The global economy has a broner. Please allow me to explain. Conflict resources are traded on Wall Street faster than you can say “virtue signaling.” Legions of the brightest young male econ grads, aka finance bros, march rank and file down the prestigous corridors of venture firms with massive finance boners, high fiving their way with year end bonuses, on shiny white yachts, with top-shelf-escorts, plowing through the mostly turquoise seas of dopamine addiction. Senior viagra partners, the slightly grayer finance bros, keep the big-bank-bailouts cozy with the DC “real-polity” and keep enough middle-class-pension-funds mired in their bloody- casino-math-logic which guarantees a perfect flustercluck of intelectual dissonance amongst the American people who spend their lives with golden handcuffs manacled to the logic of the system yet keep their course heading on status quo retirement because over time “the stock market always goes up.” Best not rock the boat.
Welcome to the broner. Recently R@ytheon execs blundered during sales calls ‘peace not going to break out soon’ and ‘solid growth in the middle east.’ Bombs are flying off the shelf. War is good for business. War is good for the American Economy. Always has been….. Always will be?!?
Anyone that has extricated themselves from the dopamine short-circuitry, i.e. cultivated an inner mindfulness long enough to see this big picture clearly is left to wonder, beyond a shadow of a doubt we have the technical capacity and cultural will to build a global economy built on vital healthy food, clean water and democratic virtues yet….. how do we subdue this ancient murder/beast henceforth to be called “The Broner”?
Well obviously with AI/ML right? It’s a fully programmable, supra-human algorithm of logic and clearly a war economy is just a bad idea, we’ve been trying for a terribly long time and its just not working. So many desperately poor extremists that want to murder us, what a hassle. Too many bloodstains. Increased demand for transparency and accountability. Time for some global cooling.
Ok here’s the big idea, ready?! —-> Penance-bots. Penance bots scrape data from NSF servers to map who’s profiting from the spilled blood of the innocent and instead of building prisons, they build ecosystem restoration camps where wars have ravaged the earth; earth-based penance.
Prophet-bots from the Holy Texts will of course constantly remind the sinners about their commitments regarding, murder and greed, true vs signaled virtue, etc. If the profiteers happen to be atheist or agnostic they can pick any avatar of any role model they look up to. Maybe its Leonardo Dicaprio or Jennifer Aniston, the Pope, Messi, Stephen Curry, sky’s the limit here?
In legal parlance the EPA would call this “mitigation” and indeed AI/ML is really good at administering the endless logistical nuance of law so even though this project might sound impossibly complex, fear not, it’s a win-win-win scenario, people win, earth wins and robots win. Sinners are relieved of their morally depraved and meaningless life of sin and allowed to reweave their connection to place and the sense of purpose and belonging that goes with it.
Reversal of marine dead zones, the ubiquity of drinkable rivers, the renaissance of biodiversity and communities everywhere celebrating good health and nutritious food will be the inevitable byproducts.
May the force of fully automated biocentrism be with you.
