Ray9
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- Jul 19, 2016
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Like it or not, we are mired in an information age on steroids. From the standpoint of Baby boomers, now in their 70’s, the continuing evolution of a hyper-information age is seen as a double-edged sword. That is because Boomers have the benefit of wisdom gained from experience. We still remember the days when a well-informed person needed to read newspapers and books or get an actual skill-building college education to stay well informed.
Those days are gone because all the information one could want, or need is at the fingertips and can be accessed immediately from a screen a few inches from the eyes. Just as contemporary, indoctrinating liberal arts education has spoiled and failed society, the forces behind the screen are in the process of completely destroying it. In order for information to be useful, it must be accessible in all its forms. When police action to siphon or purify information occurs, free speech, the bedrock of any functioning democratic society, can be removed or “cancelled” as a dangerous byproduct.
The power available to information merchants is breathtaking, and the door to authoritarianism can be swung wide open in one direction and slammed shut in the other. The technology is new, but the motivation is old. The lust to manufacture outcomes is an irresistible force and it strives to become an immovable object as the tech giants co-opt information mechanisms, branding all nonconforming thought as hateful and dangerous to what is right and good.
The hearts and minds of Congress are easily persuaded with bags of contribution gold from an embedded monopoly of billionaire technocrats, so any regulatory action in the near future is unlikely. A song from 1967 by the Strawberry Alarm clock has a Nostradamus-like ring to it: “To divide this cockeyed world in two, throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do, beatniks and politics, nothing is new, a yardstick for lunatics, one point of view”.
Baby Boomers may be the last surviving remnants of an information-balanced democracy. They are seen as scapegoated obstacles of a “new and improved” global movement of monolithic thinking. The authoritarian movement is really as old as history itself, but it has very impressive new packaging festooned with post-modern, leading edge automation.
Boomers must understand that their mere existence is unacceptable to soldiers of the movement. They must choose wisely in this election or be destroyed.
Those days are gone because all the information one could want, or need is at the fingertips and can be accessed immediately from a screen a few inches from the eyes. Just as contemporary, indoctrinating liberal arts education has spoiled and failed society, the forces behind the screen are in the process of completely destroying it. In order for information to be useful, it must be accessible in all its forms. When police action to siphon or purify information occurs, free speech, the bedrock of any functioning democratic society, can be removed or “cancelled” as a dangerous byproduct.
The power available to information merchants is breathtaking, and the door to authoritarianism can be swung wide open in one direction and slammed shut in the other. The technology is new, but the motivation is old. The lust to manufacture outcomes is an irresistible force and it strives to become an immovable object as the tech giants co-opt information mechanisms, branding all nonconforming thought as hateful and dangerous to what is right and good.
The hearts and minds of Congress are easily persuaded with bags of contribution gold from an embedded monopoly of billionaire technocrats, so any regulatory action in the near future is unlikely. A song from 1967 by the Strawberry Alarm clock has a Nostradamus-like ring to it: “To divide this cockeyed world in two, throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do, beatniks and politics, nothing is new, a yardstick for lunatics, one point of view”.
Baby Boomers may be the last surviving remnants of an information-balanced democracy. They are seen as scapegoated obstacles of a “new and improved” global movement of monolithic thinking. The authoritarian movement is really as old as history itself, but it has very impressive new packaging festooned with post-modern, leading edge automation.
Boomers must understand that their mere existence is unacceptable to soldiers of the movement. They must choose wisely in this election or be destroyed.
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