Forum / Get Ready

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  Chris Okum

  Jul 27, 09:58pm

  In the very near future it will no longer be nation states that have access to the materials which can build atomic weapons, it will also be certain individuals, i.e., the richest men in the world, who will command their own arsenal of ICBMs, and from that point forward the entire paradigm of human civilization will change into a world ruled by feudal lords who will be able to blackmail everyone else as a way of holding onto power and gaining even vaster amounts of wealth. Because it doesn't matter if the United States or Russia has thousands of these things. If Peter Thiel (who will soon be producing his own uranium, and yes, you read that correctly), for example, or Elon Musk, has 10-15 nuclear weapons it will be enough. You don't need much to end life on this planet, which is something the atomic theorists have always known. I think Don DeLillo was incorrect when he postulated that "the future belongs to crowds." It would appear that the future actually belongs to the few.

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