| > What do you think is the biggest problem with solar energy? Stupid people. (Also the biggest problem with everything else. It's almost, but not quite, the only problem.) > How can this problem be solved with our existing knowledge and resources? Well we can't throw all the stupid people into a volcano. Let's get that out of the way right off. Instead, we distract and hypnotize them with the Farnsworth device (Philo, not Hubert). We miniaturize it and make it portable. Then we can plug them into virtual Skinner Boxes and hopefully modify their behavior to make them less destructive. We have to maintain tight operational security. If they ever find out what we're doing to them they will attempt to destroy us, or, failing that, to destroy themselves to spite us (that's how goddamned stupid they are!) (However, it turns out you can talk about the plan in public with complete candor as long as you pretend you're joking. The only risk is that some of the stupid people will get confused. But since they are confused anyway it's usually moot.) It's unpleasant to treat the bulk of humanity as ignorant and insane children who shit in camp, but the evidence is undeniable, the real question is how do we manage the stupid people? In the Tao Te Ching (book of wisdom, thousands of years old) it says: With the best kind of leader
When the work is finished
The people all say
"We did it ourselves."
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