Can I take a moment and speak to the appropriateness of where all ruling powers around the world have led us to:

Malallocation Noun. The act or an instance of malallocating something. If misallocating is poor or improper allocation, malallocation is a more extreme form of the same principle, except instead of varying degrees of being suboptimal, it is directly harmful in important ways to the host.

Humanity has some really big fucking fish to fry at the moment. It looks like we are choosing going full psycho, so at the moment when the world needed to push past industrialization into something more sustainable, we chose billionaire fantasy levels3 of egregious malallocation. All that absolutely neccessary global military buildup is malallocating funds from our transition from a perpetual growth plague species, to a sustainable member of a natural complex system, keeping the system viable indefinitely. Like on the level of answering the Fermi Paradox. Can the species be smart enough to overcome the growth paradigm, before succumbing to the environmental deterioration of a species intelligent enough to remove a great many limits to growth, but not yet smart enough to not do so, deliberately, because of an understanding of scale and long term consequences. I’d even settle for a little pre-caution. But no, short term benefits are indeed enormous so humanity continues to make terrible decisions that lock in horrific consequences for us all, forever. Like climate change, but not just that.

I genuinely believe we won’t make it the transition. The irony is that we could, but only with real meritocratic win-win capable management, not the psychopaths in charge now. Guys like Bannon think they are architects of surviving empires making it through the transition. Alien archeologists will hear of the god of death who brought the end of global cooperation just when humanity needed it most. It’s the ONLY way to deal with global problems.

The irony is these people are the very forces they fear the most. It’s how you get into an AI cold war as birth rates plummet while building billionaire bu kers. Terminal short termism.