The late Jerry Pournelle used to say that the L-5 (and later National Space) Society was the advanced-planning department for the human race. He knew that NASA wasn't going to do it.
I used to assume that governments had secret teams of experts proactively scanning the horizon for existential threats to their civilizations, & taking rational precautions against catastrophes.https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1250883701069754371 …
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Don't they? Seems like leadership failure than systemic failure. https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources-70031273 …pic.twitter.com/FJZp4WneYa
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Yes. Of course they exist. And of course they exist of experts in a variety of fields. But in a time where “the reality-based community” is viewed by the ruler and his cult as a the de facto political existential threat, no one has any interest to hear their screams.
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I'm older, so 9/11 was my wake-up call. Also, look up Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.
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I just looked that up and, while I'm very familiar with the concept, I've never heard it put so succinctly before.
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Maybe in Singapore.
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There was a time when I thought that career civil servants cared about what they were doing. For example, the CDC has more than 10,000 people working there with an annual budget in the billions of dollars. The fact that there was no plan and no supplies boggles the mind.
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They do. The DoD likely has the most realistic understanding of the actual threat level, and knew before anyone else.
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They used to, but the external threat (globalism) is viewed as the ultimate good by the establishment.
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wait you believed the government employed experts? for anything?
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