I'm speaking of some other principles that might be at play. The details are irrelevant. The premise is that it would be very easy to assemble a very, very powerful bomb, such that with the right know-how just about anyone could do it easily. Suppose the destructive capacity is on the order of the Hiroshima or Nagasaki bombs.
Ok if such a thing is possible, then suppose that some tiny fraction of people would be motivated to put one together and destroy something, like a crowded city. Would it be stretching the imagination to guess that 1 person in a million would actually press the button if it were as easy as that to commit an act of destruction?
There are 7 billion people on the planet. That is 7,000 people if 1 out of every million would do something insane like set off a massively destructive bomb. If the knowledge of how to do it is widespread, what are the odds that all 7,000 people who have the motivation won't actually do it?
I'd say the odds are zero. One of the people will actually do it. Who knows what the fraction is? If not 1 in a million, 1 in 10 million? 1 in 100 million? 1 in a billion? In those cases the number of people goes down to 700, 70, or 7. What are the odds that these smaller groups of people don't have an individual that would actually do it?
I'd say again the odds are practically zero.
Now if this line of reasoning is possible to me, certainly it's possible to people who have influence and who can affect the spread of knowledge. Suppose in order to prevent the possibility of a catastrophe as described above, there is an intentional corruption of scientific truth such that the general population is kept in the dark about the real physics of the universe we live in?
We have a clear motive for hiding the truth. IF the physics of the universe allow for very powerful bombs to be made very easily, that would be enough reason to justify corrupting science. Intellectual elite would come to the conclusion that spreading lies is the lesser of two evils, the other evil being the destruction of the human race or even of all life on earth.
I personally believe just about every field of science is hopelessly corrupted, we're spinning our wheels, pursuing dead ends, getting nowhere. Somewhere in the past some misinterpretation was locked onto and accepted as truth, promoted as truth, and alternatives are actively ridiculed and denied funding. I've tried to figure out how it can be that the lies can persist, how so many individuals claiming to be scientists actively distort the truth and deny contradictory evidence, no matter how overwhelming it is.
Basically I have two different best-guesses I've come up with so far.
The first is that the physics of the universe DO allow for the easy assembly of very powerful explosive devices, and so to protect all life on earth science must be hobbled.
The second is that government intrusion in all areas of human existence has killed the profit motive. Instead of discovery of truth being a route to profit and success, the best liar is given the most government funding.
I suppose there is a third option, the human brain is just too limited and so too many people fall back on the safety of numbers (going along with the majority) instead of taking a chance at being wrong.
And there is always the option that I'm just completely wrong about everything. I'm constantly asking myself this, actually. But so far I haven't seen anything that demonstrates I'm wrong. My theories are not met with arguments, they're met with denial and a tendency to avoid even thinking about these things. I'd love it if someone else had a better explanation of what's going on in the world these days. Instead I just see everyone plodding along with their head down. And they fall back on just going along with the status quo and the majority.
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