SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE:

NICE GUY:   Send some people to college, and they come out nuts.  From Slay News:  World Economic Forum (WEF) advisor Yuval Noah Harari has declared that “we just don’t need the vast majority of the population” in today’s world.  According to Harari, most of the general public have now become “redundant” and will be of little use to the global elite in the future.  Harari, who describes himself as a historian and futurist, argues that modern technologies like artificial intelligence “make it possible to replace the people.”  He made the remarks during an interview with Chris Anderson, the head of TED.  Harari, who is a principal advisor to the WEF and the organization’s founder Klaus Schwab, assessed widespread contemporary disillusionment among “common people” as being rooted in a fear of being “left behind” in a future run by “smart people.”  I think he should set an example, don't you?  He should first declare himself surplus, and then...  I'm just joking, but I'm afraid he isn't.  We've heard similar talk before, and it often came with a swastika attached.

March 23, 2023