Rise of the TranshumansThe last battle for equal rights won't be for racial equality;It won't be for gender equality;Not for sexual or gender orientation;It will be a battle between two species:Humans and Transhumans.Unlike the other battles for equality, this one will be more than figurative;It will take a great expense of bloodAnd in all likelihood result in the eventual extinction of the human race.That's how dominant species function, As one rises the other must logically fallTranshumans will be smarter, stronger, and more capable than humansHumans will eventually stop being the masters of their own planetTranshumans will take the jobs o
Last GaspHalfway through 2011 we find ourselves in a much more complicated world than anytime since the Age of Enlightenment.In America 52% of the country has stated that they don't have a problem with Gay Marriage and the US Military has begun the process to let gays and in many cases Women serve openly. Texas, California, and New Mexico have all become Majority Minority States and the others will soon join that status. A larger percentage of Americans are in favor of Legalizing Marijuana today (46% as of 2010) than ever before.In the Middle East a new generation of activists have in many cases peacefully overthrown old authoritarian governments
Army of the Mist Part 5Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of these characters, nor works that they inhabit from SM Stirling. I am but a humble fan submitting what I think could be an interesting scenario. So this is purely a work of fan fiction.Seattle Death Zone, Washington StateJanuary 19, 2005 CE (Change Year 7)Consul General Don Kilpatrick had been to Seattle many times since the Change, usually with recon and salvage teams to see if there was anything left worth taking that the locals from Portland wouldn't notice. They'd intentionally left the Savages that didn't attack them alive, and avoided the areas where disease still survived. Clearing Seattle out would
Army of the Mist Part 4Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of these characters, nor works that they inhabit from SM Stirling. I am but a humble fan submitting what I think could be an interesting scenario. So this is purely a work of fan fiction.The Castle, Golden Hinde Mountain/Commonwealth of Vancouver, British ColumbiaSeptember 6, 2021 CE (Change Year 23)Juniper and Nigel awoke the rapping on their door that signaled it was time to get up and begin the day of war making, a task Juniper never cared for in the first place.Colonel Hiller was as silent as the night before, but Juniper found him so serious that she didn't think any attempt at conversation would've b
Conservatives and ReactionariesThe meaning of words is too important to ignore in politics, and there is one word that has been mutilated into something grotesque by the worst elements of our political discourse. Conservative. Its an idea that advocates trying to preserve things as they are by emphasizing stability and continuity. It is an ideology that does not fear change, but simply wishes for it to be managed well. Too many politicians identifying as conservative today are in fact reactionaries. Reactionaries oppose modernism and seek a return to "the way things were," a goal historically being both futile and self destructive; something the current Republican party is
A New Conservative PartyGiven the remaining candidates out of the initial crop of crazy; and the nature of the Republican Party in the last three years alone (not counting their actions under the Bush administration); isn't it time we wrote them off and called for a new Conservative Party? Lets face it; short of a Constitutional Amendment establishing Instant Runoff voting; this is the best option we have right now.Its important to note that this is how politics has worked in America since the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans; every time one party fell out of touch with the interests of the public, they found themselves being replaced by someone more app
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