Wealthy Worried About Keeping Control of Their Minions After “The Event”
July 6th, 2018
Via: Medium:
The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down.
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers?—?if that technology could be developed in time.
I’m reading Francis Schaeffer’s ‘How Shall We Then Live?’, an overview of the effect of worldview on society, which is very relevant to and predictive of the beliefs and attitudes this guy describes such as “to be human is treated less as a feature than bug.”
BTW, ‘Escape from Reason’, also by Schaeffer, covers the same ground in a much condensed form.