Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Trump Coup Lawyer Caught on Hidden Camera" video.

@BlankBrain To you the Earl of Doncaster and others. Do you realise that this issue of both sides of politics being corrupted by corporations is NOT just an American issue? I'm Australian but went to college in America. We have the same problem here just not to the same extent. I was working in Canada in 2017 and its the same there, but more like Australia than America. We get a lot of British and European News down here and we see the same there as well. The entire Western World is moving from being a lose collection of democracies linked by trade and common social values into an interlinked set of plutocracies. Just wondering if you guys are aware that the rest of Western Society might not be as far down the path as America but we are going down the same path?
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@BlankBrain Good points. If you have a look at events like the American, French and Russian revolutions they were all very different in specific ways and incredibly common in others. In common they were all fundamentally leftist in that they confronted an established entrenched elite power that simply pushed their society until it broke. What worries me these days is that the reset you talk about might be a peasant revolution rather than just an economic reset like the Great Depression. The problem with peasant revolutions is that they are born from frustration and deprivation and they result in a actions that are incredibly destructive. Right before the French Revolution the French lead the world in Science and Technology much like America was positioned by the mid 80s. Then overnight they just snapped and started killing anything wearing decent clothes. If you look at America right now it is eerily similar to pre-Revolution France. It has a an elite hyper wealthy class who have that "let them eat cake" attitude as well as an elite techno class. I'm an engineer and I can tell you the AI issue is all BS. Unless they make Quantum computing work AI wont be possible because there's just no way to process the data in the way needed. Most of what they call AI now is nothing close to intelligence. What they have are algorithms that mimic human tasks or how a human might do a specific task. The thing that scares me more than anything right now are people believing the hype and allowing algorithms to operate without anyone knowing what they are doing minute by minute. There is a horrible Sheldon Cooper style arrogance among too many in the STEM community that think the rest of us are monkeys to be managed. They might not be wrong in some cases but do you think it would be wise to let a pack of hyper techno geeks control our lives. Look at the shite they have already done. Imagine if we gave them real power?
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