[ExI] Trump on ​linear induction motors ​

[Dan TheBookMan]

> On Thursday, June 29, 2017 2:48 PM spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> Presidents come and go, but the military stays long-term.  If a
> president demands a ship be retrofitted with a steam catapult,
> you can be sure the military will do something, even if not
> exactly what he had in mind, such as create an EM cat which
> blows off steam during the launch.  Meanwhile the bad guys
> think the USNavy is investing its resources in retrofitting
> carriers with 1950s-era steam catapults.  Once that president
> is gone, the admirals order the removal of the steam bottles
> mounted underneath the deck, toss them overboard, life goes on.

This actually fits into my earlier point about a radical critique of power* rather than focusing purely or mainly on who sits behind the desk. Much of government -- in other words, much of the abusive system of power -- steams on regardless of who's at the helm. Here, in my mind, people who merely want to put a different person behind the desk are not going to fundamentally change things. At best, we'll just see saw back and forth between bad and worse. And given the chance of a turnkey authoritarian state, that's a much bigger risk now. (Still, I'm optimistic. The Soviet empire really did fall. Our nightmares might be different today, but we can always decide to wake up.)

Regards,

Dan
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* Which is to say to abolish it as much as possible in society -- not to merely argue over who would marginally less appalling decisions as supreme leader.
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