Skip to content

KHANNEA

She/Her – ☿ – Cosmist – Cosmicist – Succubus Fetishist – Transwoman – Lilithian – TechnoGaianist – Transhumanist – Living in de Pijp, Amsterdam – Left-Progressive – Kinkster – Troublemaker – 躺平 – Wu Wei. – Anti-Capitalist – Antifa Sympathizer – Boutique Narcotics Explorer – Salon Memeticist – Neo-Raver – Swinger – Alû Halfblood – Socialist Extropian – Coolhunter – TechnoProgressive – Singularitarian – Exochiphobe (phobic of small villages and countryside) – Upwinger – Dystopia Stylist – Cyber-Cosmicist – Slut (Libertine – Slaaneshi Prepper – Ordained Priestess of Kopimi. — 夢魔/魅魔 – Troublemaker – 躺平 – 摆烂 – 無爲 – Wu Wei – mastodon.social/@Khannea – google.com, pub-8480149151885685, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0

Menu
  • – T H E – F A R – F R O N T I E R –
  • Alignments
  • Dancing with the Devil on Prednisone: A Cluster Headache Pre-Event Modulation Trial under Extreme Triggers
  • My Political Positions
  • Shaping the Edges of the Future
  • Some Of My Art
  • “Stop the Spiral” – My Official Conversion Therapy Councelling Service
Menu

95% does not [anywhere near] win

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Khannea Sun'Tzu

Probably 99%. We live in a world where the total profits are maximized by a climate of competition. Right now we (except me) are all stuck venerating thic paradigm of competition (and exclusion, scarcity, disparity, envy, exhaustion, depletion) to the point of it being a religion. That the world is simply not functioning (ehh “sustainable”) stares us in the face but we won’t abandon the underlying premise – the competition based paradigm remains sacrosanct. Even if you spell it out for the shills, they shake their heads vehemently – ‘free markets are necesary to maintain our standards of living’.

Are they?

For some to win, many must lose. I’d replace that with – the only thing left to 95% of humanity is hope. But we are in a crisis now, and the positive thing is that people who are in a crisis are sometimes forced in to self-reflection. The inevitable conclusion for many is – we don’t get even, we don’t get ahead, we don’t win. An worse, in a climate of resource constraints and collapsing infrastructures and natural resources and well, literally a collapsing climate we end up with those who already have, feeling empowered to rake in even more. And that literally means less for anyone else.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59OJ17raqWw&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

Let me spell it out for you – everyone wants to live the good life. Everyone (at least those who can, and still have aspirations) will have some sort of ambitions. Many will even have realistic ambitions, or expectations. To this end they enter a deal with those in power, and work hard. Most people who work hard can have a comfortable life – not all mind you.

But this isn’t happening right now. So – is this system we live in the best possible arrangement we could have? Or is it just a historical artefact?

Post navigation

← The Witch Hunting Gene
Being against life extension →

Hi there. I am khannea – transhumanist, outspoken transgender, libertine and technoprogressive. You may email me at khannea.suntzu@gmail.com.

 

Tags

Animal Cruelty Anon Artificial Intelligence Automation BioMedicine BitCoin Cinematography Collapse Degeneracy and Depravity Facebook Gaga Gangster Culture Humor Idiocracy Intelligence (or lack thereoff) Ivory Towers Khannea Larry Niven Life Extension MetaVerse Monetary Systems Moore's Law Peak Oil Philosophy Politics Poverty Prometheus Psychology Real Politiek Revolution Science Fiction Second Life Singularity social darwinism Societal Disparity Space Industrialization Speculative Bubbles Taboo Uncategorized UpWing US Von Clausewitz White Rabbit Wild Allegories Youtube

Pages

  • – T H E – F A R – F R O N T I E R –
  • Alignments
  • Dancing with the Devil on Prednisone: A Cluster Headache Pre-Event Modulation Trial under Extreme Triggers
  • My Political Positions
  • Shaping the Edges of the Future
  • Some Of My Art
  • “Stop the Spiral” – My Official Conversion Therapy Councelling Service

Blogroll

  • Adam Something
  • Amanda's Twitter
  • Art Station
  • Climate Town
  • Colin Furze
  • ContraPoints
  • David Pakman
  • David Pearce
  • Don Giulio Prisco
  • Erik Wernquist
  • Humanist Report
  • IEET
  • Isaac Arthur
  • Jake Tran
  • Kyle Hill
  • Louis C K
  • My G+
  • My Youtube
  • Orions Arm
  • PBS Space Time
  • Philosophy Tube
  • Reddit
  • Second Thought
  • Shuffle Dance (et.al.)
  • The Young Turks
  • What Da Math

Archives

Blogroll

  • The Young Turks
  • Climate Town
  • Shuffle Dance (et.al.)
  • My G+
  • Art Station
  • Orions Arm
  • IEET
  • Louis C K
  • Erik Wernquist
  • Colin Furze
  • Amanda's Twitter
  • Don Giulio Prisco
  • Reddit
  • My Youtube
  • Philosophy Tube
  • ContraPoints
  • Humanist Report
  • PBS Space Time
  • Jake Tran
  • What Da Math
  • Second Thought
  • David Pakman
  • Adam Something
  • Kyle Hill
  • Isaac Arthur
  • David Pearce

Pages

  • – T H E – F A R – F R O N T I E R –
  • Alignments
  • Dancing with the Devil on Prednisone: A Cluster Headache Pre-Event Modulation Trial under Extreme Triggers
  • My Political Positions
  • Shaping the Edges of the Future
  • Some Of My Art
  • “Stop the Spiral” – My Official Conversion Therapy Councelling Service

Tags

Animal Cruelty Anon Artificial Intelligence Automation BioMedicine BitCoin Cinematography Collapse Degeneracy and Depravity Facebook Gaga Gangster Culture Humor Idiocracy Intelligence (or lack thereoff) Ivory Towers Khannea Larry Niven Life Extension MetaVerse Monetary Systems Moore's Law Peak Oil Philosophy Politics Poverty Prometheus Psychology Real Politiek Revolution Science Fiction Second Life Singularity social darwinism Societal Disparity Space Industrialization Speculative Bubbles Taboo Uncategorized UpWing US Von Clausewitz White Rabbit Wild Allegories Youtube

Archives

© 2025 KHANNEA | Powered by Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme