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Parent Post: Randm Thoughts 6
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saarnok
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10/11/2026, 1:28:42 AM
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The idea of "gods" playing as humans has a certain self aggrandizing feel to it that doubtless is alluring to some even as it generates an automatic revulsion in others. The more likely assumption it seems to me is indulgent, shiftless beings utilizing technology they couldn't possibly understand, just as we do ourselves. We tend to imagine ourselves the hyper-capable colossus of comprehension when in point of fact, not one of us could plausibly develop a supply chain for pencils, let alone semiconductors. Less than one out of a thousand even knows from direct experience how virtually anything technologically relates to anything else. We are not ants in an anthill to an alien species: We're ants in an anthill to our own species. Less than one out of a million of us actually knows how anything truly important relates to much of anything at all. We not only don't know how those things relate; we don't even know what those important things are. How many people are aware that the entire world's chip supply depends on the purity of a sand deposit here in the US? Almost no one. How many know that nitrogen fertilizer is dependent on natural gas? Again. Almost no one. How many people know that the world's supply of phosphate is essentially just a band of desert controlled by Morocco? How many people know that potash is mined practically everywhere except the US? NPK It feeds the world right now. It's more important than every other consideration combined. And that's factoring in that China by itself can actually destroy and is actively destroying international fish populations. We have a strong tendency to pay attention to what we're told to pay attention to. Most of which is irrelevant political theatre.
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