[WAR] ...

[Mirimir]

On 09/01/2016 09:25 AM, Razer wrote:

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> Something Paul Goodman, founder of Gestalt Therapy and Anarchist said to
> some technologists in 1967 comes to mind
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> "...speaking by invitation to the National Security Industrial
> Association —a consortium of arms manufacturers at the October 1967
> “Research and Development in the 1970s.” symposium, Washington DC:
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>     “You are the military industrial [complex] of the United States, the
> most dangerous body of men at present in the world, for you not only
> implement our disastrous policies but are an overwhelming lobby for
> them, and you expand and rigidify the wrong use of brains, resources,
> and labor so that change becomes difficult.”

Truth.

>     (He continued as the audience sat in stunned silence.)
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>     “The best service you people could perform is rather rapidly to
> phase yourselves out, passing on your relevant knowledge to people
> better qualified, or reorganizing yourselves with entirely different
> sponsors and commitments, so that you learn to think and feel in a
> different way.
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>     Since you are most of the R&D [research and development] that there
> is, we cannot do without you as people, but we cannot do with you as you
> are.”
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>     (laughter and booing along with scattered applause)
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>     “but we believe, however, that that way of life is unnecessary,
> ugly, and un-American.”
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>     (Shouts from the audience: “Who are ‘we’?”)
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>     “We are I and those people outside —we cannot condone your present
> operations; they should be wiped off the slate.”

Fucking hippies ;)

> All the R&D and so-called intelligence applied to software and computer
> development is USELESS to anyone but the 'war machine' if it's all about
> ME, and not "those people outside".

Didn't turn out well :(

> http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/92438085944
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>> The article cited in the original post is a commentary on this essay:
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>> http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/04/17/toward-a-global-realignm
>> ent/
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>> =or=
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>> https://tinyurl.com/zbig180
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>> Wherein Brzezinski says:
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>> "While no state is likely in the near future to match America’s
>> economic-financial superiority, new weapons systems could suddenly
>> endow some countries with the means to commit suicide in a joint
>> tit-for-tat embrace with the United States, or even to prevail.
>> Without going into speculative detail, the sudden acquisition by some
>> state of the capacity to render America militarily inferior would
>> spell the end of America’s global role. The result would most probably
>> be global chaos. And that is why it behooves the United States to
>> fashion a policy in which at least one of the two potentially
>> threatening states becomes a partner in the quest for regional and
>> then wider global stability, and thus in containing the least
>> predictable but potentially the most likely rival to overreach.
>> Currently, the more likely to overreach is Russia, but in the longer
>> run it could be China.
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>> "Since the next twenty years may well be the last phase of the more
>> traditional and familiar political alignments with which we have grown
>> comfortable, the response needs to be shaped now. During the rest of
>> this century, humanity will also have to be increasingly preoccupied
>> with survival as such on account of a confluence of environmental
>> challenges. Those challenges can only be addressed responsibly and
>> effectively in a setting of increased international accommodation. And
>> that accommodation has to be based on a strategic vision that
>> recognizes the urgent need for a new geopolitical framework.
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>> ... and that's a paradigm shift, coming as it does from the man who
>> created Al Qaida and laid the foundation for today's business as usual
>> methods for regime change a.k.a. NeoColonial conquest.
>>
>> We now return to our regularly scheduled Cypherpunks, a world of pure
>> imagination where smart people like us would rise to the top of the
>> social hierarchy on merit alone and fix the world, if only those
>> damned [scapegoat name here] would get the hell out of our way.
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>> :o)
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