I see the current situation between titanic superpowers as something at the most fundamental planes of conscious existence. A metaphysical battle between fear and love.
If love wins, we can look forward to a new arms race: East and West as friends, happily competing with each other in improving the world, alleviating poverty and ignorance, greening the planet. Helping the people of the world. A beautiful thing. Heaven on Earth.
But if fear wins, it will lead to total polarization and mistrust until nuclear hair triggers are tripped, maybe by a flock of seagulls near an arctic radar, maybe by an overeager AI in Mountain View or Beijing. And what would that look like?
There was a recent study on the effects of a little nuclear war between Pakistan and India. It was not entirely pleasant.
Now imagine an all-out nuclear conflict between the West and a Russia-China alliance.
Worldwide firestorms, darkness, freezing desolation and slow death.
Hell on Earth. The End.
--- When I saw that boy, I thought I'd died, and he, he was an angel. I had a boy one time. Of my own. I never thought I'd see a child again. I never thought that would happen to me.
Loved going to see old Jock Hutchison at Palnackie back in the 90s.
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I just read some recent wisdom from Henry Kissinger in the South China Morning Post:
War between East and West would be bad. Very bad.
I see the current situation between titanic superpowers as something at the most fundamental planes of conscious existence. A metaphysical battle between fear and love.
If love wins, we can look forward to a new arms race: East and West as friends, happily competing with each other in improving the world, alleviating poverty and ignorance, greening the planet. Helping the people of the world. A beautiful thing. Heaven on Earth.
But if fear wins, it will lead to total polarization and mistrust until nuclear hair triggers are tripped, maybe by a flock of seagulls near an arctic radar, maybe by an overeager AI in Mountain View or Beijing. And what would that look like?
There was a recent study on the effects of a little nuclear war between Pakistan and India. It was not entirely pleasant.
Now imagine an all-out nuclear conflict between the West and a Russia-China alliance.
Worldwide firestorms, darkness, freezing desolation and slow death.
Hell on Earth. The End.
---
When I saw that boy, I thought I'd died, and he, he was an angel.
I had a boy one time. Of my own.
I never thought I'd see a child again.
I never thought that would happen to me.