How do y'all cope with this
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
Exactly what I was just thinking. This exact realization is a significant plot point in the book
Hooray, more stuff to read!
I am re-reading this currently! Love KSR, but wow eerily apt with MftF.
The terrorists in that book are ethical and fair. In reality the types that would actually engage in that behavior would consider collateral damage as part of the “de growth”.
The terrorists in the book are ethical and fair, because B is Mother. Without his black-ops hand guiding those kinds of things, they allude it would be a lot worse than drone swarms and pebble missiles. Transforming blind rageful terrorism into relatively guided eco-sabotage and brinksmanship that pushes through carboncoins and wealth caps.
I also noted this time around, that Franks talk with the Kali takes place before Mary and B chat about blackbooks stuff. So B was already doing the needful, for a long while.