#Utopianism: De-industrialization was a strategic mistake. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:05.0 | this CBS, I on the world. I'm John Bachelore. |
| 0:08.0 | Gregory Coppley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, he's traveling, he's in London. |
| 0:11.0 | And I turn to an essay that Gregory is published about |
| 0:13.8 | post-industrialism utopianism. This is a concept that I translate in my |
| 0:19.7 | science fiction brain into H.G. Wells Genius at the turn of the 20th from the |
| 0:25.4 | 19th century, the time machine. You will recall our time traveler wound up in a |
| 0:30.4 | place where he was quite puzzled. |
| 0:33.2 | Where were the machines to make this bubble of a palace |
| 0:37.0 | and feed these Eloy children? |
| 0:39.6 | Where were the machines that had rendered |
| 0:41.6 | this beautiful landscape. |
| 0:44.4 | What happened? |
| 0:45.6 | Who is making those clothes? |
| 0:47.4 | He eventually discovers the Morlocks, the underground people, who live in darkness, and when he descends to them they become ferocious |
| 0:55.9 | and cannibal-like and enraged why because they eat the Eli and the surface at night |
| 1:01.9 | it's never safe for the Elioy to go out after dark. There's no security for them. |
| 1:07.0 | That was how I translated Gregory's presentation of utopianism and post-industrialism. |
| 1:12.0 | In other words, we have a culture in which the elite, |
| 1:16.4 | those of us in the United States qualify every one of us. We enjoy the fruits of the Morlocks working in raw materials and the manufacture of goods underground. |
| 1:27.0 | Is that a fair translation, Gregory, of H.G. Wells's story, not yours. |
| 1:32.0 | Yes, it is indeed. |
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