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Illusions Lost - An Elegy in Three Parts (I)

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The technocrats are the not-so-smart creator-gods who are building the not-actually-sustainable future.

The 'smart' machines are their creatures, who will populate the 'smart' future, doing their gods' work.

Non-living, non-feeling, non-thinking creatures.

Dead, soul-less, mindless automatons, mimicking "smart" behavior.

A simulacrum of life and intelligence, acted out by robots running algorithms. Robots that replace intelligent living feeling people.

Technocrats are the gods of the lifeless machines.

Ruling over a world without people.

In their sustainable "smart" future.

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I spent my working life as an independent small business owner/operator. My academic background is in philosophy and political economy. I began studying monetary systems and monetary history after the 1982 banking crash that was precipitated by (more...)
 

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