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Now that Ukraine doesn’t seem to be working out as hoped, and the war in Gaza appears to be going nowhere violently, there are the first voices calling for a “solution,” for “negotiations,” for “cease-fires” and “armistices,” and perhaps other clever initiatives that I have missed. Meanwhile, efforts continue around the world in Ethiopia, in Myanmar, in Sudan, in West Africa generally, in Mali and in half a dozen other places, to find “a solution.” But supposing there isn’t a solution?

Or rather, consider that the whole edifice of crisis management and resolution which was put in place since the end of the Cold War, with its cool normative Liberal design language, and has now had thirty years to prove itself, essentially hasn’t delivered. Trivially, this may be because the ideas behind it were wrong—which they were—but at a more profound level, it may be because many of the problems of the world have no solution anyway, or at least nothing that we in the West would agree to call a “solution.” Let’s look at that point in more detail.

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We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world was turning
...

Conflict is part of our nature. And this is the reason why the right to bear arms shall not be infringed.
 
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world was turning
...

Conflict is part of our nature. And this is the reason why the right to bear arms shall not be infringed.
That, in my humble opinion, is what Transhumanism is ABOUT.

Klaus, the demigod visionary, is going to REMOVE the Fight gene, and the God gene, so that we're happy when we have nothing and they own it all.

Klaus thinks that will make the world a paradise. At least for the Davos Supper Club.

What Klaus doesn't understand, is that human progress - that unseen force that gives him Gulf Stream jets, kobe beef, and blond Swedish preteen girls - all this prosperity and advancement comes from STRIFE, otherwise known as AMBITION. The driving force.

Sheep didn't invent the wheel. Neither did sated tropical tribesmen who danced around with penis gourds. Hungry European men, developed better ways to hunt, better ways to carry it home, and better ways to keep their children safe...and what came of it was, mechanized travel, electricity, technological farming, and computer networks.

Take away the drive and motivation, and we just sit there, eating our bugs, while the whole infrastructure slowly collapses.
 
I remember a bumper sticker from the Vietman war time.

War is good business, invest your son.

Basically "war" is good business......
 
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