Very insightful, and I think this is spot on. There will never be an AI consciousness independent of human minds - the only way to get a machine that is superior to man is if that machine uses man for what the machine can never have, namely, the intellect. >Communism was never going to be realized in a nation-state as we have typically understood them. The Jews (obviously there were other parties also) recognized that communism as it is typically understood failed long before the fall of the Soviet Union. That's what the Frankfurt School and the shift to cultural Marxism was all about. But what happens when the culture they sought to infiltrate goes digital? @ARM @KingOfWhiteAmerica On KOWA's point in his response below, there are many Catholic prophecies that interpret Revelation as indicating the 3.5 year / 42 month / 1260 day reign of the AntiChrist, *after which* will be the Second Coming. At least the prophecies indicate that when things become the very worst they can be, it'll only be a few years we have to endure...