Hmmm, yes, I suppose it's likely that after the global elites are burned that new growth will simply spawn from the soil from which the last batch grew.
The elites fill a particular ecological niche, so if one wanted to prevent them growing back in broadly the same form, then it'd be necessary to also 'salt the earth' of their ecosystem so to speak. Otherwise, whoever replaced them would probably end up taking on the same form for the same conditions and doing the same thing to us all over again.
So one would have to destroy the tentacles/limbs, plus the limbless beast itself, and if one was really keen, the source from which the beast emanated as well. Of course, there'd still be a vacuum to fill, but all that destruction ought to at least provide some breathing room.
Going to that kind of extreme (and it would be extreme) would probably require a kind of religious luddite fervor though. I can imagine that happening, even if I'm not sure that it's any more likely to succeed in the end than the drive to transhumanize us. But if, for the sake of argument, a movement like that does gather steam, then I can imagine its leaders being as terrifying and capable of vast destruction and evil as anyone on a holy crusade - in the same kind of way as the current crop of elites running the show appear to be capable of vast evil in pursuit of their own religion of progress and, dare I say it, class interests.
Even if they failed they could do lots of damage - and their opponents have already shown they are capable of same.
It's enough to make me wish for a hidden valley somewhere, or a mountain with a big cave in the side.
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Date: 2023-01-16 07:40 am (UTC)The elites fill a particular ecological niche, so if one wanted to prevent them growing back in broadly the same form, then it'd be necessary to also 'salt the earth' of their ecosystem so to speak. Otherwise, whoever replaced them would probably end up taking on the same form for the same conditions and doing the same thing to us all over again.
So one would have to destroy the tentacles/limbs, plus the limbless beast itself, and if one was really keen, the source from which the beast emanated as well. Of course, there'd still be a vacuum to fill, but all that destruction ought to at least provide some breathing room.
Going to that kind of extreme (and it would be extreme) would probably require a kind of religious luddite fervor though. I can imagine that happening, even if I'm not sure that it's any more likely to succeed in the end than the drive to transhumanize us. But if, for the sake of argument, a movement like that does gather steam, then I can imagine its leaders being as terrifying and capable of vast destruction and evil as anyone on a holy crusade - in the same kind of way as the current crop of elites running the show appear to be capable of vast evil in pursuit of their own religion of progress and, dare I say it, class interests.
Even if they failed they could do lots of damage - and their opponents have already shown they are capable of same.
It's enough to make me wish for a hidden valley somewhere, or a mountain with a big cave in the side.
The Ninth Mouse