Very interesting, that which is marketed as a "smoothing of living" is actually producing a roughening of life. Hahahaha! A cousin of mine just bought her first smart phone, I asked her husband why the hell did she do that?
Why would she buy her first “smart” phone? He may not know but given that people who have them do not talk with those around them, he may be in for “the silent treatment” for the rest of his life.
Yes, her children and grandchildren, everything. Being addicted one becomes irrelevant to real people. I have experienced this with being addicted to this home computer.
It's called operant conditioning. Over decades and generations, humans are forced to accept the ever tightening vise of central control. You will own (and control) nothing in your life, and you WILL be happy (or be exterminated).
We are definitely living in the later stages of this. It is my opinion that it is much later than we know. Perhaps, the whole masking BS is one way to screen out those to eliminate first. Those who won’t comply with the masking recommendation, rules or mandates will be among the first to be eliminated.
They've known who we are for quite a while now, apparently even nobodies such as myself. Before my Mac computer got nuked earlier this year (even a computer guru was not able to retrieve ANYTHING from the hard drive -- I learned my lesson and now have an external backup), I lost well over a decade of research. In that mass of screenshots and info, I recall some important info from a whistleblower who made it clear that there was absolutely NO anonymity online and that he was part of a group who compiled info on the worldwide dissidents -- they knew everything. He confirmed that those who might in any way be a catalyst for future interference with their global governance plans would be eliminated first when the cabal went for the Big Kahuna (probably when they roll out the CBDC), and it would be made to look like an accident (or perhaps SADS, as the CIA revealed their heart attack gun way back in the 70s; you can imagine how sophisticated their murder weapons are these days).
Yes, no anonymity online. I do think we’ll be the first to go but that for most, our demise with much more mundane and worse than SADS. The CBDC scheme coupled with ESG and bar code enforced access denial will cause us to starve to death. Perhaps to freeze to death when we are not allowed a method to pay our heating bills this winter. Some will be taken out more violently, but most not.
The masks, I am thinking, are used more to let the general public know who is to be eliminated. Masks serve at least two functions in this regard. One is to deprive us of concern from our fellow man. We are enemies to them by our endangerment of their lives by refusing the mask. I the other function is a way to teach them the penalty for noncompliance. “Those who did not comply with mask mandates were allowed to die of starvation. The same will happen to YOU if you don’t eat your bug salad.”
I've noticed the same thing, although I was not familiar with the term "technological revenge." Revenge sounds malevolent though ... I tend to think more in terms of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" novels, in which aliens have developed amazing technology that is, unfortunately, just as unreliable as ours.
There is some good news though: carmakers are buckling under the pressure to bring back buttons and knobs instead of touchscreens.
One of the newer radio stories I heard that I mentioned on your substack was an audio version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Caught very little but it was enough for me to latter track down the books. Even before covid, I had long admired the character who lived in the garden of his inside out house; he being the only human not living in the asylum.
20 years ago I may have agreed that “revenge” was too strong a term. But it is just as likely that even then I may have counted that regardless of intent, it can often seem to have a malevolent bent to it. Now though, regardless of the intent of the originators of this new tech, it is being used to further goals of those who do not wish us well. I am working a new post on this subject. Took some photos last week and hope to catch something I missed earlier as I go through the station today for the story. Everyone is so happy to have the freedom to shop from home that they do not realize they are giving up the freedom to shop outside the home.
Since writing that post, I have become aware that auto makers were bring back the button and knobs, great news this. Doesn’t bring back those lost in accidents caused but this ill conceived use of this technology. Nor, in my mind, does it solve the problem of adopting tech just to adopt it with not enough, if indeed any, thought to the potential downsides of doing so. This can be applied to Covid policy. No thought was given to the negative aspects of any of it.
Thanks for the link. I have not been able to find my original source for this.
I've been thinking a lot about the cost/benefit of tech as well. It's interesting that there were certain thinkers who accurately anticipated your "technological revenge" as far back as the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Usually, I naturally run everything through the filter of cost/benefit. Somehow, I have never thought of tech in this way, at least I have not done so overtly. I seem to have done so subconsciously though. Perhaps it is due to my finances, the benefit side of the coin did not exist for me as I could not afford most of these toys. I was in my late 30s or early 40s before I bought my first computer, a Windows Vista machine.
I have been hammering the fact that authorities just plain did not perform the standard cost/benefit analysis for any of the covid mitigation measures they forced upon us. Yet, I somehow never used the cost/benefit argument by name with tech. Why not? Don’t know.
But yes, it is certainly a cost/benefit relationship.
I will look at the link you share shortly. It know little about the book or even the movies “Dune” but I do know that there are many movies where mankind is fighting for its very survival against the technology it has created. Of the monsters some mad scientist/s have created, whether the monster is Frankenstein or the Terminator this is something we have been warned about through fiction for a very long time.
I read a J Christian Adams article before, where he remarked even the toilets in the community bathroom in Japan have a "volume control." I think this was in the subway, or possibly the airport.
Exactly how loud would these things get, if you tuned them all the way up? And yes, I know they are probably set to default to a quieter setting, would it be possible to over-ride that?
Anyway, perhaps the hospital oxygen supply is running a little low, and we have to cut back a bit on everyone's setting. Or the subway car insurance, rates might skyrocket if we allowed a greater than legal occupancy, not to mention government fines, a problem we had at the night club! The Fire Marshal in particular.
This "technological revenge" is like another problem we are running into over here in America.
We have or are on the verge of using up all of our "Design Margin."
