20th July 2006 | Uncompleted
Decorating Pigeon Coops and Animal Farms
Evisceration of values in a global Potemkin society
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A terrifying possibility
That, to some degree at least, declarations of core values (cited as exemplary achievements of humanity, and the welcome fruit of its development):
- either, were deliberately implemented in the first place simply as decoration to pacify and distract the hopeful
- or, have subsequently been eviscerated and hollowed out to create an admirable shell evocative of hope
That, this has been accomplished or largely enabled:
- as the consequence of an unconscious collective dynamic
- through deliberate cynical exploitation of gullibility and natural optimism
That this process has been disguised by:
- a powerful dynamic protective of hopefullness that ensures avoidance of exposure to problematic perspectives
- condemnation, and marginalization as highly problematic, the "cognitive whistleblowers" that seek to draw attention to the possibility
That the consequence is sustainable:
- through the actions of the powerful in their use of the media and "culling" out the more recalictrant
- through exploitation of human ambiguity in resonating with exemplary human values in principle whilst indulging in their subversion in practice
Design thought experiment
There is an instructive thought experiment to be perfomed. On the assumption that there is some truth to the above possibility, what might be the strategic design elements required to render it operational?
Having endeavoured to design the outcome envisaged, the experimental question is whether an implementation of such a design would be detectable -- or whether the design itself would ensure that either it was not or that any such possibility
Permanent Members of the Security Council
- Blair
- Bush
- Chirac
- China
- Putin
Convictions and sleaze
Sounding brass and faith-based governance
empty people
empty - mind complementary
cooping people up within cognitive cages
dyson sphere
Inability of those in power to prove that they are not lying
Conspiracy theories
Le Chatelier
AI Projectiles capable of detecting and judging targets -- prior to their execution
Potemkin
vampires
cor -- origins
Facade Corps
Dennis Hans. Powell the Star of Bush's "Façade Corps" Democratic Underground, 10 March 2004
premature cognitive closure
References
Armageddon
Vampires
Potemkin
Plastic turkey
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