The Age of Information Part II

　

Think about this for a minute.

We now have computing power in the Exa-scale now. Terabytes are so 2000's. Yet, with all this computing power in the palm of our hands what have we accomplished?

Where are the cures? Where is world peace? Why are we not walking on Mars? If we can compute in the 18th power to 1 billion what is it all for? To solve a math problem in a fraction of a nanosecond?

Sorry to sound niave but ask yourself these questions.

The new I-Phone is $1000. All it does is take nifty pictures and upload the last stupid thing you posted on Instagram that much faster. Without it's updated GPS the owner couldn't find their own ass to wipe after a shit.

And this is my point; The age of information and no one has a clue.

I watched a replay of the November 18th Boston Free Speech Rally posted on Facebook LIVE. What astounded me was the constant commenting from people who were not there, had no idea what it was about, had no idea who the speakers were, did not even know there WAS a rally yet were convinced it was all white supremacy hate speech. The comments were simply astounding.. Just astounding!

Yet these people are probably the proud owners of the latest technology, the proud recipients of one or more college degrees, white collar employees, in positions of decision making for their places of employment. None of them...NONE of them knew what they were talking about.

Think about that for a minute.

Despite the fact that we know the press lies to us, politicians lie to us, advocates lie to us, teachers lie to us, law enforcement lies to us.. Every one lies to us! Still we believe what we are told and follow accordingly. It is almost as if it is no longer engrained propaganda built up over time but intinsically genetic. We are now born into not just believing the bullshit, but living it. It is part of our DNA.

Watch the movie 1984 with John Hurt. Watch the scene where the crowd is chanting and raving at the video screen with passion. Watch the people of North Korea cry as Dear Leader waves to them. The protestors at the Boston Rally were just as convinced; not mentally, educationally or even emotionally. They were convinced genetically. They could not separate themselves from their own delusion any more than one can genetically separate themselves from their own skin color.

( Apologies here: According to Liberals apparently you can.. I know, Liberalism is confusing.)

Still, this is suppose to be the most advanced, intelectually evolved, ethically evolved and most Liberally tolerant generation ever in the history of man. Meanwhile they Tweet and Comment and rant on Exa-byte capable devices the most hateful, intolerant and ignorant shit ever in the history of man.

Ever watch these people? Face forward into their cell phones. What is so God damned important? Are they working on curing cancer? Plotting a mathmatically faster way to Mars? Maybe negotiating worldwide nuclear disarmament.. Doubt it.

Individual lives are trivial. We are just one in seven billion. Technology allows us the illusion of importance. Technology grants us the self indulgence of internet pontification worldwide. In an age of information our circadian 24 hour cycle does not allow us to process that information cogently. We unreasonably respond instantly to Social Media faster than we can reason our instantaneous responces.

Media no longer manipulates us. It just feeds us on a base level. It taps into the DNA we have passed down since electronic media was invented over 100 years ago.

Think about that for a minute.

Understand why I keep using that sentence.. Think! It takes time. The Exa-byte society we live in does not allow that. It requires and demands instantaneous responces regardless of critical assessment. The human capacity to fathom this at such a speed does not exist.

Too bad, imagine how far we could go as a species if it did.

Because in this Age of Information no one seems to have a clue.

　

.... And That Is The Diatribe....