10-10-2020, 04:06 AM
(10-09-2020, 09:03 AM)David Horn Wrote:(10-08-2020, 09:59 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(10-08-2020, 12:38 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Thus far it has only been tested in the gunpowder age, though. We'll see how things go in the nuclear weapons age. My biggest fear is that the stable form of government in the nuclear weapons age may be that of North Korea.
It is OK to worry, but it is not profitable to get involved in a nuke war. While a North Korea might talk a big game, Trump's boast a while back that he has a bigger button has some truth to it. It might be a better tactic to yap than to actually do something. As is, the primary results of yapping seems to be sanctions and famine. It is not surprising North Korea has no imitators of their approach.
Don't discount 'stupid' as a policy, We've seen stupid many times before; QAnon is a prime example today.
Likewise the absurd, failed plot against Governor Whitmer (D-Michigan).
A hint about conspiracies: most are harebrained plots. Just think of the superb movie Double Indemnity (the original from 1944, and definitely not the lame 1973 made-for-TV remake) to see (if participants have higher social-economic status than the usual conspirators) in one of the more common circumstances: a murder-for-hire lot in which one of the spouses seeks to dispose of an inconvenient spouse while collecting life-insurance proceeds.
With the arguable exception of the July 20 plot against Satan Incarnate, conspirators are typically either underworld figures seeking some easy money or... well some clique of dimwits. The bigger the conspiracy, the more about it can go wrong, such as infiltration, people deciding to break from it to save themselves a prison term or capital punishment, or an unraveling after the fact.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
