The blahgosphere is all a-blurber this week with talk of this Singularity thing

The blahgosphere is all a-blurber this week with talk of this Singularity thing. “There is no clear

definition, but usually the Singularity is meant as a future time when societal, scientific and

economic change is so fast we cannot even imagine what will happen from our present perspective.” It’

s, like, Super-Dynamism! …

LOL. Need I even sketch out the foreign policy tendencies of the Singularity crowd? What is it about

gee-whiz techno-Whiggery that makes its adherents so prone to bellicosity? If you really believe that

humanity is just a few pills or microchips away from perfection, why not just sit back and let events

unfold as peacefully as possible? Why the Leninist insistence on making the “inevitable” happen by

force of arms?

The Battle of Basra, where British troops “rescued” two out-of-uniform British soldiers who’d gotten

into a contretemps with NIKE SHOXi police, gets more fascinating by the moment. A news item put out by

China’s Xinhua News Agency’s contains the following fascinating paragraph:

“‘Two persons wearing Arab uniforms opened fire at a police station in Basra. A police patrol

followed the attackers and captured them to discover they were two British soldiers,’ an Interior

Ministry source told Xinhua. The two soldiers were using a civilian car packed with explosives, the

source said.”