Macbraughton

After spending a good deal of time crafting a response to this extremely provocative article in Gizmag, “Does the Global Elite Serve the Masses?”, I wrote the following comment. Since comments system on Gizmag isn’t working right now I’m sharing it here. I feel that my response appeals to a wider audience… enjoy.

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Todd, you are totally right.  We should worship our transhumanist overlords without questioning their divine benevolence and graciousness towards the weak, pathetic and powerless mess that the rest of humanity has become.   We should never worry whether or not they would use that power to advance themselves at the cost of less wealthy or influential beings.  It is our gift from God, this capitalist free market global economy, where only the pure of heart prosper in attempts to amass wealth and gain carnal immortality.

Psssssshaaaaw

Anyways, aside from the CIA funded, communist bashing bozo who is one of the only people brave or stupid enough to post something on this strangely placed article, I happen to have just been thinking about how these powerful disparities work themselves out.

It is of no doubt that many of us benefit from the current system, just take a look a the logos on our clothes and computers. I’m writing this post right now with the help of untold millions of laboring Chinese who actually built the electronic components that power my computer and most of the electronics on the planet. As well as an increasing percentage of all goods manufactured globally, period.

Sure, it used to be British , or American, or German, or Japanese products that we brought home: but things change, and are changing ever faster still. The affluence of these countries is one of the main reasons that they have become so unproductive: they can sit back and let somebody else do the grunt work.

I find it hilarious that bozo here would bash the commies when there is slim to no chance that he would be writing this post without the aid of “stuff” not created because of merit, but because the barrel of a gun is pointed at a bunch of people who are given no choice but to “build this or die.”

The same thing happened in the West during the Industrial Revolution, but we would like to forget that most of our grandparents grew up in poor rural settings, labouring on farms or in unsafe and filthy factories. Many of them moved to the cities to escape the poverty of the country, only to experience the poverty of the city.

There is indeed a great disparity in the world, and those of us in the middle are the only ones who have the perspective to question it, yet few of us would dare because it would make apparent our own hypocrisy. We are the ones that live in the space between slave labourers and masters of the universe: we know what it’s like to have some power, and also to be subject to the limitations of finite resources.

This is why we fear a war on the middle class, because the “powers that would be” can never count on us to just stick with the plan. Lackey’s can always be bought out by someone else, or could have one of those those rare and usually fleeting moments of conscience… which we all know by watching so many Hollywood movies usually just gets them killed.

No wonder nobody wants to touch this one. The thought police are sure to come after me…

You gonna let them do this to the world, you gonna help them, or you gonna try to build a better place with your own two hands?

Who’s the propaganda machine now?