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> Bezos Reveals His Ugly Vision For The World He's Trying To Rule

> "Guess what the best planet is in this solar system?" asked Amazon CEO Jeff
> Bezos at a recent media event on his Blue Origin space program.

> "It's easy to know the answer to that question," he continued. "We've sent
> robotic probes like this one to all of the planets in our solar system.
> Now, some of them have been fly-bys, but we've examined them all. Earth is
> the best planet. It is not close. This one is really good."

> Bezos then went on to discuss his plan to ship humans off of the best
> planet in the solar system and send them to live in floating cylinders in
> space.

> Bezos claimed that the growing human population and growing energy
> consumption will force us to make a choice between "stasis and rationing"
> and "dynamism and growth", and claimed that the latter item in his
> dichotomy is possible only by moving humans off the planet.

> "If we're out in the solar system, we can have a trillion humans in the
> solar system, which means we'd have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand
> Einsteins," Bezos said. "This would be an incredible civilization. What
> would this future look like? Where would a trillion humans live? Well it's
> very interesting, someone named Gerry O'Neill, a physics professor, looked
> at this question very carefully and he asked a very precise question that
> nobody had ever asked before, and it was, 'Is a planetary surface the best
> place for humans to expand into the solar system?' And he and his students
> set to work on answering that question, and they came to a very
> surprisingfor themcounterintuitive answer: No."

> Bezos went on to describe how the limited surface areas, distance, and
> gravitational forces of the other planets in our solar system make settling
> on those planets impractical and cost-prohibitive, while constructing giant
> space cylinders closer to Earth which can hold a million people is far more
> practical. These cylinders would spin to replicate Earth's gravitational
> pull with centrifugal force.

> Here are some illustrations Bezos used in his presentation to show us what
> these "O'Neill colonies" might look like:

> "These are really pleasant places to live," Bezos said. "Some of these
> O'Neill colonies might choose to replicate Earth cities. They might pick
> historical cities and mimic them in some way. There'd be whole new types of
> architecture. These are ideal climates. These are short-sleeve
> environments. This is Maui on its best day, no rain, no storms, no
> earthquakes."

> No rain? No weather? Just big, spinning cylinders floating monotonously in
> space? A trillion divided by a million is one million, which means that the
> best idea the richest man in the world can come up with for the future of
> our species is to fill our solar system with a million of these floating
> homogenized space malls.

> "If we build this vision, these O'Neill colonies, where does it take us?
> What does it mean for Earth?" Bezos asked. "Earth ends up zoned,
> residential, and light industry. It'll be a beautiful place to live, it'll
> be a beautiful place to visit, it'll be a beautiful place to go to college,
> and to do some light industry. But heavy industry, polluting industry, all
> the things that are damaging our planet, those will be done off Earth. We
> get to have both. We get to keep this unique gem of a planet, which is
> completely irreplaceablethere is no Plan B. We have to save this planet.
> And we shouldn't give up a future of our grandchildren's grandchildren of
> dynamism and growth. We can have both."

> Now, if you look at the behavior of Jeff Bezos, who exploits his employees
> and destroys his competitors, and who some experts say is trying to take
> over the underlying infrastructure of our entire economy, you can feel
> reasonably confident that this man has no intention of leaving "this unique
> gem of a planet", nor of having the heirs to his empire leave either. When
> you see this Pentagon advisory board member and CIA contractor planning to
> ship humans off the Earth's surface so the planet can thrive, you may be
> certain that he's talking about other humans. The unworthy ones. The ones
> who weren't sociopathic enough to climb the capitalist ladder by stepping
> on the backs of everyone else.

> And make no mistake, when Bezos talks about saving the planet for "our
> grandchildren's grandchildren", he's not just talking about his heirs, he's
> talking about himself. Bezos has invested large amounts of wealth in
> biotech aimed at reversing the aging process and cracking the secret of
> immortality.

> This is the sort of guiding wisdom that is controlling the fate of our
> species, everyone. The world's most ambitious plutocrat envisions a world
> in which, rather than evolving beyond our destructive tendencies and
> learning to live in collaboration with each other and our environment, we
> are simply shipped off into space so that he can stretch out and enjoy our
> beautiful planet. That's his best idea.

> Our plutocratic overlords aren't just sociopaths. They're morons.

> Bezos' incredibly shallow vision for humanity reminds me of something
> Julian Assange said at a 2017 London festival via video link about the way
> Silicon Valley plutocrats are trying to become immortal by finding a way to
> upload their brains onto computers.

> "I know from our sources deep inside those Silicon Valley institutions,
> they genuinely believe that they are going to produce artificial
> intelligences that are so powerful, relatively soon, that people will have
> their brains digitized, uploaded on these artificial intelligences, and
> live forever in a simulation, therefore will have eternal life," Assange
> said. "It's a religion for atheists. They'll have eternal life, and given
> that you're in a simulation, why not program the simulation to have endless
> drug and sex orgy parties all around you. It's like the 72 virgins, but
> it's like the Silicon Valley equivalent."

