SUMMARY
OF LEARNERS INTRO
& VOCAB
“Most people do not understand the complicated machinery of the government. They do not realize that every citizen silently but nonetheless certainly sustains the government of the day, in ways of which he has no knowledge. Every citizen therefore renders himself responsible for every act of his government. And it is quite proper to support it, so long as the actions of the government are bearable.” Gandhi quote from Raghavan Iyer’s, The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi, Oxford University Press, New York, 1973, p. 321.
We have reviewed the ways
governments serve and cripple themselves, established what traits they share in
common. We’ve dissected all their
ideo-mumbo, religio-jumbo and technobabble.
We have magnified government to cosmic proportions and field-stripped it
into its component parts. However, if we
persist in old ways, ancient evils threaten to engulf us.
A simple question
remains. Can we prevent weapon
technologies from committing omnicide and killing everything that lives?
If you deny this
likelihood, I beg you, think again.
Weapon technologies have evolved to induce a maximum of pain, death and
destruction—just the same way rattlesnakes have evolved to strike with their
fangs. Years spent imprisoned in a glass
tank won’t inhibit a viper from lashing out against a tempting target dangled
just beyond the glass. Even if this
attack gives the snake nothing but a headache, it will strike anyway, by
reflex.
Decades spent recovering
from catastrophic total wars won’t prevent weapon technologies from exerting
their climax destructive potential, even if this attack gives civilization
nothing but its pink slip. Sorry ‘bout
that, sweety… Next!
Primitive weapon
technologies let loose their climax destruction potential. Up ‘til now, this mass brutality has had little
impact on the biosphere, the living membrane wrapped around the Earth; but a
massive one on the anthrosphere, the much thinner, more fragile membrane that
contains human beings.
Strengthening their
stranglehold on the human spirit, weapon managers (insignificant minorities,
otherwise) monopolized social expression and snuffed out peace politics. Today, a cultural minority consigned to the
margins – even though much more numerous – sings a Capella of peace.
Meanwhile, everyone else quietly venerates the majesty of killing or
ignores weapon management altogether until it’s too late. Thanks to weapons managers’ information
stranglehold, they may wreck the biosphere now and soon wipe out the
anthrosphere. Ready… Set… Go!
We have already perfected
everything required for mass destruction.
There are plenty of trivial but representative examples: quick-firing
artillery, tanks, aircraft and automatic weapons. Then there are the significant ones: nukes,
chems, bugs and scalar 'controls' of weather, tectonics and
electrogravity. We have already
perfected omnicide's mandatory rituals: mass conscription, mass consumption,
weapon bureaucracy, weapon myths
as fresh as they are venerable, etc.
We haven’t quite set off
that final avalanche of death yet—that’s all.
Otherwise, everything we need has been perfected to the brink of
flawless self-destruction.
Even the most devastating
weapon states suppressed their destructive activities to less than their climax
potential. Such halfhearted attempts at
unilateral disarmament have been unique in human history. Otherwise, more and more sophisticated weapon
mentors justified as much brutality as their rapt listeners could carry
out.
During the mid-1800’s, the
German army developed the General Staff College, the first Master’s Degree
Program in Business Administration.
Having lost a hundred times to the French for every time they won; that
was their best shot at fixing the deal.
It was mimicked soon thereafter by every other premier weapon
state. There followed the first General
Staff valedictory exercise: World War I, which I call the Great Paroxysm. During this internship project, the front line
became a giant, open-air shop floor mass-producing misery, mutilation and death. The opposing General Staffs that managed this
disassembly line had more in common with each other than with their own
troops. Bound to their entrepreneurial
armorers, they formed the first modern multinational corporations.
“The Marquis de Bourcet began the process by creating a staff college – the first in the world – in Grenoble, and by writing his Principles of Mountain Warfare in 1764. That administrative school was far more than the first staff college. It was the first modern administrative school of any sort. That is to say, the military began training technocrats almost a century before government administrators started down the same road and 150 years before the first business school appeared. As for Boucet’s Principles of Mountain Warfare, it was to have a great influence on Bonaparte, inspiring his most brilliant campaign―the Italian.” John Ralston Saul, Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, New York, 1992. p. 190. [There follows a very informative history of the development of the Napoleonic Army almost independently of Napoleon, who merely overcame its innate conservatism to impose many earlier innovations].
