<div dir="ltr">Since at least the French Revolution, the Academy has been consistently and ceaselessly warning us that unless they are given complete totalitarian autocratic control over all of human civilization, complete destruction is inevitable and imminent.<div><br></div><div>Ironically, the closest humanity has come to complete destruction during the last few centuries is when significant groups of people have listened to them.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 10:53 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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>...In effect his conclusion is that as tech and weapons become more powerful, freedom becomes too dangerous to allow.<br>
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The cool part about freedom is that it doesn't ask to be allowed. It allows itself. Freedom disallows anything that disallows freedom.<br>
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