Exponential Growth in Technology

The Good:

All Technology, tools, help us do more.

The Evil:

We've Evolved from some soupy substance millions of years ago.




You see, they operate on the following:

Genesis 3:22
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Transhumanism Update "Cyberwarfare" - 05.23.2014

Cyberwarfare
Cyberwarfare is politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage. It is a form of information warfare sometimes seen as analogous to conventional warfare.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare

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Darpa Is Weaponizing Oculus Rift for Cyberwar
BY ANDY GREENBERG   05.23.14  |   6:30 AM 


A Darpa contractor showing off the Oculus Rift cyberwar simulation at the Pentagon’s Darpa Demo Day. Photo: Andy Greenberg/WIRED

For the last two years, Darpa has been working to make waging cyberwar as easy as playing a video game. Now, like so many other games, it’s about to get a lot more in-your-face.

At the Pentagon Wednesday, the armed forces’ far-out research branch known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency showed off its latest demos for Plan X, a long-gestating software platform designed to unify digital attack and defense tools into a single, easy-to-use interface for American military hackers. And for the last few months, that program has had a new toy: The agency is experimenting with using the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset to give cyberwarriors a new way to visualize three-dimensional network simulations–in some cases with the goal of better targeting them for attack.

“You’re not in a two-dimensional view, so you can look around the data. You look to your left, look to your right, and see different subnets of information,” Darpa’s Plan X program manager Frank Pound told WIRED in an interview. “With the Oculus you have that immersive environment. It’s like you’re swimming in the internet.”

In its demo setup, complete with two motion-sensing Razer Hydra controllers for navigation, the user does more than swim. As captured in the video below showing an Oculus user’s view, Darpa’s proof-of-concept begins with a collection of “missions” to choose from, each of which is represented by a spherical network of computers. Select one, and you’re presented with a planned series of actions to carry out–like scanning a certain network or probing target endpoints for vulnerabilities–and a collection of tools to use, represented by different abstract icons. Then you’re thrown into the network to carry out the mission, while the enemy launches attacks like distributed-denial-of-service bombardments back at the user.

If all of that seems more than a little contrived, Pound admits that the Oculus demo is only a “notional” proof-of-concept, created by the San Francisco design firm Frog Design and the Austin-based simulation software company Intific. But Darpa is serious about integrating the virtual-reality headset into its plans; It’s already shown the Oculus to Congress and to the Pentagon’s Joint Chief of Staffs in private demonstrations, and will be experimenting further with the second developer version of the device set to be released later this summer.

If Plan X’s Oculus software ever reaches the eyeballs of actual soldiers–a development that Darpa says is still years away–Pound doesn’t deny that the interface would be used for actual offensive hacking as well as defense and reconnaissance. Like the rest of Plan X, he says it’s meant to be a simpler and more intuitive way for the U.S. Cyber Command and other American military hackers to visualize everything they do in their cyberwar operations. “Think of Plan X like an aircraft carrier,” says Pound. “It can carry any weapon system or capability.”

That sort of admission will no doubt set off alarm bells for critics of the American military’s increasingly aggressive posture on the Internet. The revelation in 2012 that the United States created the Iran-targeted Stuxnet malware and a year of Edward Snowden’s leaks have already demonstrated that the NSA engages in more advanced cyberattack operations than practically any country on the planet. Enabling American hackers to launch those attacks with a tool that’s literally designed for video games could be seen as encouraging a brazen attitude towards cyberwar, disconnecting it from the reality of its consequences.

But Darpa’s Pound counters that safeguards against reckless hacking will be built into Plan X, and that it may actually reduce collateral damage from military cyberattacks by allowing soldiers to better understand the networks they’re attacking.

“Say we want to turn out the lights in some place where we have boots on the ground, but it’s on a subnet connected to a hospital,” Pound says. “We want to war-game that kind of situation with high assurance, to be able to tell a commander that you can use this capability in this manner and you’ll have a 99.99% chance of not failing…The Oculus works hand-in-hand with that war-gaming technology.”