Actually, the first
multinational corporations arose to peddle weapon religions. Featherweight fabrications, cheap, easy to
manufacture and transport. As long as
freedom of worship and thought could be suppressed with impunity, they were
ideal merchandise for high volume, high-pressure salesmanship, quick profit,
high turnover and long-term monopoly.
Weapon states developed
super-virulent biochem toxins during the Greater Paroxysm (WWII) and
thereafter. The Allies seeded remote
islands with anthrax spores that could still kill sixty years later. Nazi scientists refined lethal gasses and
used them to exterminate human prey by the million; the Japanese did so with
disease.
As we speak, weapon
development goes on without letup, in complete secrecy and criminal silence,
with our blessing. Its end products are
deadly beyond imagining.
Since human encroachment
is destroying more and more biomes, animal diseases must adapt to altered
circumstances or perish. Germs
comfortably adapted to Disease Levels Three and
Four in their usual animal hosts devolve to Levels One
and Two in unfamiliar human hosts.
Meanwhile, unforgivable
public health failures are releasing a Pandora’s Box of ancient plagues. Slightly better financed health agencies
could have held them in check indefinitely or eradicated them altogether. Resurgent cholera, diphtheria, meningitis,
tuberculosis, break-bone fever, malaria, polio and hepatitis betray public
health ignorance and managerial incompetence on global scales.
No modern combatant used his
deadliest weapons, at least against equally armed opponents. It didn’t matter how desperate their outlook
became. We've restrained ourselves
unilaterally, with no public agreement in place; or so one should hope. Hitler, Stalin and their minions could have
farted poison gasses from the rubble of their besieged capitals. Yet all refrained. Japanese artillery could have fired anthrax
and botulism shells into the face of oncoming American Marines, but they
refrained. Americans could have
carpet-bombed Communist countries with disease, and vice-versa against the
American landscape. Barring a few
loose-cannon exceptions, they refrained.
A score of Prism nation-states contend for regional
dominance by threatening their neighbors with massive disruption. North Korea is a typical example of this kind
of international hostage crisis. Picture
a crazed paranoid bunkered in his house and holding a neighbor hostage at
knifepoint. That’s a good illustration
of all our nation-states.
The United States would
croak outright if one hundred ‘small’ atomic warheads flash-fried a like number
of American city centers. The collateral
effect of two hundred million starving, RIIDS-afflicted Americans clawing for survival
would see to the rest. A hundred
nukes? Twenty might do the trick.
RIIDS, by the way, is
Radiation-Induced Immune Disease. It
would be similar to AIDS but would afflict every surviving radiation
victim. Nuclear war officials don’t ever
want to hear a public announcement about RIIDS, ever.
Global civilization would
seize up if less than two hundred fireballs seared major urban nerve centers
across the planet. At least thirty times
that many warheads are poised for the Terminal Paroxysm, plus untold tonnages
of biotoxins and exquisite chemical poisons.
Besides which, scalar weapons of meteorological and tectonic warfare are
on the verge of being perfected.
You may have been told
there are far fewer warheads in inventory; that they’d been reduced through a
series of masterful negotiations… or so you’ve been told. But those counts don’t include ‘tactical’ and
smaller warheads held in secret reserve or those, by the thousands, detached
from their obsolete missiles but still in inventory.
Do you recall this physics
classroom model of gravity? A rubber
sheet is stretched out like a trampoline.
Heavy objects make little dimples in the sheet, representing planets and
stars. The demonstrator rolls a marble
across the sheet. This marble is attracted
to one of the dimples, circles that heavy object a couple of times and then
spirals into contact with it―thus illustrating orbital mechanics?
At this moment,
thirty-four wars disgrace us across WeaponWorld (the rubber sheet). Its relatively small surface shrinks with
every improvement of our communications networks. Each of those wars is a heavy
weight—especially the war between Israel and Palestine: the central sun of our
weapon solar system. The marbles are
nuclear weapons (properly secured, or passed from hand to terrorist hand). We’re just waiting for one of those marbles
to click against one of those heavy objects.
Then, boom!
Remember, when (not if)
the nuclear curtain does come down, every nuclear reactor, chemical factory,
petroleum refinery and bio-toxin lab will blow.
Indeed, almost every forest glade, grain field, frame house, household
match and baby’s curl in the Northern Hemisphere will burst into flame and
toxic smoke. Simultaneously? More probably dragging on for years, as a
rationed trickle of nuclear warheads gets doled out from snug, well-hidden
command bunkers.
