[ExI] Update on the Hawaiian observatory shutdown

[BillK]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 01:28, Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Going against passionate and hateful ethnics is not easy, unless you can nuke them from orbit. But, short of that, we good people should organize into a political pressure group, The Friends of Science, with a direct action arm called The Friends of Scientists. Hulking grad students, casually swinging their baseball bats, should accompany scientists as they walk through enemy lines to man (or woman) the telescopes. Make it into a show of force, don't pick fights but finish them.
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> Political success relies on PR and heavy boots, stomping on faces.
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What happens when everybody is protesting about something or other?
Hawaiian protests about land misuse.
Canary Islands environmental protesters.
4 Million worldwide climate change protesters.
Populist politics enraged protesters (for and against).
Protests about wealth inequality and ignored problems in society.
Protests about surveillance, online tracking, face recognition,
licence plate tracking, etc.
#MeToo protests.
And so on........

I get the impression that a large number of people feel that modern
society is going to hell in a handbasket.
The telescope protest might just be a small ripple in a tsunami of
upheaval about to break over society.


BillK