Another Plan X demo using a 52-inch touchscreen interface. Photo: Andy Greenberg/WIRED

Darpa’s Plan X, a massive project that includes contractor giants like Raytheon BBN and Northrup Grumman, is designed to produce new interfaces that make cyberwar operations accessible to its growing number of less-technical cybersecurity recruits. After all, the Pentagon is currently working to hire thousands of digital warriors to fill out its ranks, and many of them may not be familiar with using a command line, let alone writing code. “The genre of people that Cyber Command are working to recruit are fresh out of high school and college,” says Pound. “They’re going to grow up with Oculus on their head. We want to adapt to provide that kind of interface.”

Plan X is set to run through 2017, and it’s unlikely that its Oculus software or any other interface will be deployed before then. By the time it is implemented, Pound admits, Oculus may have already evolved into something very different. In fact, he says Darpa has already been briefed on new features of upcoming Oculus devices that he declined to describe.

But Darpa, which over the last several decades took the lead on the developing technologies like the internet, GPS, and unmanned aerial vehicles, has always been tasked with focusing on the future more than the present. Pound says experimenting with Oculus now is meant to prepare the agency for whatever it becomes. “It’s Darpa’s charter to take these cutting edge technologies and see how they apply to military operations,” he says. “I can’t predict what the Oculus will look like in a few years. But this is Darpa. We’ll be ready to take it on.”

here:
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/darpa-is-using-oculus-rift-to-prep-for-cyberwar/

Did NBC Claim All Americans Will Be Implanted With Microchips For Obamacare?

Short answer, No.

Long answer:

This is what happens when "Patriots" decide that they want to just believe something.

NBC Claims All Americans Will Be Implanted With Microchips For Obamacare

Recently, NBC predicted that in 2017, we will all be tagged with microchip, implanted to help identify individuals immediately. According to the report, the technology is used to answer one question, “Am I who I say I am?”

Some worry, however, that the RFID Microchip will give the government too much power, allowing them to track every move. In some states, like Virginia, legislation is in process to stop his from happening.

The report also reveals an RFID Brain Chip that has been developed and is currently being tested on several humans.

What do you think? Is this wrong?

found on this doodoo site:
http://theuspatriot.com/2014/04/28/nbc-claims-all-americans-will-be-implanted-with-microchips-for-obamacare/

I've already cracked open the lie concerning the new health care law:
"RFID implant chip by 03/23/2013 proven and cracked open - 02.09.2013"

I'll be reposting this to my blog.

For now, I'll only show you how this recent article is clearly false.
Notice, this really sources nothing.

That MSNBC report has nothing do with "Obamacare", and its been news since 2007.

link was posted here:

posted on May, 15 2007 @ 08:26 PM
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread282732/pg1

here's the report from 2007:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18664322/ns/nbc_nightly_news_with_brian_williams/t/what-will-world-look/#.U39FU3VdXs0

this from 2004:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6237364/ns/health-health_care/t/fda-approves-computer-chip-humans/#.U39EGHVdXs0

So, no, the lie about "obamacare" being a tool for the mark is a lie.

Oh, there is one video being re-uploaded concerning RFID:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YJsxMcAJoA

However, it does not mention the health care, I know because I originally downloaded it years ago, it's in my video archive.

read my old email concerning this, here:
"RFID implant chip by 03/23/2013 proven and cracked open"
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/05/rfid-implant-chip-by-03232013-proven.html

RFID implant chip by 03/23/2013 proven and cracked open

There's an email being sent to out, a chain letter:

"Are you ready to have your RFID Chip Implanted? 3/23/2013 is your date!"

its even found here:

Obamacare Micro Chip Implant Coming March 23, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013 6:50
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/02/obamacare-micro-chip-implant-coming-march-23-2013-2559218.html

I have already covered this before, so while digging online to update my research, I found an interesting break down of the truth on this.

I've cleaned up his article, to make it readable.

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Debunked: Obamacare RFID Chip Implant Law Hoax

There's a hoax going around that the health care reform act HR3200 (The Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare") requires everyone to get a chip implanted in their body.

The bottom line is:

The proposed law did not require anyone to get anything implanted
It just created a national registry of a huge of range of medical devices from pacemakers to dental implants
The intent of the registry was to collect statistics on how safe and effective the devices are
HR3200 is not the bill that passed. That's HR 3590, which does not have the registry.