This prolonged desolation
will turn into very bad news. Radiation
levels will remain lethal for years, especially on the site of ex-big cities
and downwind of them. They include the
best sites for ocean and river ports, mountain plateaus and passes, and
healthier elevations in boggy lowlands: geographic features civilization would
bind irreplaceable. Many surviving crops
will remain toxic for decades.
People fantasize all too
often about a two-week-long nuclear war.
“Two weeks of hell, then the survivors can start rebuilding!” This two-week figure is derived from the
Nuclear Rule of Sevens. Radioactive
contamination drops by 90% every time another power of seven hours elapses
after each fireball.
Twenty minutes after an
explosion, let’s say your little corner of the Earth gets hit with a thousand
roentgens. That would be a pretty light
dose downwind of most bombs; it could easily be ten or twenty times stronger or
more. Five hundred roentgens will kill
everyone exposed to it in a few hours or days of rot-from-the-inside
agony.
You’d better get yourself
into in a deep-dug, blast-proof shelter armored with steel, lead plates and
foot-thick concrete walls, with carefully filtered air and your own reservoir
of clean water. Make sure that you can
dig yourself out from under the treacherously heavy surface debris; also, that
your shelter is far enough away from this fuel-for-firestorms. Better to die quickly in the primary blast,
than to suffocate or cook slowly in your bunker. Such shelters cannot be improvised on short
notice, no matter what you've been told.
Explosion plus 7 hours:
one hundred roentgens: a very nasty dose, soon lethal for many from lingering
cancer. Don’t stir from your deep
shelter.
Plus 7 x 7 hours = 49
hours or two days: ten roentgens. Don’t
eat or drink anything exposed, don’t breathe the outside air for very long,
throw away or bury any clothing you've worn outdoors, plus shower thoroughly in
precious, clean water. Never use rain
or surface water at this time! Don't
bother to boil or filter it; it will be radioactive in any case.
I hope Uncle Sam paid for
your bomb shelter with its self-contained water supply and thoroughly filtered
air, because no-one other than millionaires could afford it. Did you know the Swiss built blast-proof
shelter space for all their citizens, with filtered air, good water and
sufficient supplies? At least they used
to… The rest of us were too cheap to see
to it.
You know, Holland was
broke after World War II. Thousands of
Dutch died of starvation. Nonetheless,
the Dutch built a massive dike system in 1953, which rich Americans never
managed to replicate around New Orleans.
Capitalist pigs.
Plus 7 x 7 x 7 hours = 2
weeks, radiation levels supposedly back to ‘normal.’
Then again, the soil is
still ‘hot’ at aboveground nuclear test sites.
A half a century later, it gives off twice the 'normal' background
radiation count. In turn, that 'normal'
count has tripled since World War II (and probably quintupled since 2011
Fukushima). So much for the “rule of
sevens!”
And good luck rebuilding
civilization!
This, assuming your
particular bomb wasn't maliciously clad with “dirty” isotopes that have longer
half-lives. If so, multiply the poison
time by half (using gold cladding, higher initial radiation with a shorter
duration), by twice, by years, perhaps by thousands of years. It depends on the toxic cladding.
In any case, the dirtiest
bombs are so-called Hydrogen Bombs (H-bombs), only 10 or 15% of whose energy is
released by thermonuclear fusion and the rest by very radioactive and dirty
fission processes (thanks a lot, Edward Teller). This according to an article by Howard Morland,
“The Holocaust Bomb: a Question of Time, at http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/morland.html. See also an
historic article on the H-Bomb in Progressive magazine, http://www.progressive.org/images/pdf/1179.pdf. Sorry about the PDF can of worms.
Start the counter closer
to 20,000 than 1,000 roentgens, and calculate accordingly (over 100 days
instead of a mere 14 spent underground, to get back to almost ‘safe’ exposure
levels).
Also, this formula doesn’t
take into account second, third, fourth,
etc. waves of nuclear attack. The
radioactivity from each wave would last as long as the first and add to its
malignancy.
Could you hold your breath
that long underground? Raise your sheep,
rabbits and children underground; your mushrooms, carrots, potatoes and the
grain for your daily bread? I doubt
it. When you emerge from your shelter,
remove eighteen inches of permanently contaminated topsoil (somewhere, somehow)
and grow what you can in the clay below that.
