Mr. X from Planet X

I watched Alex Jones End Game, and thought he was up in the night. The International Bankers conspiring with the UN to kill off 80% of the world’s population? Preposterous.

I had reasoned as in Freakonomics, population growth hurts the poor. Just as more money in circulation dilutes the value of the dollar (the Inflation Tax), the more people we have the cheaper the labor. This benefits the rich.  This is why the U.S. government won’t crack down on illegal immigration.

Then I read the creepiest tech article I have ever read in my life Why the future doesn’t need us by Bill Joy.

Bill Joys credentials are pretty impressive:

Cofounder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, was cochair of the presidential commission on the future of IT research, and is coauthor of The Java Language Specification. His work on the Jini pervasive computing technology was featured in Wired 6.08.

According to Bill Joy what many of us would call “The Matrix” is theoretically going to happen.

There are many points covered in Bill Joy’s article. One of the most shocking excerpts from the article is what Bill Joy has to say about Theodore Kaczynski. That’s right–the Unabomber.

Kaczynski’s actions were murderous and, in my view, criminally insane. He is clearly a Luddite, but simply saying this does not dismiss his argument; as difficult as it is for me to acknowledge, I saw some merit in the reasoning in this single passage. I felt compelled to confront it.

. . . (We’re lucky Kaczynski was a mathematician, not a molecular biologist.)

It appears Kaczynski was a mathematician trying to blow up scientists. Scientists he thought were going to bring an end to mankind as we know it. I never knew that’s what his motive was, or that he was a mathematician.

It reminds me of the Terminator where they are trying to take out the scientist before he can create the technology that’s going to enable them to create the terminator.

I still don’t believe Charles Darwin was part of a eugenics conspiracy

Again the article covers many points on men and science leading to the demise of mankind. Another issue Bill Joy looks at is nuclear weapons. Specifically the Manhattan Project and the Trinity Test.

Atomic Cafe film clip

The Day After Trinity film clip

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