An implantable RFID chip is just one example of a class II implantable medical device. Others include:
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1681045-overview

    percutaneous catheters
    vascular graft prostheses
    bone-conduction hearing aids
    tympanostomy tubes
    gastrointestinal tubes
    implantable staples
    long-term intravascular catheters
    intracranial pressure monitor devices
    peripheral nerve stimulators for pain relief
    eye sphere implants
    intramedullary fixation rods
    joint prostheses

Here's the original bill (which did not ever become law):

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3200ih/pdf/BILLS-111hr3200ih.pdf

And here's what it says:

SEC. 2521. NATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICE REGISTRY.
[...]
‘‘(g)(1) The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that—
‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; and
‘‘(B) is—
‘‘(i) a class III device; or
‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining
There's a little more about administrative things, but the above is the entirety of what the conspiracy promoters base their theory on. They get away with it in part because the language of the bill is rather complex and difficult to read, so they can basically make up whatever interpretation they like, and many of their readers will be fooled.

They then build upon this by claiming that a Class II device is a

"implantable radiofrequency transponder system for patient identification and health information."

When actually the three classes of medical devices have nothing to do with what the devices are, but are to do with how much they are regulated to ensure safety. For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_device#United_States

Examples of Class III devices include implantable pacemaker, pulse generators, HIV diagnostic tests, automated external defibrillators, and endosseous implants.

Examples of Class II devices include powered wheelchairs, infusion pumps, and surgical drapes.

Examples of Class I devices include elastic bandages, examination gloves, and hand-held surgical instruments.

So the law simply creates a registry for this HUGE range of different medical devices.

Implantable RFID chips would be covered under the law, but that's simply because they are one of thousands of devices that are classified as Type III or Type II implantable.

It's not a law, and even if it was, it no more mandates you get a chip implanted than it mandates you get a hip replacement.

This has also been quite well debunked over on Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/microchip.asp

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I found this guys break-down here:
http://metabunk.org/threads/497-Debunked-Obamacare-RFID-Chip-Implant-Law-Hoax

========================= my research is found below

Health care reform in the United States

"Health care reform in the United States has a long history. This article covers two federal statutes enacted in 2010: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed March 23, 2010,[1][2] and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872), which amended the PPACA and became law on March 30."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_reform_in_the_United_States

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Senate bill - H.R. 3590)
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3590eas/pdf/BILLS-111hr3590eas.pdf

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872)
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr4872rh/pdf/BILLS-111hr4872rh.pdf

The only thing in this bill that is going to break this nation, is that fact that you will have to obtain some form of health insurance.

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The Latest Healthcare Rumor: Microchip Implants
September 8, 2009 - by Donny Shaw

There’s a new rumor going around about the Democrats’ healthcare bill that’s so absurd and off-base that I hesitate to even bring it up here in order to debunk it. The rumor, which is being spread mostly in online forums and hasn’t yet received any kind of validation from a national political figure, is that the bill would require all Americans to get a microchip embedded in their body so the government can track them.

Or, at least, I think that’s what they are claiming. I’ve seen a few variations, including claims that everyone would need to get the microchips, only people who enroll in the public option would have to get it, and that the bill doesn’t require the implants, but it leaves it open to the government to decide after it is passed if they want to require them. You can view forum threads on the topic here, here, here and here, for examples. The rumor first came to my attention when someone wrote into the OpenCongress Facebook group asking for information on it.

The portion of text people have been referencing to support their claims can be read here, in Title V, Subtitle C – “National Medical Device Registry.” If you read the actual bill text, it’s very clear that this microchip rumor is just completely made up.

What this section of the bill actually does is call on the Secretary of Health and Human Services to “establish a national medical device registry to facilitate analysis of post-market safety and outcomes data” on all Class III medical devices and all “implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining” Class II medical devices that have been used on a patient. In other words, it establishes a registry designed to gather data on the effectiveness and safety of the most highly-regulated medical devices.

more here:
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/1202-The-Latest-Healthcare-Rumor-Microchip-Implants

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Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff - Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Implantable Radiofrequency Transponder System for Patient Identification and Health Information
Document issued on: December 10, 2004
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/ucm072141.htm

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Health Law Myths: Outside The Realm Of Reality
by Julie Rovner

September 3, 2010

With a law as long and as complex as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it's natural people are still a little confused about what it does and doesn't do. But some things being said or circulated on the Internet about the health law are well outside the realm of reality.

