Teri C.

An alternative to forget-who-you-killed pills would be to make meditation part of military training… but it’s not convenient to prevailing ideas about religion.

What a nightmare life on Earth apparently is, I’m glad that at least the worst parts of it only come to me through my monitor

Because there is no money in avoiding the atrocities of war.
There is also a lot of money in pioneering and selling war technology

Same thing with healthcare. Why don’t we throw away 90% of what is sold in supermarkets and teach people how to eat right and use herbs and holistic methods for dealing with their health?

Beccause there are trillions of dollars involved in Big Pharma, invasive procedures and GMOs.

Yes, it would be beneficial to use this technology to help desperate traumatized veterans.
No, It would not be beneficial to use this technology to help normalize extreme violence during wartime.
Unfortunately, there is no known way to spur military research that could directly undermine the military’s mandate to continually increase its budget or even exist at all. Blocking access to this memory-erasing technology to those on active military duty would serve as a hedge against increasing the number of atrocities during wartime, but even knowing that this treatment was waiting at the end could incentivize more brutality during deployment. All of this analysis is based on the assumption of future war. Why is it easier to pioneer memory-erasing technology in the service of future atrocities, than to simply avoid the situations in which such violations of human rights occur? The military can’t take all the blame. It is their duty to prepare themselves to the utmost. Whose job is it to prevent the need for the military to demonstrate their preparedness? Redirect focus there.

In the Prelude, a chopper flew over a small progressive communty using a thermal imaging sensor that was capable of locating and counting all the people there. Then, the “head of security” instructed his waiting troops to take their PTS medication…. (pre traumatic stress pills) so they could overrun the cummunity and kill everyone there, including the children, without hesitation or unpleasant memories of it.

Cute, yes?

Hawks claims that all the things he disusses in his book are either real or under development and that soon both private and governmental total infomation systems will be monitoring every aspect of our lives.

Seriously though, the “frog-boiling” analogy is one of the most memorable and helpful things I learned in school, along with the analogy of Plato’s cave…

(shadowy Ethel Merman imitators in a small cramped sunless place — in chains — are even scarier!)

Also, most people I know are continually pressuring their kids to “go ahead and get the diploma, and stop whining about the debt, because everybody has to do it, because we’ve always done it”, because “it’ll help you get more money”, and people who don’t are harming “us” because they’re afraid of getting off their asses and doing a little work (just like the rest of us have “always” done). Ummm…

When you always do what you’ve always done…

Thanks BIG, as always, Lee! xo