I fear, the dissolution of western society is only a few decades away.

[DetlefK]

Why do people become MAGAts? Why do they become conspiracy-theorists and fascists?

Because the complexity of human society has eclipsed the point where people can understand human society.



The world has grown ever-more complicated over the last 20 years. It has become more and more multipolar. Thanks to the internet, there is literally about 1 billion voices that make up the chatter of the world-wide human society.

1 billion voices.

But, when everybody gets heard, nobody gets heard.

People want to be heard, but fail to understand or refuse to understand that they are insignificant. So, as is natural for the human mind, they think that SOMEBODY is to blame. Not SOMETHING, e.g. the limitations of our communication-networks, but SOMEONE. This leads to two options:
1. They accuse the people they don't like for marginalizing them. For example, how white, christian males are a persecuted minority in the US.
2. If they cannot identify any real-life culprit, they just invent one. They blame "THEM". "Them" is the unseen and unheard-of conspiracy that is responsible for all the evil things.

This is why people become fascists: They feel lost and adrift and unheard and they think that installing a dictatorship, where any attempts to make society more complex and diverse are violently discouraged, will do away with their problems.





And it will only get worse over the next decades.

You think that MAGAts and conspiracy-theorists are weird now? Just think how complicated human society WILL become in only a few generations:


* Robots:
Robots are getting ever-more intelligent. There will be a point, where it will become more profitable for a corporation to buy a mindless robotic slave-labourer than to hire and pay a human of low education. It may be 10 years from now, it may be 30 years from now, but there will be a point where robots will render human workers below a certain level of qualification simply unemployable.

Whether this is politcially and economically sensible, that depends on how precisely this will play out. But imagine the outrage from the conspiracy-theorists how robots are taking our jobs.


* Cyborgs:
The technology of brain-machine-interfaces and artificial limbs and electronic implants has made massive strides during the last decade.
50 years ago, our current connected world with smartphone and internet was unthinkable.
But imagine what these brain-machine-interfaces could mean 50 years from now. Why use mouse and keyboard and touchpad? Why use a joystick to fly a plane, when you can do so far more efficiently by connecting your brain directly to the onboard-computer?

Now imagine the outrage among conspiracy-theorists when pilots and data-analysts and soldiers and government-employees and politicians and scientists and whatnot get brain-plugs.


* Genetics:
The photosynthesis of plants is inefficient, compared to the photosynthesis of cyanobacteria (algae). About 10 years ago, there was a research-project to splice the genes of cyanobacteria into plants. The result would be new super-plants that grow many times faster than normal plants. With the new gene-editing tool CRISPR, it's just a question of time before a biotech-corporation starts growing and selling their own super-food.

On one hand, these new plants have the potential to eradicate world-hunger. On the other hand, can you imagine the outrage from conspiracy-theorists, when whole new species of grains and vegetables are showing up in our supermarket-shelves, that are known to be 100% genetically engineered?







The MAGAts cannot handle the realities of life as the world is right now. Imagine how they will react if the world becomes even harder to understand. Imagine how they will react when robots and cybernetic implants and new genetic life-forms enter the stage, and oh so many more changes I haven't even thought about.

[Kali]

1. the looney and ignorant have always been with us

[Thekaspervote]

2. They are a small number compared to the sane world

Democracy is fragile yes, but not going to doom and gloom about it. I give money, vote, active in elections..we just have to stay vigilant

[dweller]

3. I've been meaning to watch Blade Runner again

and reread THE FORTUNATE FALL
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fortunate_Fall_(novel)


✌🏻

[Warpy]

4. I'm alot more concerned about the enormous drop in insect biomass

because if the bugs go, so do we, along with most of the plants we count on eating.

If you think the morons are nuts now, wait until they're starving and nuts. A deadly epidemic is kinder, it's quicker. It's also inevitable.

Some days I'm glad I'm old.