Originally Posted by
arh
Howetzer, which cold-war era government are you referring to?
I think we need to be fewer people. And give up strong individualism, more or less. The way things are now, we just don't have the resources. Now I'm one of those who kind of liked the Brave New World society. Act utilitarianism at its strongest: the masses get their opium and the clever move to Falkand Islands.. :)
Anyway, should we continue to please the masses? Or get rid of them? No doubt about it, the middle class of today will fade, leaving two groups: those who have the intelligence and creativity to make them worth in an increasingly automated world, and those who don't. What about the latter? Gene therapy? Either we have to fix ourselves somehow, or we'll have to dump those who can't make it through the needle's eye.
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