workersadvocate
28th February 2012, 02:14
I am constantly thinking about ways to break the back of exploitative systems, which in the 21st century seem almost unbeattable...but only if we think with currently dominating paradigms, and limit out own options due to "moral" concerns.
My morality can be summed up basically to this: so long as anyone is a "nobody" in the eyes of society, it is just to treat all such society as monstrous. Any means are just which create and motivate interests for equality among humanity. It is even just to use pain, danger and uncertainty in order to break addiction to making lives based upon exploitation and oppression.
Our foes have weapons of mass destruction, great wealth, much technology at their disposal, allowing them to reign over and exploit some 7 billion human subjects-slaves and the planet. This seems like a hopely captive enslaved world...if we only think and act "inside the box". What could shake this loose, and radically unravel the balance and contril of the powers that be? What would it really take to embolden the 7 billions worker-slaves of the Earth to dare to engage in the revolutionary act against the Great Powers?
Perhaps we must consider "outside the box" options: developing the sort of extraterrestrial offensive capabilities to bring " business as usual" on Earth to a sudden halt and force all the great powers to their fucking knees. Perhaps they have the Earth, but who has the Sun?
The Earth has an obvious dependent relationship upon the Sun. That relationship can be interrupted, infringed upon, blocked or altered. It is just a question of developing, deploying, controlling and protecting the means to do it...or to at least deliver the plausible threat of making the world a very dark and much colder place-at will-and making it impossible for the Great Powers of Earth to act in time to stop us. Blocking the sun is our trump card. We could give the fools and their masters something worthy to be afraid of, and knock them hard of their pedastals. Best of all, this probably could be done cheaper and sooner than it would take to develop a "death star" capability, and trying to win a terrestrial arms race is futile. They have this world, but space is still an uncontrolled frontier that could be where we begin to pull the red carpet from under the Great Powers, and of course wake up the masses of the world to the fact that they really cannot live under the existing order even one more day.
So, even if you suppose this "outside the box" idea is totally crazy/ immoral/straight frim hell, just try to run with it seriously for a bit as an experiment in thought.
1) what at minimum would be required to block almost all heat and light of the sun from the earth, and also to control this so as to have the ability to unblock the sun?
2) how far away from the earth would such a sun-blocker have to be in order to be effective and also effectively out of the range of any possible space weapons likely to exist or be rapidly deployed by Great Powers?
3) by what means COULD such a sun-blocker project realistically be launched and constructed in space? Private companies are now penetrating the space frontier, though mostly in near-earth orbit or attempting to land on the Moon. So much for the big thinking of the capitalists!
4) why haven't or wouldn't other interests attempt to do sun-blocking as a new space weapon? These great powers with arsenals of weapons of mass destruction can remove the halos from their heads, for they already have the means to irreversibly destroy the world and all life in it may times over, and thus compel the "crazy" lengths that may be required to remove their yoke and their terror. Although the great powers probably haven't gotten so far in weaponizing space (though certainly they have deployed extensive surveillance capabilities) , that is only a matter of time and investment before they do. They pointed their weapons at the Earth first. To disarm them, one must use the element if surprise, stand behind and put a much bigger gun to their heads which they are incapable of defending from. No one on Earth can survive long without the heat and light of the Sun reaching the planet. Permanent darkness. Rapid ice age. How low would the temperatures fall? Would it even be possible for the primary means of energy generation and distribition on Earth to continue? Would the oceans freeze? Inside and outside, who could survive and for how long? The 1% couldn't even escape or react defensively in time. Muthafucking checkmate; all their weapons and wealth are reduced to bundles of toothpicks by comparison.
I'm not saying it would necessarily have to go so far. Just the threat of instant Iceball Earth is suuficient. Worst comes to worst, remove the sun-blocker out of its offensive posture, the world will thaw soon, restart human life and civilization on a new basis immediately, like the past never even happened, and don't mourn the dead because they decided to accept their fate rather than secure a better world for themselves with their own hands, and sooner or later they would have irreversibly destroyed the world and all life in it if we had not intervened beforehand (yes, all humanity bears responsibility if we allow the Great Powers to pursue the road to consuming the world in death). If they accept the status quo so much, and would refuse to leave slavery at the first real international opportunity,et them be frozen within the old order and then melt away with it. We'll do better next time.
Of course, I don't think most people would accept the current order if it was trumped by such a greater power that actually demanded that they liberate themselves of all the oppresser and exploiter classes in revolution and stated that the consequence for not doing so would be a world without all the Sun's heat and light.
Even the religious masses would hurry up and do the work of revolution, probably reinterpreting their scripts to describe our sunblocker as a "gift from god" and comparing it to the story of Moses bringing his people outta Egyptian bondage. What would matter is the work done; we can deal with the wacky religious superstitions later on in freedom.
Our sunblocker was just a catalyst, to make it impossible for the Great Powers to function and defend themselves, creating the room and immediate pressing incentive for the workimg masses to take this world and remake it as their own. Human emancipation is still an act of conscious collective self-emancipation. All we would have done is disarmed the powers that be and put fire under the ass of humanity (or actually, threatened to take all the Sun's heat and light away and leaving them to freeze) to no longer accept the old order because one way or another it is ending now. If such tough love is a sin, then let humanity convict us upon our return, with the old order abolished and a united working class reigning over the world. It would be well worth being executed for the crime of getting humanity to liberate itself. And if humanity ever sought to return to its old exploitative ways,
the unforgettable memory of the sunblocker would somewhere somehow inspire someone to boldly act "outside the box" to turn humanity back from its path to eventual self-destruction. Worst comes to worst, there is always a restart button, as long as the Sun and Earth still remain. We really don't have to put up with any bullshit.
I put this in Science section, because this should first be considered on its scientific plausibility first. Our first concern shouldn't be money or technical capacities available presently or the morality debate. Frankly, if I could think of it, so could others of diffetent interests and means...so if possible it is a question of Whom and When. If it is possible, we'd better do it first. The future calls, and it's crazier not to listen. Don't take shit for granted. The will to human liberation must and will find a way, even if we have to fight from the space frontiers. Sick of all the excuses for why revolution isn't possible on Earth, which many leftists themselves will offer, did you think I'd just stop thinking about it and give up?
What happens when some of us "nobodies" get desparate, think outside the box, and take matters into our own hands rather than wait for the system to "collapse" ( uh, that would be as a result of an unconventional world war?) or some magical "awakening" of the satisfied or powerlessly enslaved and divided and narrow-minded and authority-fearing masses? No, we shouldn't wait until it is too late.
My morality can be summed up basically to this: so long as anyone is a "nobody" in the eyes of society, it is just to treat all such society as monstrous. Any means are just which create and motivate interests for equality among humanity. It is even just to use pain, danger and uncertainty in order to break addiction to making lives based upon exploitation and oppression.
Our foes have weapons of mass destruction, great wealth, much technology at their disposal, allowing them to reign over and exploit some 7 billion human subjects-slaves and the planet. This seems like a hopely captive enslaved world...if we only think and act "inside the box". What could shake this loose, and radically unravel the balance and contril of the powers that be? What would it really take to embolden the 7 billions worker-slaves of the Earth to dare to engage in the revolutionary act against the Great Powers?
Perhaps we must consider "outside the box" options: developing the sort of extraterrestrial offensive capabilities to bring " business as usual" on Earth to a sudden halt and force all the great powers to their fucking knees. Perhaps they have the Earth, but who has the Sun?
The Earth has an obvious dependent relationship upon the Sun. That relationship can be interrupted, infringed upon, blocked or altered. It is just a question of developing, deploying, controlling and protecting the means to do it...or to at least deliver the plausible threat of making the world a very dark and much colder place-at will-and making it impossible for the Great Powers of Earth to act in time to stop us. Blocking the sun is our trump card. We could give the fools and their masters something worthy to be afraid of, and knock them hard of their pedastals. Best of all, this probably could be done cheaper and sooner than it would take to develop a "death star" capability, and trying to win a terrestrial arms race is futile. They have this world, but space is still an uncontrolled frontier that could be where we begin to pull the red carpet from under the Great Powers, and of course wake up the masses of the world to the fact that they really cannot live under the existing order even one more day.
So, even if you suppose this "outside the box" idea is totally crazy/ immoral/straight frim hell, just try to run with it seriously for a bit as an experiment in thought.
1) what at minimum would be required to block almost all heat and light of the sun from the earth, and also to control this so as to have the ability to unblock the sun?
