Comments on: Play the Decline

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 01:48:48 +0000

We sort of got into the doomsday stuff here.

By: R.

R. — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:52:19 +0000

That being in power-thus-being-right worked out great for Stalin, especially where kulaks & collective farming was concerned..

Trying to make something so won’t work if your ideas are crap.

Reality doesn’t care about who’s ‘right’ and who is not.

By: R.

R. — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:49:38 +0000

You can bet that in the end you'll be fighting for Mom and Apple Pie or whatever it is that right-minded Americans fight for.. At least, every Cod so far was that way.

By: R.

R. — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:46:35 +0000

Except it makes no sense at all.

Militaries are exceptionally expensive. Mercenaries even more, as fighting is risky…
And building an effective army takes decades. What kind of company would spend trillions of $ to fund the creation of an army? What would be the business model there?

Waging war ceased to be profitable.. not sure when, but probably in the 17th century.

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Outside in - Involvements with reality » Blog Archive » NRx: The Call — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:33:24 +0000

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By: Blogospheroid

Blogospheroid — Mon, 05 May 2014 06:34:16 +0000

So, do the players of the game play in his army or against his army for the US or have the option to do both at different times?

By: Extinction

Extinction — Mon, 05 May 2014 05:15:23 +0000

@Amon Khan – there are times when I think we’re on the cusp of a precipitous descent into hell and the shit is about to get real—but the timeframe is relative and things could unravel over decades or centuries. I see one of the most significant threats in our exploration/exploitation of ever more diffuse sources of hydrocarbons. Scientifically/thermodynamically inept Cathedralist economists love to tout horizontal drilling/multistage fracking as the Holy Grail to our energy woes—completely neglecting to realize that the game is becoming somewhat analogous to mining ultra low concentrations of gold from the worlds oceans. Increasing entropy [more and more diffuse energy deposits] will manifest itself in our economic system becoming less and less efficient. There’s no doubt that we’ll be squeezed through a tight population bottleneck sometime this century. Things are already getting interesting on so many different fronts.

@admin – thanks for the link. Looking forward to your statistical ontological speculations on the Doomsday Hypothesis!

By: JPOutlook

JPOutlook — Mon, 05 May 2014 03:26:31 +0000

Interesting ideas being floated.

By: Konkvistador

Konkvistador — Sun, 04 May 2014 17:25:51 +0000

http://youtu.be/ClSGyJeLcj0

“Ideas don’t determine who is right. Power determines who is right. And I have the power. So I am right.”

Darkly Enlightened

By: Konkvistador

Konkvistador — Sun, 04 May 2014 16:32:00 +0000

Watching the trailer it is not so subtly implied he isn’t talking about the third world, he is also talking about America. And he is going to do something about it. He is going to step in and provide good governance, starting quite rationally with explosions in San Francisco.

Fromw Wikipedia
“The year is 2054, and the world has suffered an attack on its militaries around the world. The largest military force in the world isn’t a country, but a corporation. Jonathan Irons (Kevin Spacey) is the leader and founder of Atlas, the largest private military firm in the world. Irons begins a war with America over his beliefs that the U.S., for over a century, has failed numerous attempts to install democracies all over the world.”

He is of course right and good and considered the villain.