Five central command nodes
reined in nuclear proliferation during the Cold War: France, the US, the USSR,
China and the UK. Despite this strict limitation,
nuclear accidents and tripwire confrontations were a lot more scary and
numerous than the perfectly blank score currently advertised.
Now that the Soviet Union
has spun out of the arms race – at least temporarily – any billionaire with a
taste for genocide can acquire his own nuke or the makings thereof. Another dozen countries are lining up to
brandish nuclear arsenals, with well-financed terrorist organizations not far
behind.
Scalar weapons’ antenna
arrays are even easier to build. They
can transmit destructive energies from any corner of the Earth, targeting any
other spot, unstoppable and hard to trace.
At low energy levels, they can broadcast irritating fields over wide
areas that make everyone affected unnaturally irritable, stupid and Republican. The Soviet leader Khrushchev threatened to do
just that, back in the 1960’s when the USSR began this research. Reactionary tendencies in the American
heartland may be attributable to this ongoing irradiation.
Slightly higher energy
levels can sicken living things in the targeted zone and eventually kill
them. Electromagnetic equipment, no
matter how well shielded, can be neutralized, whether point targets or those across
broad areas. Higher energy levels can be
focused on high and low atmospheric pressure fronts to induce disastrous
weather effects. Greater energy
applications could distort seismic fault lines and trigger an earthquake. Apparently, this weapon can be used
defensively to create a bubble of total destruction around protected sites,
which might even swallow incoming nuclear missiles.
The renowned inventor
Tesla initiated these studies.
Apparently, he abandoned them after the Tunguska atmospheric explosion
in 1908. Draw your own conclusions.
What is most disturbing about
scalar transmissions is the fact that they can, by their very nature, multiply input energy instead of
diminishing it through the inefficiencies of transmission. Feed the energy of, say, one atomic reactor
into this antenna array, and get the effect of thousands at the targeted point
or area.
Seismic and meteorological
phenomena have this in common: they represent energies equivalent to tens,
hundreds and thousands of nuclear weapons exploding simultaneously and in
series.
Soon their construction
will be thoroughly understood and demonstrated during a few mind-boggling
exercises (three direct-hit hurricanes in a row, anyone?). Soon thereafter, inconsequential terrorist organizations and individuals could
take advantage of scalar weapons, much more readily than expensive, cumbersome,
dangerous and easily traceable atomic (fission reaction, breaking down heavy
isotopes, producing kiloton explosions equal to thousands of tons of TNT) and
nuclear weapons (fusion, jamming two simple atoms together to form one bigger
one, producing megaton explosions equal to millions of tons of TNT, up to fifty
million tons (the “Tsar Bomba” Russian test
explosion) – or more?) Their only
explosive limit is the weight and volume of the explosive device.
Who could imagine a million tons of dynamite going off in a
split second?
This new constant input to
the threat formula induces hallucinatory results. Weapons elites would rather hone their
precious threat deterrents without interruption. No matter how abject the outcome, they insist
that any conflict surpassing a minimalist, AK-47-and-machete stage can be
analyzed and checked with the same old military arithmetic. Yet they always wind up juggling imaginary
results.
It’s like a tax form’s
impenetrable arithmetic: “When you’ve finished with your sums, divide the
end-result by the nuclear square root of -1.”
The climax use of weapons
has never been a sane proposition; it has become even less so. No longer can major powers go stomping
wherever they will, with all the firepower at their disposal. World opinion would never let them achieve
‘decisive’ victory. “You've made a
wasteland and called it Peace.” The
losing side’s only option would be nuclear counterstrike.
Some may conclude that we
haven’t started the next nuclear war yet, despite sixty years of trying. They’re positive we’re not about to start one
now or any time soon.
This self-limitation to
killing doesn’t take into account new biotechnologies. Using breakthrough skills that will become
commonplace in the next few years, lone whackos may cook up incredibly
infectious, flesh-eating microbes, in their kitchen sinks so to speak. For example, crazy city-killers could find
fully equipped workbenches in Community College laboratories.
The state-of-the-art in
biological warfare includes the ability to string together the components of a
new organism, more or less like the boxcars of a freight train. One can take the infectiousness of a flu
virus, say, and attach the biotoxin producing machinery of Ebola or Yellow
Fever; tailor one’s weapon system to any circumstance or level of lethality
desired. The only thing that has
prevented the release of these experimental models, until now, is that they
might mutate beyond the reach of the vaccine designed to protect one’s own
people.