2) how far away from the earth would such a sun-blocker have to be in order to be effective and also effectively out of the range of any possible space weapons likely to exist or be rapidly deployed by Great Powers?
3) by what means COULD such a sun-blocker project realistically be launched and constructed in space? Private companies are now penetrating the space frontier, though mostly in near-earth orbit or attempting to land on the Moon. So much for the big thinking of the capitalists!
4) why haven't or wouldn't other interests attempt to do sun-blocking as a new space weapon? These great powers with arsenals of weapons of mass destruction can remove the halos from their heads, for they already have the means to irreversibly destroy the world and all life in it may times over, and thus compel the "crazy" lengths that may be required to remove their yoke and their terror. Although the great powers probably haven't gotten so far in weaponizing space (though certainly they have deployed extensive surveillance capabilities) , that is only a matter of time and investment before they do. They pointed their weapons at the Earth first. To disarm them, one must use the element if surprise, stand behind and put a much bigger gun to their heads which they are incapable of defending from. No one on Earth can survive long without the heat and light of the Sun reaching the planet. Permanent darkness. Rapid ice age. How low would the temperatures fall? Would it even be possible for the primary means of energy generation and distribition on Earth to continue? Would the oceans freeze? Inside and outside, who could survive and for how long? The 1% couldn't even escape or react defensively in time. Muthafucking checkmate; all their weapons and wealth are reduced to bundles of toothpicks by comparison.
I'm not saying it would necessarily have to go so far. Just the threat of instant Iceball Earth is suuficient. Worst comes to worst, remove the sun-blocker out of its offensive posture, the world will thaw soon, restart human life and civilization on a new basis immediately, like the past never even happened, and don't mourn the dead because they decided to accept their fate rather than secure a better world for themselves with their own hands, and sooner or later they would have irreversibly destroyed the world and all life in it if we had not intervened beforehand (yes, all humanity bears responsibility if we allow the Great Powers to pursue the road to consuming the world in death). If they accept the status quo so much, and would refuse to leave slavery at the first real international opportunity,et them be frozen within the old order and then melt away with it. We'll do better next time.
Of course, I don't think most people would accept the current order if it was trumped by such a greater power that actually demanded that they liberate themselves of all the oppresser and exploiter classes in revolution and stated that the consequence for not doing so would be a world without all the Sun's heat and light.
Even the religious masses would hurry up and do the work of revolution, probably reinterpreting their scripts to describe our sunblocker as a "gift from god" and comparing it to the story of Moses bringing his people outta Egyptian bondage. What would matter is the work done; we can deal with the wacky religious superstitions later on in freedom.
Our sunblocker was just a catalyst, to make it impossible for the Great Powers to function and defend themselves, creating the room and immediate pressing incentive for the workimg masses to take this world and remake it as their own. Human emancipation is still an act of conscious collective self-emancipation. All we would have done is disarmed the powers that be and put fire under the ass of humanity (or actually, threatened to take all the Sun's heat and light away and leaving them to freeze) to no longer accept the old order because one way or another it is ending now. If such tough love is a sin, then let humanity convict us upon our return, with the old order abolished and a united working class reigning over the world. It would be well worth being executed for the crime of getting humanity to liberate itself. And if humanity ever sought to return to its old exploitative ways,
the unforgettable memory of the sunblocker would somewhere somehow inspire someone to boldly act "outside the box" to turn humanity back from its path to eventual self-destruction. Worst comes to worst, there is always a restart button, as long as the Sun and Earth still remain. We really don't have to put up with any bullshit.
I put this in Science section, because this should first be considered on its scientific plausibility first. Our first concern shouldn't be money or technical capacities available presently or the morality debate. Frankly, if I could think of it, so could others of diffetent interests and means...so if possible it is a question of Whom and When. If it is possible, we'd better do it first. The future calls, and it's crazier not to listen. Don't take shit for granted. The will to human liberation must and will find a way, even if we have to fight from the space frontiers. Sick of all the excuses for why revolution isn't possible on Earth, which many leftists themselves will offer, did you think I'd just stop thinking about it and give up?
What happens when some of us "nobodies" get desparate, think outside the box, and take matters into our own hands rather than wait for the system to "collapse" ( uh, that would be as a result of an unconventional world war?) or some magical "awakening" of the satisfied or powerlessly enslaved and divided and narrow-minded and authority-fearing masses? No, we shouldn't wait until it is too late.