{"id":20690,"date":"2022-09-05T01:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T01:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=20690"},"modified":"2022-09-05T01:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T01:36:01","slug":"the-super-rich-and-the-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=20690","title":{"rendered":"the super rich and The Mindset…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\"\"<\/a><\/td>The super-rich \u2018preppers\u2019 planning to save themselves from the apocalypse | The super-rich | The Guardian<\/a>
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequenceswww.theguardian.com<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Excerpt from Guardian Observer article by Douglas Rushkoff<\/a><\/em> Sun 4 Sep 2022 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Silicon Valley escapism \u2013 let\u2019s call it The Mindset<\/strong> \u2013 encourages its adherents to believe that the winners can somehow leave the rest of us behind.<\/p>

Never before have our society\u2019s most powerful players assumed that the primary impact of their own conquests would be to render the world itself unliveable for everyone else. Nor have they ever before had the technologies through which to programme their sensibilities into the very fabric of our society. The landscape is alive with algorithms and intelligences actively encouraging these selfish and isolationist outlooks. Those sociopathic enough to embrace them are rewarded with cash and control over the rest of us. It\u2019s a self-reinforcing feedback loop. This is new.<\/p>

Amplified by digital technologies and the unprecedented wealth disparity they afford, The Mindset allows for the easy externalisation of harm to others, and inspires a corresponding longing for transcendence and separation from the people and places that have been abused.<\/p>

Instead of just lording over us for ever, however, the billionaires at the top of these virtual pyramids actively seek the endgame. In fact, like the plot of a Marvel blockbuster, the very structure of The Mindset<\/strong> requires <\/em>an endgame. Everything must resolve to a one or a zero, a winner or loser, the saved or the damned. Actual, imminent catastrophes from the climate emergency to mass migrations support the mythology, offering these would-be superheroes the opportunity to play out the finale in their own lifetimes. For The Mindset also includes a faith-based Silicon Valley certainty that they can develop a technology that will somehow break the laws of physics, economics and morality to offer them something even better than a way of saving the world: a means of escape from the apocalypse of their own making.<\/p> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Court Painter hired out of work acquaintances in a modest attempt to illustrate the roles of what he thinks the super rich life style is all about. Quite convincing I must say!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click link for article The super-rich \u2018preppers\u2019 planning to save themselves from the apocalypse | The super-rich | The Guardian Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequenceswww.theguardian.com \ue711 Excerpt from Guardian Observer article by … Continue reading “the super rich and The Mindset…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20690"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20756,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690\/revisions\/20756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}