the best stand-up I saw at the Comedy Store in the 1990s before it became all boring, political and self-knowing.
As to the rest of this typically-good article from Mary Harrington, I’m no Trump-fan, but I do have to fall firmly on the side of techno-optimism instead of the dreich, boring and utterly contemptible pessimism of the opposite which only exists at all as a pretext for the extension of statism and all it represents.
“For the great many (including Askonas) to whom the answer to this question is “not a lot”, the creative destruction of tech innovation may genuinely seem like a more fruitful option than sitting about in the ruins muttering about Chesterton’s fence.”
Maybe it’s just because I’m middle-aged now, but this seems to me to be at least as funny, clever and perceptive as some of the best stand-up I saw at the Comedy Store in the 1990s before it became all boring, political and self-knowing.
As to the rest of this typically-good article from Mary Harrington, I’m no Trump-fan, but I do have to fall firmly on the side of techno-optimism instead of the dreich, boring and utterly contemptible pessimism of the opposite which only exists at all as a pretext for the extension of statism and all it represents.
Trump 2024…. Ugh.
Well, looking back to the original Robocop movie (a quote):
“I want a car that has reclining leather seats, goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage!”
The 6000 SUX. If he promises one of those to everyone, I’m in!
What the hell. Why not.
Trump 2024…. Ugh.
Well, looking back to the original Robocop movie (a quote):
“I want a car that has reclining leather seats, goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage!”
The 6000 SUX. If he promises one of those to everyone, I’m in!
What the hell. Why not.
If conservatives stand for anything, it’s economic growth. It’s the left that is determined to crush growth and spread poverty, leading to a world of cricket eating bicyclists.