tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post572524782032462341..comments2024-03-28T18:11:29.865-04:00Comments on UNDERNEWS: GOP: The Second ConfederacyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-32398364339728507752015-11-10T00:45:35.866-05:002015-11-10T00:45:35.866-05:00The South won the civil war in 1876. But after WWI...The South won the civil war in 1876. But after WWII the US is just a pit crew for global and outer space conquest. Although Britain gave birth to US imperialism, today's dominant cultural traits were mostly diffused from German fascism and rocket science. Defeating fascism in WWII, like defeating the Confederacy, became a source of apology. The US interprets those two wars as ending antisemitism and slavery respectively. Taboos prevent further examination. <br />Robotic capitalism may have no use for human labor or the masters of the 1%, making a mockery of any human conceit of mastery. 1984 arrived in the US during the Reagan era, perhaps also 2001 arrived with the victory of HAL. The logic of technology became more powerful than any human ability to prevent the obsolescence of the species in an environment increasingly hostile to flora and fauna. Capitalism will have little use for earthlings in its project of colonization of planets hostile to life. Sanders gives a final argument for socialist human worth with the end of society within sight in the next century as a Pottersville of robots better adapted also to conditions on Mars and the Moon.<br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com