It was all very well for Turner, he was painting from the vantage point of an empire on the ascendancy.
Is anyone else here terrified by the feeling of geopolitics shifting under their feet? I think it's a bit too specific for a support group...
What gives me nightmares is what a competent authoritarian state, corporation or network could do with present technology. Think Stalin with the capabilities of the NSA or Hitler with a first rate human genomics and sequencing program. Such a power could actually accomplish their insane ideas of racial (kill everyone that has these three SNPs) or ideological purity (kill everyone that thinks the government is doing a bad job).
This is what I'm actually talking about. Of course I don't begrudge china their time at the top (not that they haven't been there before...) but rather I'm scared by the uncertainty. Of course the future is uncertain by definition, but it particularly uncertain now. I'm not sure that even makes sense... As you can tell I'm very confused.
This kind of rambling 24/7 in my head was basically what caused me to stop thinking about it.
Hopefully in the near future when I've calmed down a bit, I'll be able to be more useful and work towards changing the path of the world, at least in some small way.