It turns out, though, that many of these more outlandish claims have at least some basis in truth. Here are some of the more popular myths about the law and the fact that gave rise to them.

    The law requires people who want public health insurance to be implanted with a microchip.
    The law creates a new "private army" for President Obama.
    The law requires the hiring of 16,500 new, armed Internal Revenue Service Agents.
    The law requires you to begin to paying taxes on your health insurance next year.
    The law dictates what you can and can't eat.
    The law requires hospitals to fire obese employees.

the rumors and other non-sense, here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129581493

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Learn if a Medical Device Has Been Cleared by FDA for Marketing

Before you begin researching the status of a medical device, you should first know some general information that will assist you in your search.

The Medical Device Amendments of 1976 to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act established three regulatory classes for medical devices. The three classes are based on the degree of control necessary to assure the various types of devices are safe and effective.

Class I – These devices present minimal potential for harm to the user and are often simpler in design than Class II or Class III devices. Examples include enema kits and elastic bandages. 47% of medical devices fall under this category and 95% of these are exempt from the regulatory process.

Class II – Most medical devices are considered Class II devices. Examples of Class II devices include powered wheelchairs and some pregnancy test kits. 43% of medical devices fall under this category.

----> Class III – These devices usually sustain or support life, are implanted, or present potential unreasonable risk of illness or injury. Examples of Class III devices include implantable pacemakers and breast implants. 10% of medical devices fall under this category.

Exempt – If a device falls into a generic category of exempted Class I devices, a premarket notification application and FDA clearance is not required before marketing the device in the U.S. However, the manufacturer is required to register their establishment and list their generic product with FDA. Examples of exempt devices are manual stethoscopes, mercury thermometers and bedpans.

http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm142523.htm

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U.S. Health Reform Plan Does Not Call for RFID Tracking
Posted By Mark Roberti, 12.08.2009

I did a search for "Sub Title C-11 Sec:2521" on Google, and found many posts essentially saying the same thing. I also found the text of both the House bill and the Senate bill, and there is no "Sub Title C-11 Sec:2521."

There is, however, a section on a national medical device registry (Sub Title C, Section 2561), which reads:

"The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the 'registry') to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that (a) is or has been used in or on a patient; and (b) is...a device that is implantable, life supporting or life-sustaining."

So basically, the bill put forth by the U.S. House of Representatives wants to track the results of these devices and link them to a registry so a doctor looking to implant a device in a patient can check whether it actually worked in previous patients who received the device. There is no mention of RFID, and no mention of tracking individuals who receive the device.

more here:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/blog/entry/7258

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in other news....

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Britain passes law requiring that dogs get microchips by 2016
Adario StrangeThursday, February 7, 2013 - 12:24pm



In the U.S., inserting a microchip into your beloved pet as a means to keep track of it is still viewed as something of a luxury usually employed by only the most devoted pet owners. But now a new law in the U.K. will make the practice of chipping your dog a requirement by 2016.

The U.K.-government initiative came about as a means to control the exploding number of stray dogs on the nation's streets, which number somewhere in the range of 110,000. According to the government's figures, roughly 60 percent of the nation's pet dogs are already carrying chip implants. The chip, which is about the size of a grain of rice, is generally implanted somewhere on the back of the neck or between the shoulders of the pet and files the animal in a national database.

After the new law goes into effect, pet owners who don't chip and register their dogs will face the possibility of a fine of up to $785. Interestingly, the law even accounts for possible changes in pet ownership by requiring that the chip's registration details be changed to reflect the new owner's details upon transfer, essentially making owning a pet in the U.K. akin to owning a car.

Of course, some view these new chipping rules as a precursor to the eventual mandatory chipping of humans at birth, and just last year an email hoax spread throughout the U.S. promoting the false notion that Obamacare somehow included mandatory chipping of humans.

