Tuesday, May 4, 2021

The 'borg

A pretty common trope in sci-fi, way back to the very beginning of the genre, is the goal of civilization is to merge man and machine.

The 'borg is one great example of that. The cylons in battlestar galactica is another one. In Star Wars the Empire is the merged man and machine. They are the inverse of nature and produce a "Death Star". The transhumanists promote that agenda in real life today.

There's a few industry front-men for that agenda--like Bill Gates and Elon Musk. Oddly enough a creature like Gretard seems to serve that same agenda, but from a different angle.

The covid vaccine is one step along the road toward their agenda. It's meant to be a synthetic lab brewed replacement of humanity's normal immune response. It's very borg like, though, and seems to be pretty janky and maybe doesn't even work at all at its overtly stated objective.

There's three ancient twin myths I can think of off the top of my head, and they all involve entering into the city (aka technological civilization): Romulus and Remus--Romulus kills Remus and founds Rome. Cain and Abel. Cain kills Abel and is forced to live in a city and work, basically. The Epic of Gilgamesh--a wild natural man--starts with Enkidu entering the city to fight Gilgamesh.

Thousands of years ago, the authors of those myths were skeptical of technology, and back then there was hardly any technology... but it already had pernicious and obvious side effects. The smelting of bronze, and bronze work, for example, included toxic chemicals that left people lame.

Our world today is really chock full of pollutants as a byproduct of industrial civilization, and especially the use of petrochemicals, which seem to be really pernicious. For example, the problem of plastic accumulating in the ocean and in marine life, and eventually in people, seems to be a problem that's inherent in the material and basic chemistry of the substances that go into plastic.

There seems to be some real problem with moving things too far out of their natural condition, e.g. plastic, or even something like bronze and copper. The natural world has adaptations and methods for breaking down and reclaiming certain categories of materials without much intervention from additional industrial processes. Wood, glass, steel, cast iron, plus every natural material are good examples.

It seems pretty likely that an even more severe form of pollution will arise from GMOs. We're insane and retarded to allow their use.

I think we're at the end of the road of this phase of our civilization. We're either going to end up 'borged and the planet wrecked quite contrary to all the good intentions of assholes like Bill Gates and the people writing scripts for Gretard, or we're going to go a different direction maybe after a big cataclysm.

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