> I mean, damn. First of all, how stupid do you have to be to overlook the
> fact that science has virtually no understanding of consciousness and
> doesn't even really know what it is? Even if these idiots find a way to
> upload their neurological patternings onto some AI's virtual simulation,
> it's not like they'd be there to experience it. It would just be a bunch of
> data running in a computer somewhere, mimicking the personality of a dead
> person and experienced by no one. People who believe that all there is to
> them is their dopey mental patterns have not spent any time whatsoever
> exploring what they are, and have no idea what it is to be human. The fact
> that anyone would think they could become immortal by digitizing their
> churning, repetitive personality patterns is crazy, and the fact that
> they'd want to is even crazier.

> People who think this way should shut up and learn about life, not rule the
> world in a plutocratic system where money translates directly to political
> influence. People who think that humans can be happily unplugged from the
> ecosystemic context in which they evolved, the ecosystemic context of which
> they are an inseparable part, and people who think they can become immortal
> by uploading their wanky personalities onto a computer should shut the fuck
> up, spend some time alone with themselves, maybe try some psilocybin
> mushrooms, and learn a bit about what it means to be human. They certainly
> shouldn't be calling the shots.

> Earth is our home. It's what we're made for. The earth went through a lot
> to give you life. Sparks had to catch, oceans had to freeze, billions of
> cells had to survive endless disease, all of these amazing things had to
> happen just right to give you life. You belong here. You are as much a
> creation of the earth as the air you breathe. You may feel like a singular
> organism but you're actually as much a singular organism as one of the many
> billions of organisms that make up your body. You and earth are one. And
> because you evolved on earth, you are perfectly adapted to earth and it is
> perfectly adapted to you. It yearns for your breath as you yearn for its
> breeze on your face.

> We absolutely have the ability to transcend our unhealthy tendencies as a
> species which, when you really look at them, are merely creations of a mind
> that feels alone and separate and like it is in a constant fight for its
> life. If we just put down our mental swords for a hot second and learned to
> channel our creativity into the thriving of our society and our ecosystem
> instead of into killing and out-competing one another then we will be okay.
> The way out of this is the way towards health. For example, once women have
> been given back even the most basic rights of sexual sovereignty such as
> birth control and access to terminations as they have in most western
> countries, birth rates fall below replication levels. Women's own internal
> bodily wisdom makes the problem of overpopulation moot if given half a
> chance just to make decisions on behalf of her own body.

> Another example. People lament the lack of jobs due to AI and automation
> but we actually desperately need people to do less. We need a whole lot of
> people doing nothing, not using the roads every morning and evening, not
> producing widgets that no one needs and creating advertising campaigns to
> brainwash people into buying them anyway, just to have them end up in the
> ocean or leaching heavy metals into the earth. Having a whole lot of people
> doing nothing for more of their week would take the strain off of our
> health systems as the single biggest factor in disease is stress. Studies
> show that stress also shrinks your brain and lessens your creativity and
> innovation too, so all the punitive-minded libertarians out there who are
> worried that we won't progress as a species if we start sharing resources
> around to people who aren't doing things that traditionally made money
> because we'll be too relaxed can chill too. We don't need to crack the whip
> to get people to make beautiful innovations. Humans are at their best when
> feeling playful and relaxed. Nearly all the technological advances of the
> past came from people who had a lot of leisure time due to their privileged
> status. Releasing
> humans from 9 to 5 slavery would be the fastest way to slow our resource
> consumption and take pressure off of all our systems and would have the
> added benefit of making us smarter, funnier, more creative and more
> innovative too.

> And for that matter, having every idea and innovation be required to make
> money is also killing us. We need the ability to fund things that will not
> make profit. How many times have you been in a conversation and someone's
> come up with an idea that will solve a major environmental, energy or
> health problem and no one's got excited because it will never get off the
> ground because it will never make money? Fully disappearing a problem never
> made anyone any money. Healthy people, for example, never spend a dime at
> the doctors. The way out of this is detaching human innovation from money
> and allowing solutions to flourish without the imposition of also having to
> turn a profit.

> These are merely three things I can think of that will dramatically improve
> our collective ability to reverse this extinction event and all we have to
> do is get saner, stop punishing each other, start sharing and start
> collaborating. The only issue we have as humans is that a handful of highly
> competitive, highly sociopathic and yet incredibly mediocre people have all
> the power to build our future for us with virtually no input from anyone
> else. Because all the power in the form of all the money has been allowed
> to pool into the hands of those most willing to do whatever it takes to get
> it, we have just a few ruthless yet surprisingly dumb individuals calling
> the shots on the future of all living beings. The competitive mindset that
> gave rise to Jeff Bezos is the exact opposite of the kind of collaborative,
> harmonious mindset we'll need if we're going to overcome the challenges we
> face on the horizon.

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