There’s a scene from the 1960 film version of The Time Machine that has been haunting my dreams of late.
In the film, the Time Traveller (Rod Taylor) has traveled almost a million years into the future, expecting that when he arrived he would find an advanced civilisation marked by the pursuit of learning. Instead, he finds the Eloi, a race of simple creatures in togas who are bred like cattle, and eaten, by the subterranean Morlocks.
In the film’s most harrowing scene, he’s taken by one of the Eloi to a centuries-old library housing the last books in existence, which crumble to dust in his hands.
“What have you done?” the Time Traveller demands, as the dreams of centuries turn to ash. “Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating! A million years, the sensitive men dying for their dreams, for what? So you can swim, and dance, and play.”
In the last couple weeks I see a lot of men on this platform arguing with a straight face that we should let AI generate our writing for us, that it’s the future, that there’s no fighting it. And I need you all to know that THIS is the ultimate end of a world in which everyone has machines write for them. There will be no more thinking, no more creative expression, no more art or literature. It’s what C. S. Lewis called “the abolition of man.” We will be no different from cattle and our libraries will turn to dust.
When ease and entertainment become the highest good, it’s not shocking that people will find clever ways to avoid work and study. But nor should it be surprising when the ultimate fate of the Eloi becomes our own.
SHOCKING �� 🇹🇷Turkey & Saudi Arabia Just Found a Way to DITCH the Strait of Hormuz FOREVER!
🇮🇱Israel is getting pushed out of the picture…
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia just signed a HUGE deal with 🇹🇷Turkey to AGGRESSIVELY build a massive new railway that connects them through Syria, Jordan, and Oman!
Goods, oil, and trade will now go over land straight from the Gulf to Turkey and Europe!
This changes EVERYTHING! 🔥
Say goodbye to the @whitesox folks. They were already looking at Nashville but the smart play has always been becoming the Indiana Team! The can move right over the border, be just as close to their fanbase and start sucking up mLB fans from Indianapolis without really losing the fanbase they already have.
After the Bears and Sox go -you have that ‘suncoke’ property near Gary Airport who can be kicked out in 2033 and Gary Airport can expand into that. Then O’Hare starts to lose business.
This is the beginning of a financial realignment of the Chicago metropolitan area. It will take 20-30 years but it’s happening
🚨 BOMBSHELL! Fox News confirms Trump depleted the US missile inventory. It takes 3 years to replace THAAD and Patriot systems wasted on Iran.
Rep. Issa admits the US would face a massive disaster against China or Russia. Total strategic collapse!
President Putin’s AURUS state limousines sweep through the streets of BEIJING just hours before a visit described as “historic.
Tomorrow… VLADIMIR PUTIN arrives in the Chinese capital at the head of a massive delegation of senior officials and business leaders, for a highly anticipated summit with XI JINPING that could reshape global power dynamics.
According to Moscow, the two leaders will announce a joint vision for a “multipolar world” and a new framework for international relations, alongside the signing of around 40 strategic agreements between RUSSIA and CHINA.
BREAKING: The Texas televangelist who claimed God is using the Iran War to begin the Biblical Apocalypse and Rapture up all the Christians to Heaven on Trump's birthday this June 14th because Trump is the "2nd Messiah" just got arrested for cooking meth in his church basement.
Wanna know what’s absolutely batshit INSANE?
“Hantavirus” is listed as a reported possible ADVERSE EVENT after getting the Pfizer COVID jab.
No, I’m not joking.
Wanna know what’s absolutely batshit INSANE?
“Hantavirus” is listed as a reported possible ADVERSE EVENT after getting the Pfizer COVID jab.
No, I’m not joking.
JAMIE DIMON JUST BURIED HIS OWN INDUSTRY. 🚨
"Crypto is better than the current financial system."
The CEO of JP Morgan.
Said that out loud.
The same bank that called Bitcoin a fraud in 2017.
The same CEO who threatened to fire employees for buying it.
Just admitted crypto won.
The experiment is over.
Dimon against crypto. For years.
JP Morgan building crypto infrastructure. Quietly.
Dimon now saying it's better than traditional finance.
The most expensive U-turn in banking history.
NEW: The 11 dead or missing U.S. scientists are now being viewed as a "NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT."
“It does appear that there’s a high possibility that something sinister is taking place here,” House Oversight Chair James Comer tells Fox.
"Congress is very concerned about this. Our committee is making this one of our priorities now because we view this as a national security threat."
Kash Patel: KABOOM 💥
“We found rooms they hid from the world— We’ve got ALL the evidence we need— we are going to be making arrests all, and I promise you, it’s coming soon.”
ARREST THEM ALL FOR TREASON!
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