The Greatest tyrants

The most sophisticated that technology becomes, the wider and deeper the chasm between the educated people and the under-educated). Scientific and technical knowledge is an important source of power (I assume that’s the origin of the Maoist logic behind the Cultural Revolution. Therefore the mass killings of educated people in Maoist China during the Cultural Revolution.) But only large institutions have the resources to exploit it, *(mega-corporations and the state.)

As a result scientists and professionals are the targets of these institutions.  They are corrupted by subtle bribes or outrageous open acts of greed and manipulation of the system in order to get whatever they want. For example pharmaceutical corporations have been given freebies to doctors in exchange for prescribing and promoting their drugs. Thus science is used to increase the power of the already powerful, and to frustrate the expectations of the powerless as well as removing them from the political process(this is happening right now in the U.S.) As I write these paragraphs the world is going through really weird times, spooky and sometimes bizarre.

The World in general and the USA, in particular, are in serious trouble; financial, economic, moral, political, ecological, epistemological, etc., etc. We are already 20 years into the 21st century, civilization and humanity seem to have reached the limits of growth *"TheLimits of growth" is a book published in 1972, based on a computer simulation study of the exponential growth of the economy and population, (notnecessarily parallel.)

The conclusions of this study have been continually disputed by its critics and its defenders. And this is because the study says that by the year 2070 both the population and the economy will reach their climax (it does not necessarily mean the peak.)

From that point on, everything will start to fall, to decrease, to cool down. In other words, *entropy will kick in.
The real bad news is; the economic and existential drag of *entropy is already here. The U.S. is already imploding under our eyes and our once envied society is dreaded worldwide for its horrendous record in health care, education system, social cohesion human rights and so on on.

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