by ReverseEngineer » Thu 30 Oct 2008, 03:58:03
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BlisteredWhippet', 'S')top playing stupid. You know the answer. Its slapping you in the face. Its tickling your balls. Why are you afraid of its inevitability? There is no other solution. "THEY" are too smart to allow the world to be trashed by petty wars that go nowhere, that accomplish nothing but further destruction. Expect pandemic before tipping points. If tipping points are reached before pandemic, consider me wrong, because that is certainly not the timeline they'll be persuing. If they don't release pandemic before the tipping point, my rationale is certainly wrong, for there is going to be nothing to "save".
I do not agree that the mechanisms are in place to proceed with a "controlled genocide" via biological pathogens, despite the fact such things have been under investigation since at least the 1950s. On the Dark Side of the scientific equation, this is much like the pursuit of an inexhaustible source of energy in the form of Fusion Power, also pursued since that time.
I spent a reasonable amount of time in research in both Physics and Biochemistry back in the 70s. Actually, the lab I worked in developed some of the first Radio Imunno Assay tests. The fact is however that while we can build a decent H-Bomb, actually controlling this energy is as far from our grasp now as it was in the 70s. Simlarly, although we can sequence DNA and tally up the Human Genome, even create designer organisms to an extent, we have no control whatsoever of what a biological organism will do once out in the wild. Any pathogen with the ability to wipe out say 80% of humanity would also have the potential of mutating int he wild to knock out EVERYBODY, so its not something the "techno-elite" would let loose, any more than they would willy nilly start hurling nukes at each other. You can't make "surgical strikes" with "smart bombs", as was demonstrated fairly effectively in the original Gulf War. War remains messy with a lot of collateral damage. Biological warfare would be no different, in fact far worse, so its not something the techno elite will currently mess with themselves. Too good a chance they are the ones that get sick and die if you release out into the wild any pathogen with this kind of virulence.
This is not to say mass genocide will not be attempted by some means, and of course controlled starvation is probably the most likely means possible for the techno elite. This low tech method is far more controllable than any of the high tech methods. The problem with this method is it suffers political problems and military problems in implementation. As the army of the Roman Empire fractured, so also will large military structures of today fracture in a starvation scenario. Everybody looking out for themselves basically, and factions develop internally creating internecine war inside any monolith.
I am not really arguing with you that there IS a techno elite wishing to create a New World Order, or that they will attempt to rather ruthlessly pursue such an agenda. I just question their ability to make a success of this venture, as I questioned the ability of George Bush to gain control over Iraq and question the ability of the federal goobermint to mqnage depopulation through the mega cities of the US. To many possibilities for anarchy, its chaos theory, Benoit Mandelbrot got this stuff RIGHT.
We should get to see how many of these ideas play themselves out over the next decade or so, assuming the whole process is not short circuited through environmental degradation and methane release from clathrates or global thermonuclear war. I do expect to see a gradual dropping out of posters here through the time period however
I'll keep posting long as I can. Crossing my fingers that the Internet goes Dark before I cross over to the Other Side.
See You on the Other Side.
Reverse Engineer
