But I wonder, does Cummings ever ask: what’s the disruption for? And what’s its cost? And is the answer ever to improve the quality of people’s lives? To make the society more prosperous, to make it more just? To make his country a place in which people want to live and feel proud of? - ThreadSky

antonspisak.bsky.social • 14 days ago

But I wonder, does Cummings ever ask: what’s the disruption for? And what’s its cost? And is the answer ever to improve the quality of people’s lives? To make the society more prosperous, to make it more just? To make his country a place in which people want to live and feel proud of?

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seatleon.bsky.social•14 days ago

its like Trading Places. A game to these people who are misfits in society

antonspisak.bsky.social•14 days ago

Or is it just to break things for the sake of an act of breaking things? To be part of the Great Disruption Club of a new technocratic elite who believe they figured it out by reading history and Dostoyevsky and watching Youtubes on “systems thinking”?

antonspisak.bsky.social•14 days ago

Isn’t their goal in the end just to be seen? To be acknowledged at last? To belong somewhere — in a club of their own, because the world at large rejected them for so long.

laserhundreds.bsky.social•14 days ago

"Press them on what the “regime change” is about or what it is for..."

Or for whom; cui bono?

lilianedwards.bsky.social•14 days ago

Yes. The goal is to prove he is smarter than the normies. Just as it is with longtermist, AGI doomerism and transhumanism - all exclusively white males panicking.

yermazaguddin.bsky.social•14 days ago

It’s exactly this. To fuck shit up because they feel impotent.

aardgoose.info•14 days ago

It's the same "let super intelligent thinkers run everything", who accidentally all seem to be eugenicists or white supremacists. Of which Cummings believes he is one.

ghiberti.bsky.social•14 days ago

Neat freaks who can't handle a typo in the social security database leading to a person being recorded as 150 years old

milliemollieamanda.bsky.social•14 days ago

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emmatonkin.bsky.social•14 days ago

Remember that clip of Cummings' baronet father-in-law rambling about eugenics and success? Cummings himself talking about designer babies for the wealthy? I strongly suspect he essentially wants England's old social hierarchy - and a lot more of it.

ereshkigal99.bsky.social•14 days ago

Good question. The purpose of government should be to guarantee basic standard of living, water, food, shelter; improve people’s lives; protect them from forces beyond their control - sickness, war, disasters, predatory practices designed to impoverish them.

amhoward.bsky.social•14 days ago

As an evidence-led kind of guy, I wonder if he might want to wait a little while and see how this all plays out in MAGA-land? You know, just in case it turns out to be a shit storm.

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