Re: SETI and The Fermi Paradox

On Sep 18, 5:46�pm, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:


Once the ruling elites realize there is no escape from this planet, your
pandemic will be realized as they self-induce it upon the masses to lower
the numbers by a huge amount, eliminating the load on what's left and
reducing their opposition problems to zero.

I'm very lucky to be near the end of my life, reassured it will happen
after I'm dead. �I'm 63. �Every time I see a tiny child I wonder if he/she
will escape the axe.

I'm very afraid you are right, Larry. Probably (a conservative) 90% of
the jobs on this planet are just pushing money around the system for
the elite. As such, those doing these jobs have no real purpose except
to act as intermediary, or idler, cogs. They will all die (or retire )
anyway so the elite will see them as merely disposable. For all the
good most people are doing on this planet they might as well not
exist. Consumerism isn't a reason for living. It is an excuse for not
doing something useful. You commute to "a place of work" where you do
nothing useful to earn enough to buy trinkets to decorate a dormitory
you never really own. You spend most of your time in residence fast
asleep or watching piped entertainment aimed squarely at the mentally
retarded. Your car is only a means of transport to get you to your
useless place of work but you invest all your empty ego and status in
its appearance. When it really is only a tool to fulfill your
employer's need for you to turn up on time to play let's pretend  "the
work" has any real purpose. If your management decides greater profits
can be made for their rich shareholders, by outsourcing to China or
Eastern Europe, then your "vitally important work" becomes disposable
overnight. Along with you! Bye-by loser!

Now the system demands that you be stressed into seeking "paid work"
elsewhere. You didn't ask to be sacked despite your 25 years of loyal
service to "Your Workplace". Don't expect respect or sympathy from
some jumped-up little Hitler who has been programmed to make your life
abject misery unless you get new "work" when there is absolutely none
to be found. The elite can't have you sponging off the system even if
you have dutifully paid your taxes for decades and contributed to your
pension fund. If you were seen to be enjoying unemployment in
reasonable comfort then all the other useless cogs in the money
circulating system would begin to question why they are taking shit
from some other jumped-up little Hitler in their own "Workplace".  If
the system collapses then anarchy will follow. A war is a very good
way to undermine the rising unemployment figures. To get them all
signed up to go off and kill innocent civilians elsewhere. Rather than
becoming angry young men at home. They might turn to crime! Which is
normally a very good business to keep lots of otherwise useless
members of society employed in doing nothing worthwhile but fighting
the inevitable and the totally overwhelming on a deliberately limited
budget.

Without a job you can't buy an already rusting, new car. Or fill your
home with the "essential" detritus to replace the crap which is
deliberately designed not to last too long. Public transport has been
run down as much as the elite will dare to ensure everybody needs a
car to get around to the deliberately placed out-of-town shopping
malls and far flung industrial estates. Pensioners are only starved of
funds to ensure they don't enjoy life too much and give the idler cogs
ideas about joining them in their apparent freedom during daylight
hours.

The system rules are endless and they are all designed to ensure
compliance with the great plan: Keep everybody busy doing something
completely useless during daylight hours. So they are tired enough to
put up with mass-produced entertainment while not physically "at
work". Why else would cheaper products be crap unless it was
deliberately intended to keep the lower paid at the grindstone? Only
ever earning enough to replace their essential crap at ever-shorter
intervals. Only to expire early, themselves, through long decades of
stress, poor health care and overwork?

The wonder of the system is that it is largely self-regulating by
those who actually participate in it. The elite only have to lie back
and enjoy the proceeds. The SS, the Gestapo, the secret police, the
police, the prison service, the judges and the social security workers
are all programmed to ensure compliance with the central directive.
And all, totally regardless of the political system in power locally.
So next time you are feeling important,  essential and irreplaceable
"at work" don't look down on those lower in "the system". Or those who
have fallen right out of the bottom through no fault of their own.
Tomorrow could be the very first day of your real life. Then see how
well the "work skills" you have acquired serve you in survival of the
fittest. If you do find your CV lacking then you had better have
something else to barter with! Are you feeling lucky, punks? ;-)