This problem would not
deter the psychopathic geniuses that WeaponWorld mass produces and leaves
adrift to do their worst.
New bio-nano-technologies
will compound the problem. They could
soon produce lethal, microscopic, self-duplicating biocyborgs deliverable as
liquid or powder aerosols. Those weapon
technologies would put continent-scale casualties within the reach of any
industrious psychopath on Earth. It’s a
question of less than a decade before these technologies mature.
This process illustrates Buckminster Fuller’s model of ephemeralization: so-called “progress.” More activity (killing) can
be accomplished with fewer and fewer material, time and cost overheads.
“In 1917, … more performance with less weight and volume of materials, less ergs of energy, and less seconds of time investment per each accomplished unit of performance, manifested itself for the first time in the metallurgy, chemistry and electronics of World War I sea and sky armaments.” Critical Path, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1981, pp. 132-33.
The ultimate outcome of
this weapon ephemeralization might turn out to be global military
paralysis. Following a few military
catastrophes in the near future, everyone except crazy people will become too
scared to so much as twitch.
This resembles the
evolution of threat behaviors among wild carnivore packs. The deadlier the predators’ teeth and claws,
the more elaborate, ceremonial and ‘polite’ the pack’s social arrangements had
to become, to prevent its self-destruction.
Those packs that rejected exquisitely polite behavior, lost the
evolutionary game for keeps; their DNA went down the drain. In the same way, international nobility had
to invent courtly etiquette and flowery palaver, because any suggestion of personal
insult drew hot passion, cold steel and warm blood.
Tedious militarists whine
long and loud whenever a check is placed on their killing. They shriek for a return to the good old days
of unrestrained gore. During the Korean
and Vietnamese Paroxysms, they bewailed orders curtailing proposed aggression
against China, Russia and the Warsaw Pact.
In vain, they made unending appeals for more offensive activity to
‘eliminate enemy sanctuaries.’ Actually,
the ultimate sanctuary of Viet Cong guerrilla was the command bunker of the
Soviet Strategic Rocket Troops.
Meanwhile, French
Armageddon enthusiasts indulged in the latest weapon ritual: smashing coral
reefs as nuclear test sites so that the international brotherhood of weapon
scientists could refine its calculations of genocide. They were finding out how to carve the
diamond facets of an opponent's military hard points, rather than flatten his
cities as area targets. As if anyone
among the victims and their allies would restrain themselves in this manner
once this mass stupidity began.
Another interesting weapon
myth is the allegation of mass betrayal.
Cocky militarists often stretch their nationalist ambitions beyond a
realistic assessment of their country’s strength and weakness. As a result, they get their nation
stomped. This may be the subconscious
goal of every weapon manager: to get his unbearably peaceful homies gunned
down, once and for all.
Once they manage to get
their country crushed, they swan dive for neutral bank accounts and balmy
fascist shores. Emerging from their
nosedives, a decade or so later, their first words are always the same. “We were betrayed!”
The German Army, bled
white and collapsing at the end of World War I, blamed German progressives for
surrendering. Hitler’s henchmen accused
the long-suffering German people of betraying them in their woeful endgame of
the Greater Paroxysm. American hawks
left Vietnam a smoking, poisonous ruin, convinced they had defeated the
Communists in detail. Faithful National
Capitalists, they had robbed honest Vietnamese patriots of their hard-fought
patrimony and handed it over to the worst Conspirators of Greed they could
find. Then they went home, disgusted
with their civilian counterparts who had ‘forced’ them into defeat.
As if any outcome but
genocide, disgrace and panicky evacuation were possible under those
circumstances. The only other one would
have been nuclear war: first across the length and breadth of East Asia, and
soon thereafter across the entire world.
No matter what those
weapon mentors may have told you, keep one thing in mind. The American phase of the Vietnam War was an
exercise in raw genocide – no more, no less – practiced and covered up with
Nazi thoroughness. The CIA, the West
Point Protective Association, the rich and powerful people who conspired to
assassinate President John F. Kennedy and thus override his veto of the
war—every one of them has kept busy ever since, covering the gut trails of
their innocent victims.
The Chinese government was
just as delighted to stage international Wrestle Mania in Vietnam. They knew it was the home of the most
unconquerable patriots in Southeast Asia.
Those rebels had thumbed their noses at the Chinese for millennia, no
matter how many Vietnamese got massacred in the process. What a supreme irony, that America’s arrogant
and ignorant militarists could be driven to stub their toes against those
intractable rebels.
These mass-murderers
permitted My Lai (my lie) and many similar atrocities. They insist that no real American patriot may
speak of such things. Those massacres
were just the tip of a global gore-Slurpee they’ve mixed up under our
noses. The least whiff of its stench has
penetrated our nostrils, and we are more than ready to dismiss that bad stink
as some aberration. There it is again;
can’t you smell it, wafting from Iraq and Afghanistan, with all its predictable
consequences?
These people’s satanic
disciples still run the United States and through it, the entire world. Any new atrocity that overtakes this planet
will be their handiwork, in pursuit of their dream of a Thousand Year Reich of
murder and misery. Their apotheosis and
ultimate defensive tactic, of course, will be to reduce civilization back to
the Cro-Magnon stage or worse, while they remain bunkered in deep comfort.
Until these facts are
inscribed in the official record and until these ghouls are
officially called out for their atrocities, none of them may be trusted. Until then, none of their hallowed institutions
will do the right thing except by mistake or revolt. We may not feel free to heave a deep sigh of
relief until the American government discloses the identities of everyone
involved in the conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. Once the survivors express sincere regret for
their part in the murder, or once they've all died and been officially
condemned, but never before.
The Vietnam War:
winnable? Iraq, Afghanistan? My ass.
Modern weapon technologies
are scaling themselves down from hordes of expensive bludgeons, to a handful of
horrifically expensive, chrome-steel scalpels.
A few orbital satellites, small terrorist cells, commando troops and
guerrilla bands promise to replace swarms of ships, planes, tanks and
ICBMs. All the bludgeon hordes will be
carefully conserved, of course, for deployment whenever it’s most
convenient.
In the recent past, there
were at least seven thousand Abrams main battle tanks parked out in the
American desert. Our armored units
needed three thousand replacements, at most.
The others were waiting to be worn out in Iraq, no doubt… And no doubt are being replaced as we speak,
at our expense.
The only thing the
American Army has learned in its recent wars, is how to manage a civil
insurrection. I use the word “manage”
advisedly, as in managing a campfire.
How to make preparations for one, start it up, fan it hot and keep it
going indefinitely.
For reactionary fanatics
here in the USA, (and there are millions of them who never learned in person
about the Nazis’ failure and disgrace: at least twenty percent of the
population) the worst insurgents are moderates in their own ranks and everyone
on the other side. That's the insurgency
they are preparing to fight. Unlike the
American Civil War – prior to which slavers at the helm of American government
stacked the deck in their favor through various swindles, but lost because the
industrial base still belonged to the North – this time, they will control
everything that’s left of the American industrial plant they have been wrecking
for decades. Their hope is that this
degradation will allow them to prevail over the ruins of America their
associates learned to despise since they lost the Civil War. Filthy, unrepentant slave masters…
In theory, at least,
modern weapons are ‘surgically’ precise; they promise to decrease collateral
damage to the biosphere, as well as cause fewer casualties among unarmed
combatants. In practice? The Gulf War’s hundreds of thousands of
children murdered by being deprived of simple medicine, clean water and
adequate food; devastated economies and sewerfied ecologies across the planet:
these illustrate what “minimal collateral damage” entails. The controlled demolition of the Twin Towers,
likewise.
Downstream consequences,
my young Learners. Pay more attention to
unforeseen downstream consequences.
We need no longer limit
ourselves to bilateral squabbles. In the
future, all sides will suffer similar strategic insults. It will become more and more difficult to pin
down exactly who did what to whom. This
proliferation of devastation will offer tempting excuses for weapon elites to
reduce native living standards and civil rights.
Non-sustainable
technologies are not bad per se, but
because they cannot be sustained.
Inevitably, the price of survival essentials will skyrocket. Each nation’s pampered elite will have to
confront its disgruntled info-proletariat, led by avenging proto-elites and
armed by calculating foreign powers.
Gleaming
in the eyes of orphaned refugees rendered psychotic, drafted on drawing boards
for future delivery, or carefully stockpiled and readied for use against
us: these weapons of mass destruction
have our names stenciled all over them.
They need only be broken out in earnest and issued to millions of
itchy-fingered troops – or a handful of pistol-waving fanatics – to be rained
down on us without letup.
How can we possibly dodge
this death sentence?
LEARNERS: On the Move from WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld