06-16-2024, 02:09 PM
This post was last modified 06-16-2024, 02:37 PM by FlyingClayDisk. 
(06-16-2024, 06:29 AM)Karl12 Wrote: Originally sourced by ElectricUniverse thought the video interview at the link underneath was a really fascinating one and wasn't surprised to learn that Moderna (Mode-RNA) now admit their mRNA technology platform 'functions like an Operating System in a PC'.
So, basically "Big Brother" completely unmasked. Absolute control...of everything. Why even have humans at that point? If slaves is the end-game, then why mess around with beings which can get sick, need to be fed, have emotions (to the extent that Big Brother will allow such things), and which are all dissimilar from a 'maintenance' standpoint? Robots don't need any of those things, and shelf-stock for repair parts is much easier.
Ninteen Eighty-Four (on steroids)...only forty years late.
I find it more than just a little ironic that many do not realize the underlying impetus for Orwell writing the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Most only see the dystopian 'control' aspect of Orwell's novel, but the larger underlying theme was that of a crystal ball vision of what would become of communism in the future if left unchecked. It really wasn't any sort of a prognostication about anything to do with western society and culture. Now, forty years later, through technology and medicine, we have a collision of both the 'control' aspect of Nineteen Eighty-Four while at the same time having the 'ideological' side of it come crashing together.
Much the same as you point out in the OP, that dystopian end-state could never come about if people didn't actively 'want' it. So, the trick was...making people want it. And a steady ideological shift through propaganda will result in just that.
I remember hearing as a kid the phrase..."Watch out what you wish for, because it just might come true!"..and wondering what it meant. I find myself using this phrase more and more as each month, each year, marches on. With the pace of things today and technology being what it is, I now find myself using this old phrase almost daily anymore. The one big difference between then and today though is...I believe people of older generations were capable of understanding what they were wishing for. Today, I'm not so sure that's still true, and failure to understand acts like an accelerant of sorts. The faster things change, the less time people spend on thinking about what they wish for, and the less they understand the consequences as a result.
Interesting.
edit to add - Speaking of people not thinking carefully about what they wish for...The (unfunny) comedienne, Kathy Griffin, illustrated it better (without saying a single word) than an entire chorus of 320 million people screaming in unison could have ever said it when she held out an effigy of Donald Trump's severed head on stage. She thought she was being funny, and millions of shortsighted people "wished" with all their hearts in that moment it was true. Griffin would later say she never thought such a stunt could end her entire career, but (thankfully) it did. She was "wishing" in that moment to get rich from stroking the tide of liberal public opinion. She was wrong, and she found out in, in short order, the meaning of the phrase..."unintended consequences". Ironically, today people still wish for such a crazy thing, which is tantamount to the JFK assassination, and I suspect people today in their shortsightedness would gleefully dance on Trump's grave. Trump, nor Biden, nor Obama, Bush or any other president is the point here. The point is, make sure you understand what you wish for because the consequences of having your wish granted might not grant the result you expect.