25-02-2016, 10:08 AM
Thanks for that Lauren. Yes, it was Lone Gunmen I was thinking of.
The Jay Dyer read was interesting too. I was a little surprised he didn't include on his list the subject of humanoid robots. Because speaking bluntly, fuck the off-world hypothesis, the on-world growing reality of robots replacing humans in the work place strike me as a far more significant - and even sinister - development.
According to Oxford University, almost 50% of jobs in all industrialized nations will be at risk from automatons. The danger with that, of course - assuming it turns out to be true - is who needs a very large population of... what Kissinger is credited with saying "useless eaters" (although i can't see that he ever did). I rather suspect this is an urban legend that grew out of Kissinger's 1974 document NSSM 200 that was focused on world food supplies and population figures.
And since we're on the wild side here, the thought that 50% of the industrialized nations jobs being done by robots must raise concerns. The film ex-Machina also speaks to this matter. If this ever comes about and assuming the world we live in remains much the way it is economically, where recently Oxfam calculated that the richest 85 people in the world have as much wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion - then I don't see those 85 people handing around their wealth to save the starving.
In the last analysis, I wonder if series like the X Files are made in order to gather feedback on wargaming ideas? Just a thought really.
The Jay Dyer read was interesting too. I was a little surprised he didn't include on his list the subject of humanoid robots. Because speaking bluntly, fuck the off-world hypothesis, the on-world growing reality of robots replacing humans in the work place strike me as a far more significant - and even sinister - development.
According to Oxford University, almost 50% of jobs in all industrialized nations will be at risk from automatons. The danger with that, of course - assuming it turns out to be true - is who needs a very large population of... what Kissinger is credited with saying "useless eaters" (although i can't see that he ever did). I rather suspect this is an urban legend that grew out of Kissinger's 1974 document NSSM 200 that was focused on world food supplies and population figures.
And since we're on the wild side here, the thought that 50% of the industrialized nations jobs being done by robots must raise concerns. The film ex-Machina also speaks to this matter. If this ever comes about and assuming the world we live in remains much the way it is economically, where recently Oxfam calculated that the richest 85 people in the world have as much wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion - then I don't see those 85 people handing around their wealth to save the starving.
In the last analysis, I wonder if series like the X Files are made in order to gather feedback on wargaming ideas? Just a thought really.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14