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Deep Future #3: The Future of A.I. (2nd edition/edited - with Alexander Bard, Thomas Hamelryck, Jim Rutt and Alex Ebert)

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The Politics of Prohibition Without Ritual

The stream is going one way, going out of China and millions of people are leaving. Why? Because they can't stand the idea of living in the world with only prohibition in our ritual. That's what tyranny is. The scapegoat mechanism is ritual. I would say it's replacing ritual when it's completely arranged. It's that the dooma are going to declare homosexuality and psychiatric disease. Perfectly create scapegoats from the population itself. That's Putin's next game. This is what Thomas means with prohibition without ritual. And all we can do in this is create these little free spaces somewhere that are tantric realms or whatever that the government cannot control. We're heading there ready

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