Comments by "Alan hat" (@alanhat5252) on "Astrum" channel.

  1.  @bluupadoop  there are 8 billion of us, I'm sure that with a little teamwork we can do at least limited multitasking.
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  2. In England in 1381 the people discovered that the Government had introduced a (tax) problem so the people went to London to ask that the problem be resolved. Government refused so the people lynched a few parliamentarians & asked again. This process was repeated a few times but eventually the Government made the problem go away. The people of Belgium invented "defenestration" (look it up, especially if you're in government) to deal with government problems they had. I expect most countries have resolved problems in similar ways. Again we have problems that governments are not resolving...
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  3.  @zerotolerance4u  the evidence is there for all to see.
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  4. You neglect that we have allowed ourselves to be controlled by con merchants & bullies, the connotations of this define our society & the materials it uses. Let's start with some fundamentals; It's easy to declare ownership over & defend a mine so it's an obvious resource for a bullying mindset, less obvious for a cooperative mindset. Anyone can make charcoal - chop a tree into small pieces, wait a few months for most of the water to evaporate, bury it then set fire to it - hey presto - charcoal, an excellent material for a collective mindset (there is skill to it but that's the principle). Coke, similarly, is part-burnt coal & was a requirement for producing steel. Coal is an easily-owned resource because it's mined so iron & steel are more suited to a controlling mindset. Fossil fuels are compost. Compressed & baked compost. It's not necessary to mine it, just that mines are easy to claim ownership over & defend. For most current purposes it doesn't need to be compressed or baked either. (Yes you can blend grass clippings, sawdust & kitchen waste to use as the feedstock for an existing oil refinery, it naturally gives off methane while it's in the queue waiting to be processed). In the "Western World" we have been conned into ridiculing & ostracising the intelligent & the lateral thinkers so they band together ready to be corralled & controlled by con merchants. Copper can be & is alloyed with a wide range of metals other than tin, nickel for instance produces a material harder & tougher than a tin alloy & is magnetic, a copper-zinc alloy gives brass. Several of these bronzes are harder & more durable than iron or mild steel. Several aluminium alloys are superior to steel in many applications (Maybach's innovation to get internal combustion engines working in cars was an aluminium alloy piston). Iron & steel were not necessary precursors to the industrial age but the technologies required to produce them were, like mines, easy to claim ownership over & defend & promote so the richest & most controlling men in the world became richer by selling us something we didn't strictly need. I hope you can see that Western civilization is built on domination & control, on promoting the individual over the collective, over the planet, & we are now reaping the reward of destroying the planet that sustains our very existence. Building the next society in the mould of the current one is neither necessary nor clever.
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  5. The "existential threat" is not to humans (we can & do move) the threat is to human civilization, all human civilization. Without civilization we're back before the Stone Age, hunter-gatherers again.
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