Despite the seemingly outlandish nature of such urban myths, as microchip implants become ever more useful, it's worth considering what a future in which similar chipping laws for humans are mandatory, or perhaps even popular and voluntary, might look like. DARPA has already revealed plans to implant soldiers with diagnostic nanochip implants.

more here:
http://www.dvice.com/2013-2-7/britain-passes-law-requiring-dogs-get-microchips-2016

source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/06/dogs-england-microchipped-2016

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Why did I send this out?
Because I've seen over the past few years, a lot of misinformation making it into our church.
No way I'm sitting quite on this one.

I mean really.

Is the IRS scandal Real Tyranny?

I am in no way supporting pot smoking, apply the context.
The only thing happening with the IRS thing is, the law states that no political group should receive a tax exemptions.

read the law:

501(c)(4)

501(c)(4) organizations are generally civic leagues and other corporations operated exclusively for the promotion of "social welfare", such as civics and civics issues, or local associations of employees with membership limited to a designated company or people in a particular municipality or neighborhood, and with net earnings devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes.[35] An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting the common good and general welfare of the people of the community.[36]

more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29_organization#501.28c.29.284.29

So technically, they should have been denied, but were approved.

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msnbc - four times as many blacks are arrested for pot more than whites - real tyranny


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Also:

Conservative groups testify of harassment by IRS

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), an icon of the civil rights movement, also noted that the IRS had been led by Republican appointees for the past decade. He asked “where was the outrage” when progressive groups and organizations like the NAACP were targeted during the Bush administration.

more here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-conservative-groups-irs-harassment-20130604,0,1153245.story

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Democrats offer new evidence that IRS targeted progressive groups
By Josh Hicks, Published: July 12 at 6:00 am



Cliff Owen/AP – Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.).

The House Oversight committee’s top Democrat on Friday will release new evidence that the Internal Revenue Service targeted both progressive and conservative groups for extra scrutiny during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said in a draft letter to committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif) that congressional investigators have discovered training materials from an July 2010 “Screening Workshop” that prove IRS agents were told to be on the lookout for groups from both sides of the political spectrum.

A PowerPoint presentation from the workshop told IRS processors to screen for names that look like “tea party,” “patriots,” ” 9/12 Project,” and “progressive.” It noted that such groups ”may be more than 50% political,” which could disqualify them from tax-exempt status.

Minutes from the training session show that the IRS also instructed agents who had doubts about those groups to “err on the side of caution and transfer to 7822,” an IRS office in Cincinnati that reviewed applications for tax-exemption.

An audit by IRS inspector general J. Russell George found that the agency inappropriately targeted groups based on ideology rather than looking for politically neutral signs of campaign activity.

all source info and more, here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/07/12/democrats-offer-new-evidence-that-irs-targeted-progressive-groups/

The only person in the media covering this the correct way, was this this guy:

Lawrence O'Donnell

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/13/odonnell-the-real-irs-scandal-happened-in-1959/

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/16/odonnell-reminds-politicians-of-the-real-irs-scandal/

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/06/25/lawrence-odonnell-urges-viewers-to-sign-irs-petition-on-white-house-website/

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/08/odonnell-the-washington-media-continues-to-fail-in-its-coverage-of-the-irs-non-scandal/

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/06/12/issa-attacks-cummings-instead-of-releasing-irs-transcripts/

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The real scandal is no one was supposed to receive any kind of 501(c)4 tax break for being political.

I think this left/right paradigm is about to explode, destroying the gop, and leaving us with an obvious socialist party.

VA hospital scandal is not a new scandal

It's an old distraction, watch the following video:

Rachel Maddow 05/21/14
Chronic VA problems lost in lip service to vets
Rachel Maddow reports on the long history of problems veterans have had with the V.A. and wonders if it’s a question of resources or leadership or something else as Washington flails in outrage.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/lip-service-to-vets-misses-systemic-problems-262858819758


FALSE, you did vote for them:



TRUE, you've taken and you like it:



All wars lead to World Government.

A World without Borders - "If you don't have everybody, you really have nobody" -- Thomas Friedman

The End of Nation States May Enhance Humanity
 
Harry J. Bentham
H+ Mag.

Posted: Feb 6, 2014



Perhaps parallel to the physical enhancement of human ability and longevity through technology, enhancements to civilization must also have cultural and political forms. By far the most important of these could be the neglect and final dissolution of borders and “nations”.

An encouraging prediction repeatedly nodded towards by futurists and scientific figures of all schools has been the end of the nation-state as the default regime. This departure from barriers and disparities is certainly features in the promises of revolutionary new technologies.

For example:

We are moving toward a borderless world in which electrons and electromagnetic waves will carry digitized information here, there and everywhere. Borne upon those waves of information, life will move at the speed of light. (J. Craig Venter)

The interpretation that the world is getting more open and less hospitable to narrow national interests is increasingly accepted, and has been consistently supplied as a very cogent and useful theory by top sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, e.g. in Utopistics(1998). It must be specified that this particular theory of the nation-state’s demise is based on history, with the observation that the French Revolution disseminated most modern assumptions about legitimate political action and authority.

The construction of “peoples” and “nations” to support the designs of governments and their claims to territory since the French Revolution has been commonplace, in accord with the expectations created by this defining political event. Perhaps a crueler way of putting it would be that nation-states and the beliefs legitimizing them are similarly fictive to religions, as easily offended by insults to their idols, and altogether as restrictive an influence on human advancement and freedom.

Of course, the main objections to fanatical nation-states have focused on their responsibility for causing devastating wars. However, the analysis of declining state legitimacy needs not be part of an emotional plea for an end to war. It is the observation that the physics and technologies of current civilization, as a result of them being favorable to transparency, freedom of expression and movement, eliminate any further need for the state to serve the role it once occupied.

Migration, resulting from the development of better means of transport and easier connections across the world, is a “disintegrating” influence on modern nation-states. As countries stretch the definition of citizenship to accommodate increasing migrant populations, citizenship is destined to lose its function of excluding people. With this crisis, it is destined to extinguish itself as a means of privileging people.

It is important to note that the whole idea of citizenship has been about supplying privileges, creating a dichotomy of citizen and non-citizen as a means of exclusion. As rhetorically effective as the description “citizen of the world” sounds, it could never serve any political or legal purpose and would quickly be dissolved (like a prize or honor being awarded to everyone at birth). This makes it impossible that any concept of citizenship could survive the elimination of nation-states in favor of the inclusion of the whole human family in a larger democratic order.

The revelation that the decisive rejection of nation-state regimes is a fact of the political future is the result of strong scholarly observations of history and politics. Due to this validation, the rejection of nation-state legitimacy and moral authority in favor of human conscience can be expected to become more and more commonplace in political discourse.

Political viewpoints that reject the legitimacy of nation-states, like my columns republished in Flagless: Accepting the End of Nations, aim to contribute to the discussion by encouraging steady and nuanced departures from nation-state beliefs and prejudices. The primary benefits of this political change that readers are often drawn to are the likely immense refinements of human rights, democracy and equality into more meaningful forms that would be possible without the disgraced framework of nation-states. As the discourse on the inexorable weaknesses of nation-state regimes under the new pressures of modernity becomes popularized, more valuable voices may begin to conceive of possible alternative regimes to the nation-state.



When taking an open-minded stance on the future, one must be prepared to let go of what is familiar. We must even be prepared to let go of what is reassuring in favor of what is strange, while at the same time being cognizant of any risks to society involved in long-term change. As transhumanism entails the view that there is something else possible beyond being “human”, I hold that it is similarly prescient to prepare to let go of the flags and myths of “nations”.

Ideally, no post-human scenario will include the survival of “nations” and the myths they have required to gain support and credibility. For this reason, encouragement of a political vision divorced from archaic ideas about national legitimacy and citizenship may be an indispensable part of humanity’s offer to transform.

found here:
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/bentham20140206

sources:

Utopistics by Immanuel Wallerstein (1998) – Book Review
· September 4, 2013
AUTHOR: HARRY J. BENTHAM
http://hplusmagazine.com/2013/09/04/utopistics-by-immanuel-wallerstein-1998-book-review/

Utopistics: Or Historical Choices of the Twenty-First Century Paperback
by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
http://www.amazon.com/Utopistics-Historical-Choices-Twenty-First-Century/dp/1565844572

The Inevitable Demise of the Nation-State
by Harry J. Bentham / January 28th, 2014
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/01/the-inevitable-demise-of-the-nation-state/

Flagless: Accepting the End of Nations [Kindle Edition]
Harry J. Bentham
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I30BM6A

Relevant video: