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Why Billionaires Are Obsessed With the Apocalypse
The Nation via MSN ^ | February 14, 2024 | Jared Marcel Pollen

Posted on 02/21/2024 4:43:24 AM PST by DoodleBob

… he meets a small group of billionaires with heavy investments in the tech sector…proceed to ask him which remote location would be the best place to build their doomsday shelters: New Zealand or Alaska? And if they hired armed guards to protect these compounds, how could they ensure their loyalty? (Would you, for example, withhold food from them, or make them wear disciplinary collars?) … could they insulate themselves from the people who would inevitably seek out their refuge?

…The Mindset, broadly defined, is the tendency to see human interests as subservient to those of technological progress… “technopoly”: the “submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology.”….

Thus, we see why Elon Musk is obsessed with laying the groundwork for his extraplanetary colony; why Jeff Bezos wants to move heavy industry into orbit to keep the supply lines running if the planet is destroyed; why Mark Zuckerberg is trying to dial himself into metaverse; or why Ray Kurzweil wants to upload his consciousness to a cloud. All of them are adherents of the Mindset; … that they can shield themselves from disaster and then remake the world to their liking. The future of technological progress, Rushkoff argues, is now an experimental endgame in which the wealthiest and most powerful race to find the escape hatch; it is less about raising up humanity than rising above the rest of us.

… by appealing to the rich and exalting their inventions, we “perpetuate the myth that only a technocratic elite can possibly fix our problems,”… It also encourages a gamified vision of life: regarding the world as a kind of system that can be hacked or rebooted if we just grant those with the power to do so unlimited resources to carry out their plans.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: compound; doomsday; teotwawki
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To: SaveFerris

AMEN!


21 posted on 02/21/2024 5:06:09 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: catnipman

also when the USA falls other dominoes and they will find themselves without wealth. After if the USA no longer exists, your dollars are worthless


22 posted on 02/21/2024 5:07:13 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: srmanuel

Check out the podcast in post 10.

It is not that you are doing anything wrong but you may be playing the wrong game.


23 posted on 02/21/2024 5:07:53 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: DoodleBob

“if they hired armed guards to protect these compounds, how could they ensure their loyalty?”

Have the guards bring their family during the bug-out.


24 posted on 02/21/2024 5:09:48 AM PST by Jolla
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To: metmom; DoodleBob

Snowpiercer was spot on in many ways.


25 posted on 02/21/2024 5:16:27 AM PST by small farm girl
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To: Jolla

Everything depends on the amount of time of the bug-out.

If it is a few weeks everything should go as planned.

However if we are talking a year or longer all bets are off. The wealth would be disconnected from its source and the bunker power structure will start to look like a prison—where the most ruthless rule—and there are no rules.


26 posted on 02/21/2024 5:18:55 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: metmom; Jonty30
When I think of a Globalist Rich Man - I think of Klaus Schwab - and George Soros - both Globalists - both Leftist fruitcakes - both sowing destruction all over the Earth - And then there's Bill Gates........when their wealth is stripped away, they'll be powerless....

Like The United Nations, The World Economic Forum (WEF) also awaits their Antichrist




27 posted on 02/21/2024 5:28:50 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: cgbg

Thanks for that link...


28 posted on 02/21/2024 5:29:03 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Ikeon

Truth


29 posted on 02/21/2024 5:29:30 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: small farm girl

[Snowpiercer]

I’ve never seen it. Good movie?


30 posted on 02/21/2024 5:30:33 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: catnipman
What are those billionaire pr*cks going to do when this is what they see out the viewport?


31 posted on 02/21/2024 5:35:36 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: cgbg
>>a lot of trust in them

Pretty sure that the world’s billionaires heard about what happened 02-16-2024 in Texas.

You will be left at the bottom of that stock tank while your trusted’s are probably shorting stocks on the European and Asian markets.

32 posted on 02/21/2024 5:42:23 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Sicon

I would be the most worried about what would happen inside the bunker.

Extreme stress makes all the rules go away in a hurry.


33 posted on 02/21/2024 5:44:53 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: SaveFerris; small farm girl; metmom

Snowpiercer is an outstanding film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowpiercer

Basically, the world has been frozen over (global cooling due to a backfired anti-global warming solution) and humanity survives on a luxury train that circles the earth continuously. The inhabitants are chiefly wealthy folks who cold afford the staggering price of entry, but there is a section in the rear full of human refuse (ie normal people) who try to storm the front cars every few years.

Tilda Swinton shoulda got an Oscar for her performance.


34 posted on 02/21/2024 5:46:56 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: SaveFerris

Very disturbing, worth the watch. I dare you not to think about Bill Gates and his ilk while watching.


35 posted on 02/21/2024 5:47:34 AM PST by small farm girl
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To: SaveFerris; small farm girl; metmom
Tilda Swinton shoulda got an Oscar for her performance as Minister Mason. Absolutely brutal.


36 posted on 02/21/2024 5:52:24 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleBob

Book of Mathew (Chapter 6) The words of Jesus from The Sermon on the Mount...(King James Version)

Verse 19: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Verse 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Verse 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.


37 posted on 02/21/2024 5:55:19 AM PST by Gnome1949
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To: srmanuel
I wonder if any of the rich have boned up on history?

“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. Anything built by man, can be destroyed by him.”

General George S. Patton.

38 posted on 02/21/2024 6:06:49 AM PST by Mogger (Are)
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To: DoodleBob

Interesting


39 posted on 02/21/2024 6:08:20 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: DoodleBob; small farm girl

I’ll see if I can come across it one of these days

Thanks


40 posted on 02/21/2024 6:13:57 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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