Scary shit

[ironphoenix]

George Orwell, come on down: Big Brother gets things rolling in Eastasia.

Remember the military-industrial complex? It has mutated, and the resulting beast is terrifying. I saw the early signs of this years ago at a conference called "Aerosense," since renamed to the Defense And Security Symposium, but it's grown beyond my nightmares: this is a $200,000,000,000 industry, and people will do a lot for that kind of money.

Ganked from theweaselking.

Comments

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I suspect in the next year or two that industry is going to be hitting a rather nasty shrinkage, given that the US just can't sustain it's current military expenditures.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

It's not just the US... this is a bandwagon that a lot of countries are leaping onto. Also, I suspect that this is the kind of power that will have to be pried out of the various US three-letter agencies' (and Canadian four-letter agencies') cold, dead hands.

[ancalagon-tb.livejournal.com]

This is alarming, and I agree with you that it will be extremely difficult to reverse this trend :(