@rationalaussie Don't argue with you about where we're heading, but people find purpose in retirement, why not post AGI? Many still try to excel at chess post Deep Blue. And so on
In Europe, in the 1960s and 1970s, we started importing slaves and have not stopped doing so to this day. The floodgates were opened once and never closed again. A huge industry has developed to bring ever more and more slaves to us, who bring no economic benefit because they are and always will be net recipients.
But they bring a profoundly political benefit. Combine this with easy naturalization and voilà, you create a never-ending influx of new voters.
Then divide society further and further, let trust sink, let cohesion erode, and ban every party you dislike. Then introduce hate speech laws, let truth become a lie, make it a risk to express your opinion. Make it impossible for people to communicate with their neighbors because no one speaks your language, and raise taxes year after year until the levies finally reach one hundred percent. Then soften the youth, make them gay and girlish. Take masculinity away from men so that women must turn to the state for the protection they so long for. Do all of this and cement your power for all eternity. The consequences are erosion, collapse, and conquest also by the slaves you once brought in.
Or as Jung put it: Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course unwittingly, a slave. Because living constantly in the atmosphere of slaves, he became infected through the unconscious with their psychology. No one can shield himself from such an influence.
@gen_enhazed Very nice here. Can't decide if I like the Paki or the Afghan more as my neighbor. Rule of thumb here is to stay 150 km from every bigger town to go a day without seeing a thirdworlder.
@SaysSimulation Not really true. In Europe, nobody is aware that US citizens are dying for them, as they see every US war as bad and never justified. It's like a leftwing 16year old calling the police fashist pigs without the slightest idea what life without them would mean.