Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "If You Mean Savages Then Just Say So" video.

  1. "If the global north disappears, the global economy disappears" Well, the global security apparatus (namely, the US Navy) disappears. The Europeans try to do their part around the Horn of Africa, bless their hearts, but if the US Navy were not out there, container ships would not happen, and the global economy would grind to a halt.
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  2. "If you don't come from this background you're insanely distrusted by those in power" You're getting very close to the actual problem with today's society, and what the new Cold War (Red Scare etc) is really going to be about. How to maximize the production and distribution of material wealth that the Industrial Revolution gave us, led to the first Cold War - Capitalism vs. Communism. After a great deal of trial and error, we settled on the market-economic welfare state. (Seriously, point to a major country in the world that doesn't implement both of these to a great degree.) How to maximize the production and distribution of expertise that the Information Revolution gave us, will lead to a new Cold War -- Authoritarian Bureaucracy vs. Liberty-minded Democracy. Is the production and dissemination of knowledge / expertise going to be centrally controlled (the authoritarian bureaucracy, "technocracy", credentialism), or will information technology allow it be distributed throughout the population (citizen journalists, memes, elections, liberty, revival of traditional wisdom, individual initiative and dedication)? As far as I'm concerned it's not hard to tell who the good guys are and who the bad guys are here, but then, I'm against totalitarianism because I've seen the consequences.
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