Often times the problems and challenges we start out with in life shift over the course of our lifetimes. When I was a kid, the challenges I had were to stay in school and get good grades. When I joined the military my job was to do whatever I was told without hesitation or delay and always give 150%. When I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia, my challenge was to take my medication correctly. Now my biggest challenge is my health and diet.
This same concept is key to doing well in the future. We have to adapt to the world as it changes. Bigger changes are coming very soon. Just like the information revolution changed society so will the artificial intelligence revolution. The most lasting and fundamental changes will be social and political.
This process has already begun. Many people want the technology, but don’t like the social effects. Some want to regress back to the Cold War. Few would want to pay the price as they would also have to give up modern medicine and their cars for that.
Just making everything illegal that you believe is immoral can be done, but it would make us entirely a dictatorship like the ones we fought or allied with during the Cold War. The likely sources of the new government, which means people with elaborate preparations on a large scale would be cults, criminals, or others most people would be less happy with.
We want everything. We want cheap prices and very high quality products, which is why we produce everything in one place. The same companies and leaders who created the world economy now want to change it back, because they have decided they can make more money that way. It is too late.
What would happen now is we would lose everything we gained socially, financially, and militarily since the last century. We may even end up in the Stone Age, fighting over a piece of plastic, after a huge die off.
Some people think we can just choose what technology our lives are based on. This is what the Amish do, but they are entirely dependent on modern society because of that. Just because you grow your own food, generate your own electricity, and maybe even cut yourself off from the Internet, you still trade with others directly or indirectly. You are also enjoying the benefits of a stable society currently only possible with the Internet.
We are all part of a society, in which we both benefit from and accept the consequences of the decisions others make within. Many are not happy we are increasing our energy usage, when we should have been decreasing it, since at least the 1990s. Many are not ok with our country being managed by con artists.
Many do not want to fight a major war every 10 years. Many also do not want to fund hundreds of covert wars and crimes committed in other countries, constantly, behind the scenes, using dirty tricks. Many do not think we should support Israel unconditionally, when they have not needed our help for decades.
Many did not want to further bankrupt ourselves financing a second private military of the president. This private military is also operating at the scale that it alone is bigger than most nations primary militaries. Also, sending in troops for security, in our own country or declaring martial law is publicly admitting we are not a democracy.
There are solutions beyond just creating more laws or spending more money on security. These measures are just treating the symptoms. The underlying cause is a lack of trust. The trust has been broken because of how we run our empire overseas and that our rules are only enforced on poor people.
No one is supposed to be above the law in our country. They are now bragging about this openly. If you call others immoral and you act immorally, you are going to get called on it, until it is clear to everyone that we are no longer living in a democracy.
My generation neither created the Internet nor released it to the public. The reason it is so hard to impossible to change this is that computers and the Internet have been built very deep into the infrastructure. A similar level of infrastructure keeps us dependent on cars, even if we do not own one ourselves.
There are many stupid uses of the Internet, which make many of our companies a lot of money. When we are referring to infrastructure, we are not talking about social media. Although some of those same companies also sell very important infrastructure to businesses and governments, but this is not advertised to the general public.
Businesses and governments of all kinds and levels heavily use the Internet and computers, because there are no other options now and it saved them loads of money. Computers now make everything, ship everything, and power everything. They are now as necessary as oil and it would be less expensive and quicker to get off of oil than computers.
This all happened in the period following World War II and now is being extended into artificial intelligence. It is the reason why we won World War II and the Cold War. It is the same reason why the Russians have invested so much in hacking since the Cold War.
What we see now is the evolution of the military industrial complex. There is now little distinction between governments, criminals, and businesses.
-- December 2025