Robot army development

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDIW8K3B254

Here we have the undoubted good guys developing their robot army both in the sky and on the ground. Ukraine is clearly surviving and thereby defeating the invading forces; the Russians are barely moving the front line, while suffering appallingly worse casualties and equipment losses alongside a collapsing economy.

But the automation of the army, as indicated in my previous piece is terrible news for the 99% of humanity. We are no longer much use, even as cannon fodder. Workers have already lost their economic power, in case you hadn't noticed, and now the soldiers are being made redundant too. This could lead to a happy community of plenty cooperating in a sustainable life supported by technology. But it is heading in another direction entirely: towards a cull of humanity orchestrated by the sociopath/psychopath class.

Resist the division of humanity as best you can. Don't hate foreigners, Jews, blacks, trans, woke, snowflakes the right, the left, don't even hate the robots. Hate the cruel, the greedy, the dishonest, the divisive. We are all capable of these things, but few of us like and encourage the worst of ourselves in others. Those that do are the only enemies we have.

They are out to get you.

 In case you have not noticed, the US is in a state of undeclared civil war. The current government has become aware that the advent of robotics, AI, and 3D printing has changed the fundamentals of the economy. It used to be that mass production, and mass consumption was the best way to produce a surplus, but more and more this is becoming unnecessary to the elite. Instead of raising the living standards of all, in order to have the workers all employed, they can mass produce automatically as required with only a few technicians, and an army of robots. And they can defend their empires with an army of robots too. 

So no need for vaccinations, no need for universal healthcare, no need for due process, or justice, no need for 99% of humanity. The warming planet and associated weather disruption will help to get rid of this excess of peasantry, along with some intractable wars and ethnic conflicts. So far, this plan is largely unopposed in any significant fashion, and people lament the uncaring government as though it is mere incompetence and not a suite of deliberate extermination policies.

It's not just the US, of course; the same economic facts apply worldwide. We are heading for a human population crash worldwide as droughts, floods, sea-level rise, pollution and land degradation reduce the food supply and the water supply, and the shelter supply. And the people in charge, those that have led us all to this catastrophe,  are keen to encourage us to kill each other before we think to blame them.

But we ain't to blame, we're only pawns in their game.

It's been a while

I've been posting mainly on a philosophy forum, but have decided for various reasons to take a break and am now exploring Bluesky. And I realise that the format requires something like a blog to link to anything that needs more than a paragraph to expound. 

Hence the resurrection  of this old thing. I haven't gone back to edit or second guess the old posts, and I may have changed my mind in the meantime - but probably not because I am arrogant and stubborn. But I don't think you will find much racist bullying and nazi salutes in my misspent youth, so look if you care to or not if you don't.

The defenceless tomatoes and aerial display.

Mrs unenlightened's new book.

Well I think it's rather good, but then I am so close to it that I hardly trust my own judgement. But here is an unsolicited response from someone we had not seen for forty years, that we gave a copy to.

I'm reading Isabel's book and I more than love it, there is a pureness about it that I find so refreshing.

Have you ever thought of making it into "radio novel", everything about the book, so far, is full of images, history, psychology and incredible human feeling. The whole content, read so far, is an experience that would help so many, many people though their changing moods and life's experiences.

Isabel you have written a book that I will read over and over again, thank you for giving it to me.

So jump in, folks, and invest in a first edition now, and when the film comes out and a major publisher takes it up, you'll be quids in.