The future became less a thing we create through our present day choices or hopes for human kind, than a predestined scenary. The people who are making these things not only know that they're the cause, but they mean to escape at the same time. And they believe that our last best hope is to somehow double down and apply even more technocratic, totalizing solutions to our problems. We have the tools to do so in a way that yo never have before, right? Ther really is the potential to create a much more kind of collaborative, interdependent world,. where people dont no necessarily have to work sary ours and so on.
Have you ever found yourself sitting around a table at a luxury resort with five mega-rich strangers who want to know where you think they should build their doomsday bunkers? Absurd as it may sound, that actually happened to media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. Today on the show he explains why the 0.01 percent are obsessed with escaping climate change, global pandemics, political upheaval ... and us.
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