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Hacker Publishes Cell Phone Numbers of House Democrats (thehill.com)
Another day, another leak. A suspected Russian hacker known as "Guccifer 2.0" has published the phone numbers of House Democrats on his website Friday. The Hill reports: "The document was obtained from the cyberattack on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The hacker also published DCCC shared passwords to several online databases and news networks. The dump also included the memos on the House race for Florida's 18th district, including opposition research on the Republican contenders, which is being vacated by Democrat Patrick Murphy as he vies for the Senate. The hacker also claimed to have breached House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's computer and published a memo sent to her about a 2015 fundraiser for Morgan Carroll, who is running for a Colorado House seat against Republican Mike Coffman."
On the theory that hackers are technological leaders, it looks like they are leading us down the drain.
Each time I seriously consider the Fermi Paradox, I keep coming to the conclusion that technological civilizations are quite prone to suicide via insanity. We are apes with nuclear bombs and biological weapons and no understanding of what we are doing. We have reached the point where we could accidentally exterminate ourselves at any time, but soon it will only take one madman to do it on purpose. Never been a shortage of madmen.
The transition from naturally evolved intelligence to rationally designed intelligence appears to be quite rocky. My quatloos say we're gonna lose and exterminate ourselves first.
"Mommy help I need a safe space the hax0rz keep picking on my favorite political party!"
This might also be an artifact less of the nature of our Constitution and instead the result of the Christian underpinnings of the nation. Remember, a lot of the early arrivals here, right up until the time of the Founding Fathers, believed that man was a fallen creature born in sin and requiring redemption. While that might not be a bad way to build a personal system of morality, it's a horrible way to build a social system. Also, the notion that there is an "elect" (which happens to coincide with "the rich") has caused us to revere wealth to the point that we measure human worth in terms of bank accounts (reputed or otherwise) and belongings. If you're rich and famous, you must be smart and virtuous. This is also an artifact of the religion of the early settlers. It's one reason why we ended up with a Constitution that puts several layers of elite between people and government. The USA was designed from the beginning to be a country government by the elite.
Unfortunately, this has so degraded people's ability to think that it might just be too late to convene a new constitutional convention. At this point, who knows what the hell we'd end up with?
You are welcome on my lawn.