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Le miroir idéologique

Sep 18, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel

Dans son dernier livre intitulé Doppelganger, l’essayiste et militante de gauche Naomi Klein plonge dans cet étrange mélange de polarisation politique, de réalités contestées et de réseaux sociaux qui caractérise l’époque actuelle. Arpentant ce « monde miroir » fait de théories conspirationnistes et de propagande d’extrême droite en ligne, elle formule un point de vue unique sur la dystopie numérique dans laquelle nous évoluons aujourd'hui.

Le titre Doppelganger (le sosie, le double) est une allusion à Naomi Wolf, auteure féministe devenue théoricienne conspirationniste, avec laquelle Klein est souvent confondue. Durant la pandémie de COVID-19, Wolf s’est démarquée en tant que fervente défenseuse des antivaccins, apparaissant fréquemment sur des plateformes d’extrême droite, et prétendant que les mesures de santé publique faisaient partie d’un complot mondial insidieux. En juxtaposant sa propre trajectoire à celle de Wolf, Klein démontre un niveau de conscience de soi qui n’apparaissait pas de manière évidente dans ses précédents ouvrages, formulant une critique franche de l’image personnelle qu’elle a cultivée au fil des années.

Professeure de justice climatique à l’Université de Colombie-Britannique, Klein est une auteure à succès prolifique et enviable. Ses best-sellers autour de problématiques telles que la menace du changement climatique, le rôle excessif de l’argent dans la politique aux États-Unis, ou encore la décision catastrophique du président américain George W. Bush d’envahir l’Irak, résonnent généralement dans l’esprit de ses lecteurs principalement libéraux.

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Robert Wolff Sep 20, 2023

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Society: Types, Subtypes, Categories, Spatiality and Hierarchies

In the Middle Ages, individual humans were classified as Workers, Fighters or “Those who Pray” (3 subtypes).

In the modern world, more descriptive categories would be Workers, Fighters and Politicians (still 3 subtypes) ; i.e., those who pray (motivate and influence such as Politicians and Religious leaders) would all be scientifically classified as Politicians.

Among the ants and bees, in category theory, there are workers, soldiers, drones and queens (4 subtypes), so the classifications of humans in their social roles are actually smaller in numbers of categories than ants and bees. Among praying Mantises and Black Widow spiders and nonsocial insects, the classifications are even less numerous: they are either males or females.

Under successful human bureaucratic systems, (e.g., caste systems or bureaucratic delineation of workers into “jobs” or “professions”) the number of categories of sub-subtypes flowers into many specific job descriptions; but there are still only 3 primary (highest hierarchical level split) subtypes or categories of humans: Workers, Fighters and Politicians.

In the human brain, which spatially separates all categories across the geographic area of the brain, there are actually thousands of possible categories, but our brains are not hierarchically oriented, i.e., these many categories into which our memories organize themselves spatially, are not organized into hierarchies, but rather those categories that are closely allied (hierarchically) are only [across the brain’s topology] geographically located “near” those other categories that organize them hierarchically so that they can more quickly communicate.

This is why, hierarchically, the geopolitical space across the World was heavily dependent on geographic “nearness” to hierarchical authorities, before mass instant communications.

The conclusion of the above facts clearly indicates that world geopolitics largely evolved identically to the spatial geography of our brains.

There will come a time when “Geopolitical Communications” among peoples, separated geographically, will disrupt the geospatial structure of our human brains’ category systems, and make us subservient to computer-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms that are not so dependent on Individual Humans’ geographical locations, but on a more specific hierarchical organization that only computers can be implemented to control.

This does not mean that “We Humans will become extinct” as the current Gods of AI are predicting, only that we will become entirely dependent on computers for a “Higher form of Intelligence” than our Human brains (with their inflexible geospatial structures) will be able to muster.

https://archive.org/details/cattheory
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Robert Wolff Sep 19, 2023

I am afraid that even Centrism and G20 Dominance and “The Third Way” will eventually not work out for America and the “Democratic Free World”:

I think, ala the author's predictions, I should probably give up even on Rationalism and Centrism. They are too weak in their ideological framework to have any American Populist appeal. American hate Realism but they are aware it is operative in the world today.

As Confucius said 2500 years ago, “Once the Elites have power, they will never give it up.” (They are not suicidal when challenged, only become murderous against who want to take their power from them). This lends a lot of credit to Karl Marx’s and Josef Stalin’s beliefs that “It is possible that Capitalism, controlled by Plutocratic Elites, could evolve peacefully into Democratic Socialism, but extremely unlikely”.

Germany under Hitler fomented a violent revolution against Capitalism during the Great Depression (in which Germany was hit the worst (with over 30% unemployment); and of course the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 against Czar Nicholas who claimed, “I rule all Russia” was violent for the same reason Confucius claimed: “The Elites in power will not give up their power except by a successful violent revolution against them” (Karl Marx’s contention against the Hegelian Theory of “Synthesis”).

Supporting all the totality of the above-mentioned theories, Mitt Romney, living like a hermit in D.C, upon his announced retirement yesterday, said: “The Senators he knew would ‘Kill themselves’ rather than give up their power and influence”. He was given a freezer full of salmon by Alaska’s Senator Murkowski, and he hated salmon but slathered it with mustard and put it between two pieces of bread in a sandwich and ate it anyway. He was alone living on salmon steaks in his hermitage in D.C. (his wife stayed in Utah), even though he much preferred meat and potatoes.

It is likely that the 2024 General Election in America between Biden and Trump will be the last chance for Electoral Democracy to determine who is in power over America (the Plutocratic Elites or “The People”). Donald Trump is totally correct in this same prediction, which is why he is still politically viable as the next American President.

All the above arguments are the precise reasons why the Elite Capitalists who rule America are unlikely to accept Democratic Socialism and why Republicans are still supporting the very wealthy 1% Elites who own America, to which the Republican Party is subservient, and why the 2024 General Election in America will likely be our last “Democratic Election”. As the former Colorado female senator said after her retirement, “By the time you get to Washington you are all bought and paid for.” (There is no Democracy in America, only Plutocratic Rule, ala Republicanism).

The great anomaly in Donald Trump’s campaign that I can still not figure out is that his platform largely condemns the rise of American Socialism – I suppose because he wants to draw in the Ruling Capitalist Elites to support him with that policy stance – but he still believes the failing American working class in America will be sucked in by his propaganda that they are the fools of Neoliberalism (American-Dominated International Capitalism), at the same time he wants to continue to reduce taxes on the rich and “Starve the US Government” tax base, which would allow Socialists to carry out the Democratic Centrist Policy to redistribute the wealth of the US Neoliberalist Elites that already own more of America than the 60% Middle Class – and are becoming richer and more economically dominant by the minute.

I can only surmise, given this “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” that Donald Trump has so confused his supporters, by saying “I am the only one who can save America from Hell”, that he has led Working Class Americans into his fatal propaganda trap.

"Pity the Fool."
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Adolfo Villanueva Sep 18, 2023

Considering these last two paragraphs, it’s very clear that Republicans use the crisis to benefit the wealthy, while Democrats use them to benefit general population. Presenting them as equivalent looks grossly unfair
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