Strangely, for all their detailed preparations and precautions, these wannabe Survivor winners can't seem to see beyond the apocalypse horizon.
Or perhaps they choose not to.
Because there are so many, many more of us than there are of them, and underground there's no place to run.
They scheme to survive an apocalypse which -- if it descends -- will be largely of their own making. They strive, racing against their biological clocks, to confer literal personal immortality upon themselves.
SF writers have covered every angle of these scenarios over the decades. One would think these techno bros would've imbibed this body of work with their mother's milk. But if they did, they've either forgotten or rejected the lessons of literature and history.
Apocalypses don't end sweetly for the survivors, nor do sieges for the besieged.
Douglas Rushkoff | Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
In conversation with Kevin Werbach
Acclaimed for their intersectional explorations of cyberculture, religion, currency, and politics, Douglas Rushkoff’s 20 bestselling books include Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, and Media Virus. He also is the host of the Team Human podcast, writes a column for Medium, and created the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. A professor of media theory and digital economics at City University of New York, Queens College, he was selected as one of the world’s 10 most influential intellectuals by MIT, was the first winner of the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, is a recipient of the Marshall McLuhan Award, and has received many other accolades. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff reveals the flawed mindset that has led out-of-touch tech titans to prepare for a societal catastrophe they could simply avert through practical measures.
Chair of the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Ken Werbach is the author of For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business and The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust. He served on the Obama administration’s presidential transition team and helped develop the Federal Communications Commission’s approach to internet policy.
They are planning to build colonies on Mars and other places with the ability to travel in space. They will have all the science they need through AI.
https://open.substack.com/pub/hejon07/p/the-great-escape-or-how-i-learned?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5clzii read this for entertainment then Scroll down "sources for inspiration" 😏🥺💯
Strangely, for all their detailed preparations and precautions, these wannabe Survivor winners can't seem to see beyond the apocalypse horizon.
Or perhaps they choose not to.
Because there are so many, many more of us than there are of them, and underground there's no place to run.
They scheme to survive an apocalypse which -- if it descends -- will be largely of their own making. They strive, racing against their biological clocks, to confer literal personal immortality upon themselves.
SF writers have covered every angle of these scenarios over the decades. One would think these techno bros would've imbibed this body of work with their mother's milk. But if they did, they've either forgotten or rejected the lessons of literature and history.
Apocalypses don't end sweetly for the survivors, nor do sieges for the besieged.
Look on their works, ye mighty and despair.
https://youtu.be/tn_fdSyZFL0?si=XyWdKBu1V27VjCH5&t=1513
Find the Others | Douglas Rushkoff | Disinfo.Con (2000)
25:13 "The go-to mentality of a techno-libertarian would lead to fascism"
Douglas was already living in the future and he hadn't realized it...
https://hejon07.substack.com/p/find-the-others-a-call-to-connect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gec4TXdSwM
Douglas Rushkoff | Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
In conversation with Kevin Werbach
Acclaimed for their intersectional explorations of cyberculture, religion, currency, and politics, Douglas Rushkoff’s 20 bestselling books include Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, and Media Virus. He also is the host of the Team Human podcast, writes a column for Medium, and created the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. A professor of media theory and digital economics at City University of New York, Queens College, he was selected as one of the world’s 10 most influential intellectuals by MIT, was the first winner of the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, is a recipient of the Marshall McLuhan Award, and has received many other accolades. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff reveals the flawed mindset that has led out-of-touch tech titans to prepare for a societal catastrophe they could simply avert through practical measures.
Chair of the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Ken Werbach is the author of For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business and The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust. He served on the Obama administration’s presidential transition team and helped develop the Federal Communications Commission’s approach to internet policy.