Thursday, May 08, 2025

Zombie Apocalypse

We have a lot of bureaucracies thinking their job is to determine where to move large populations en masse. Another approach is give every camper a valid travel pass and an expense account (no, not open ended) and let them chart a course for themselves. Asylum Cities might try to recruit them, and might succeed in some cases, but there's no predicting in advance what the dispersal pattern will be.

However the Earthlings currently are trained to think in terms of fenced or walled off territories, with the portculus coming down on any unauthorized movements. You'll need some real ID and a credit score before privatized services, a long time ago public, let you onto their property. With everything privatized, the public has no space, and is expected to sign on with one oligarchy or another is a valued mercenary.

The idea of "nation state" as "holding pen" was popularized by such movies as Hunger Games and Punishment Park. The younger generation is desperate to get out from under the tyranny of oldsters, who've hardened their hearts over the years, calcified their thinking, and now steer with cold dead hands. 

Or call them corporations: unoccupied zombie hulks, long gone inside, but persisting as mega-donors and sponsors of Supreme Court Better Living [tm]. Such is our "democracy racket" today, designed to fool everyone always, but a failure in that respect. Many see through the ruse.

Most of the Palestinians I know are Americans and they have passports to travel back and forth to old haunts in Jordan or Kuwait or whatever places. I don't personally know any who are hankering to return to the Middle East in its present state of lawlessness and borderless no mans' lands. That's a hell hole to be escaped. 

But the United Nations seems content to run open air prisons indefinitely, because the alternative is to offer the privileges of nationhood (e.g. human rights) to the world's dispossessed, its undocumented, and this would be upsetting to the zombie class.

In allowing (a) giant corporations to be seen as people with human rights -- the right to lie included -- and (b) in allowing money to count as speech, such that those with the most money have the most speech, the legislating lawyer class destroyed the worth (the jurisdiction) of the English language, pretty much, in its default state. 

Not only is English a buggy junkyard of broken code, of course. We're all wrestling with the challenge of coding up some new protocols that won't repeat these egregious and thoughtless (actually highly premeditated) mistakes of past, long-gone, generations of naked ape who didn't know any better.