DIVERGENT is a thrilling action-adventure film set in a future where people are divided into distinct factions based on their personalities. Tris Prior (Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy to destroy all Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it’s too late. Based on the best-selling book series by Veronica Roth.
The organizing principle of any society is for war. The basic authority of the modern state over its people resides in its war powers. Today its oil, tomorrow water. It’s what we like to call the GOD business; Guns, Oil, and Drugs. But there is a problem. Our way of life, its over. It’s unsustainable and in rapid decline, that’s why we implement demand destruction. We continue to make money as the world burns. But for this to work the people have to remain ignorant of the problem until its too late. That’s why we have triggers in place, 9/11, 7/7, WMDs. A population in a permanent state of fear does not ask questions. Our desire for war becomes its desire for war. A willing sacrifice. You see, fear is justification, fear is control, fear is money.
Elysium, a new movie starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, depicts what many futurists have long predicted is mankind’s ultimate destiny – the division of the human race into two new class systems – a transhumanist elite that centralizes technological progress to achieve utopia, and a massive underclass left to rot on a dying planet ruled by robotic drones.
However, many of the themes of Elysium are clearly lifted from the work of futurists like Ray Kurzweil, who in his book The Age of Spiritual Machines predicted the body scanner depicted in the trailer which eliminates cancer cells.
Kurzweil’s 1999 book, which successfully foresaw the invention of the iPhone, the iPad, Google Glass, iTunes, You Tube and on demand services like Netflix as well as the Kindle, predicts that by 2029 the vast majority of humans will have augmented their bodies with cybernetic implants and those who refuse or are unable to do so will form a “human underclass” that is not productively engaged in the economy.
The wider trend of the elite seeing humans as completely expendable as their roles are taken up by machines unfolds after 2029 when, “There is almost no human employment in production, agriculture, and transportation,” writes Kurzweil.
By 2099, the entire planet is run by artificially intelligent computer systems which are smarter than the entire human race combined – similar to the Skynet system fictionalized in the Terminator franchise.
Humans who resist the pressure to alter their bodies by becoming part-cyborg will be ostracized from society.
Kurzweil, recently hired by Google, repeated his forecast at the Global Futures 2045 International Congress in New York this past weekend but newspaper reports concerning the issue were absent a key disclaimer which Kurzweil admits in his book – such technology will not be available to the general public and instead will be controlled by a technocratic elite who will attempt to become super beings by merging with machines.
“We’re going to become increasingly non-biological to the point where the non-biological part dominates and the biological part is not important any more,” said Kurzweil. “In fact the non-biological part – the machine part – will be so powerful it can completely model and understand the biological part. So even if that biological part went away it wouldn’t make any difference.”
“We’ll also have non-biological bodies – we can create bodies with nano technology, we can create virtual bodies and virtual reality in which the virtual reality will be as realistic as the actual reality. The virtual bodies will be as detailed and convincing as real bodies,” he added.
However, when Kurzweil says “we” he isn’t referring to you or I, he’s referring to the 1 per cent – the monied elite who will have privileged access to technology that will allow them to eliminate all forms of disease, dispense with the need for a human body and eventually achieve immortality by existing as a computer program on the world wide web.
Just a thought v1.5 ~ a primer for alternative thinking for the YZ generations
Our world. A look at America and the world today, and the devastating effects of imperialism, globalization,and corporate greed, to name a few.
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The Banker Occupied Governments of this world are preparing you and your friends and family to play the role of the Zombies in the Brad Pitt film World War Z which will be released in June 2013. The Z in the title stands for Zombies.
This movie is a metaphor for killing those pesky poor people (Zombies) who have nothing to eat because the bankers stole all of their money. Ask yourself why the US government has the Army playing war games in which they are training to kill Zombies.
What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire is a 2007 documentary film about the current situation facing humanity and the world. It discusses issues such as peak oil, climate change and the effects of global warming, population overshoot and species extinction, as well as how this situation has developed. The documentary features supporting data and interviews of Daniel Quinn, environmental activist Derrick Jensen and Richard Heinberg and many others.
The tagline of the documentary is, “A middle-class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle.”
Ye fiends. You princes of darkness with your attendants, suckups followers and hangers on, you are truly alone though you may not know that you are. You ride the high hog of personal consumption, seemingly invulnerable to anything that might impact on your pressing needs and you got all the time in the world and no time at all. You publicly murder, torture and oppress a people that you are the superimposed counterfeit of, while you live on their land; the land you forced them off of and you laugh about it. You boast about how you control the United states of America and much of the rest of the world. You think you are gods but you are not. You are demons in human skin and when you are gone you will be past remembering. You will be a black hole of nothing in your own private hells and public eternal hells with your kith and kinder and kin. This is the irresistible result of anyone and everyone who ever cared nothing, for anyone but themselves and had the temerity to boast about what you have done. You put your own words into print, so that the world could hear them. There is one who will not be mocked and I speak for him and I am not alone in that.
Your day has come. Your day has come. Judgment day is upon you and not only you but every rat-tailed traitor to the human race, with no conscience in their hearts and your mark upon their face. Justice might be swift at times and sometimes overdue but… justice always comes and now it comes for you.
There are green fields that have yet to come and people who will take their leisure in them. You will not be among them.
There are many lines of destiny coming into alignment, converging, collapsing, and convoluting through the month of November. As we make our way toward one “endpoint” (12-21) we will, each of us, need to face that which has held us back from full expression, full creative participation, and full union with the Other and the World. This will be a month where Life, as our teacher, will place before us one shock,one surprise, one challenge or one doubt after another to constantly check our limits, our desire, our integrity, and our readiness to make the leap across the threshold to a New World.
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