[118810] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDR: Re: IP: Editorial: Apocalypse Soon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Fri Oct 8 13:58:17 1999
Message-Id: <199910081727.NAA19754@domains.invweb.net>
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 12:20:08 -0500
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19991007125037.045b5460@popserver.com21.com>
Reply-To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
In <4.1.19991007125037.045b5460@popserver.com21.com>, on 10/07/99
at 01:08 PM, Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com> said:
>None of this should come as surprise. All empires, a don't doubt for a
>minute doubt many abroad view us as an empire, raise and fall. Technology
>can often be a two-sided proposition. As the Goths showed Rome that its
>great roads could be traveled both ways. so too will the smaller
>disaffected be able to build, acquire, and use many of the same weapons
>of mass destruction the super powers threatened one another. Only this
>time the threat of mutually assured destruction, which seemed to temper
>even the most bellicose during the Cold War, will be absent. It may be
>difficult or impossible to identify the responsible parties and offer an
>suitable/effective response.
>The future is not all bleak, however, as these new weapons capabilities
>in the hands of many will lead to the reduction in the importance and
>capabilities of the nation states which spawned this mess, as it will
>also lead to an aincrease in the number and influence of super-empowered
>individuals. One might think of this process as a form of feedback,
>tempering the virtually unchecked growth of the major powers during this
>century.
Then again the opposite may take place. If things got nasty enough once
the dust settled we could wind up with a single world government with the
surviving populace thanking them for it. After all if there is only one
government then there is no need for WMD's.
I am not advocating this. As much as I dislike the actions of the current
(and previous) US governments, I am in no rush to have a billion chinamen
telling me how to live my life either.
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