I totally agree. Completely amoral pleasure-seeking with no consequences, unreal depictions of women, disparaging depictions of family and the demonization of men has helped shape a generation that, according to all research, is the unhappiest cohort of people to ever grace the planet.
Western warfare has been a game, since the transformation of barbaric fiefdoms into Christendom. Other than the Reconquista of Iberia, European wars were between Christians, ie among monocultural sociopolitical entities. After Carolus Magnus' genocidal crusade against the pagan Saxons, no real external, alien sociocultural force threatened Christendom, until the rise of the Osman house in the East. Perpetual internecine warfare among Christians seems to have reduced the concept of war into a ritualized game for the aristocracy in the Western mind. Thus, the fascinating, perplexing, and comical Western concepts of jus ad bellum and jus in bello in discussing "proper" conduct in war - a sociocultural conflict between irreconcilable societies who can not communicate effectively to reach a peaceful consensus.
The Western mind has perceived war as a game, since the Middle Ages. Even within the 20th century, the fools in government prattle about "war on poverty," "war of drugs," and quote Sun Tzu when discussing mercantile dealings. In a sense, Christian sensibility and the ludicrous notion of just war theories have reduced war into a game, resulting in a polity more willing to kill than not - a paradox or irony of sorts. War is the extermination of the opposing idea, using any available force, even nuclear or biological annihilation. The theory of "just war" is claptrap nonsense that results in more hazard than benefit to the human race.
Another insightful comment, everything today is "war-gamed" until optimal vectors for compliance is reached. At the time of the American Revolution the gamification of war by the aristocracy, as you note, was complete. The madness of the "rulers" was nowhere more apparent than in the line attacks of musket warfare, where lines of men stood at point blank range and shot at each other:
I agree with everything you shared in this post. There is a solution. Get with our committee's of safety and learn what the law actually is. Then we can regain accountability from our governments. If just two percent of Americans did this the corruption wouldn't have a chance.
You can find a committee of safety on the below website.
Accountability is key, getting it back is an uphill battle. I wrote a lengthy series on doing just that via ballot initiatives starting here. It is a long read, but it might interest you. Thanks for the link, will check it out.
They already have drones that are remote controlled from halfway across the world and used for air-strikes. From the 'pilot' perspective, it's a lot like playing a video game.
True that. The reason AI is the logical next step is people can disobey. That and even drone pilots get traumatized when they reflect on what they are doing. News story on drone pilot ptsd
I remember all of those episodes! You know what concerns me even more than the possibility of people being tricked into warfare with augmented reality is the idea of AI making the decision on who lives and who dies. I think they've already tested it out on the drones if I remember correctly. Even if we could convince corporations in general to implement Asimov's three laws of robotics it's highly doubtful that any meaningful parties like the defense department or other foreign militaries would adopt it. Same thing as gun control really, impossible.
It concerns me that so many millennials derive their moral compass from hollywood.
I totally agree. Completely amoral pleasure-seeking with no consequences, unreal depictions of women, disparaging depictions of family and the demonization of men has helped shape a generation that, according to all research, is the unhappiest cohort of people to ever grace the planet.
Western warfare has been a game, since the transformation of barbaric fiefdoms into Christendom. Other than the Reconquista of Iberia, European wars were between Christians, ie among monocultural sociopolitical entities. After Carolus Magnus' genocidal crusade against the pagan Saxons, no real external, alien sociocultural force threatened Christendom, until the rise of the Osman house in the East. Perpetual internecine warfare among Christians seems to have reduced the concept of war into a ritualized game for the aristocracy in the Western mind. Thus, the fascinating, perplexing, and comical Western concepts of jus ad bellum and jus in bello in discussing "proper" conduct in war - a sociocultural conflict between irreconcilable societies who can not communicate effectively to reach a peaceful consensus.
The Western mind has perceived war as a game, since the Middle Ages. Even within the 20th century, the fools in government prattle about "war on poverty," "war of drugs," and quote Sun Tzu when discussing mercantile dealings. In a sense, Christian sensibility and the ludicrous notion of just war theories have reduced war into a game, resulting in a polity more willing to kill than not - a paradox or irony of sorts. War is the extermination of the opposing idea, using any available force, even nuclear or biological annihilation. The theory of "just war" is claptrap nonsense that results in more hazard than benefit to the human race.
Another insightful comment, everything today is "war-gamed" until optimal vectors for compliance is reached. At the time of the American Revolution the gamification of war by the aristocracy, as you note, was complete. The madness of the "rulers" was nowhere more apparent than in the line attacks of musket warfare, where lines of men stood at point blank range and shot at each other:
An answer like yours, makes me follow you.
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Relevance: Skynet in it's Larval stage
Our Purpose
I agree with everything you shared in this post. There is a solution. Get with our committee's of safety and learn what the law actually is. Then we can regain accountability from our governments. If just two percent of Americans did this the corruption wouldn't have a chance.
You can find a committee of safety on the below website.
https://www.nationallibertyalliance.org/
Accountability is key, getting it back is an uphill battle. I wrote a lengthy series on doing just that via ballot initiatives starting here. It is a long read, but it might interest you. Thanks for the link, will check it out.
This is what happens when fictions can be protected Principals. Lot's of cartoons are running the world.
The governments are the cartoons, drawn by the careful hands of the money masters.
They already have drones that are remote controlled from halfway across the world and used for air-strikes. From the 'pilot' perspective, it's a lot like playing a video game.
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True that. The reason AI is the logical next step is people can disobey. That and even drone pilots get traumatized when they reflect on what they are doing. News story on drone pilot ptsd
War is fought for the masters. Nations are built for the masters. Everything is done for the masters.
"If my sons did not want wars, there would be none." -Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
Are Rothschilds so powerful?
I remember all of those episodes! You know what concerns me even more than the possibility of people being tricked into warfare with augmented reality is the idea of AI making the decision on who lives and who dies. I think they've already tested it out on the drones if I remember correctly. Even if we could convince corporations in general to implement Asimov's three laws of robotics it's highly doubtful that any meaningful parties like the defense department or other foreign militaries would adopt it. Same thing as gun control really, impossible.