Very interesting, that which is marketed as a "smoothing of living" is actually producing a roughening of life. Hahahaha! A cousin of mine just bought her first smart phone, I asked her husband why the hell did she do that?
That’s a good way to put it.
Why would she buy her first “smart” phone? He may not know but given that people who have them do not talk with those around them, he may be in for “the silent treatment” for the rest of his life.
Yes, her children and grandchildren, everything. Being addicted one becomes irrelevant to real people. I have experienced this with being addicted to this home computer.
DOH!
It's called operant conditioning. Over decades and generations, humans are forced to accept the ever tightening vise of central control. You will own (and control) nothing in your life, and you WILL be happy (or be exterminated).
We are definitely living in the later stages of this. It is my opinion that it is much later than we know. Perhaps, the whole masking BS is one way to screen out those to eliminate first. Those who won’t comply with the masking recommendation, rules or mandates will be among the first to be eliminated.
They've known who we are for quite a while now, apparently even nobodies such as myself. Before my Mac computer got nuked earlier this year (even a computer guru was not able to retrieve ANYTHING from the hard drive -- I learned my lesson and now have an external backup), I lost well over a decade of research. In that mass of screenshots and info, I recall some important info from a whistleblower who made it clear that there was absolutely NO anonymity online and that he was part of a group who compiled info on the worldwide dissidents -- they knew everything. He confirmed that those who might in any way be a catalyst for future interference with their global governance plans would be eliminated first when the cabal went for the Big Kahuna (probably when they roll out the CBDC), and it would be made to look like an accident (or perhaps SADS, as the CIA revealed their heart attack gun way back in the 70s; you can imagine how sophisticated their murder weapons are these days).
Yes, no anonymity online. I do think we’ll be the first to go but that for most, our demise with much more mundane and worse than SADS. The CBDC scheme coupled with ESG and bar code enforced access denial will cause us to starve to death. Perhaps to freeze to death when we are not allowed a method to pay our heating bills this winter. Some will be taken out more violently, but most not.
The masks, I am thinking, are used more to let the general public know who is to be eliminated. Masks serve at least two functions in this regard. One is to deprive us of concern from our fellow man. We are enemies to them by our endangerment of their lives by refusing the mask. I the other function is a way to teach them the penalty for noncompliance. “Those who did not comply with mask mandates were allowed to die of starvation. The same will happen to YOU if you don’t eat your bug salad.”
I've noticed the same thing, although I was not familiar with the term "technological revenge." Revenge sounds malevolent though ... I tend to think more in terms of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" novels, in which aliens have developed amazing technology that is, unfortunately, just as unreliable as ours.
There is some good news though: carmakers are buckling under the pressure to bring back buttons and knobs instead of touchscreens.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-28/editorial-bring-buttons-and-dials-back-to-new-cars-not-everything-should-be-on-a-touchscreen
One of the newer radio stories I heard that I mentioned on your substack was an audio version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Caught very little but it was enough for me to latter track down the books. Even before covid, I had long admired the character who lived in the garden of his inside out house; he being the only human not living in the asylum.
20 years ago I may have agreed that “revenge” was too strong a term. But it is just as likely that even then I may have counted that regardless of intent, it can often seem to have a malevolent bent to it. Now though, regardless of the intent of the originators of this new tech, it is being used to further goals of those who do not wish us well. I am working a new post on this subject. Took some photos last week and hope to catch something I missed earlier as I go through the station today for the story. Everyone is so happy to have the freedom to shop from home that they do not realize they are giving up the freedom to shop outside the home.
Since writing that post, I have become aware that auto makers were bring back the button and knobs, great news this. Doesn’t bring back those lost in accidents caused but this ill conceived use of this technology. Nor, in my mind, does it solve the problem of adopting tech just to adopt it with not enough, if indeed any, thought to the potential downsides of doing so. This can be applied to Covid policy. No thought was given to the negative aspects of any of it.
Thanks for the link. I have not been able to find my original source for this.
I've been thinking a lot about the cost/benefit of tech as well. It's interesting that there were certain thinkers who accurately anticipated your "technological revenge" as far back as the beginning of the industrial revolution.
https://dystopianliving.substack.com/p/dune-predicted-a-war-against-computers
Usually, I naturally run everything through the filter of cost/benefit. Somehow, I have never thought of tech in this way, at least I have not done so overtly. I seem to have done so subconsciously though. Perhaps it is due to my finances, the benefit side of the coin did not exist for me as I could not afford most of these toys. I was in my late 30s or early 40s before I bought my first computer, a Windows Vista machine.
I have been hammering the fact that authorities just plain did not perform the standard cost/benefit analysis for any of the covid mitigation measures they forced upon us. Yet, I somehow never used the cost/benefit argument by name with tech. Why not? Don’t know.
But yes, it is certainly a cost/benefit relationship.
I will look at the link you share shortly. It know little about the book or even the movies “Dune” but I do know that there are many movies where mankind is fighting for its very survival against the technology it has created. Of the monsters some mad scientist/s have created, whether the monster is Frankenstein or the Terminator this is something we have been warned about through fiction for a very long time.
I read a J Christian Adams article before, where he remarked even the toilets in the community bathroom in Japan have a "volume control." I think this was in the subway, or possibly the airport.
Exactly how loud would these things get, if you tuned them all the way up? And yes, I know they are probably set to default to a quieter setting, would it be possible to over-ride that?
Anyway, perhaps the hospital oxygen supply is running a little low, and we have to cut back a bit on everyone's setting. Or the subway car insurance, rates might skyrocket if we allowed a greater than legal occupancy, not to mention government fines, a problem we had at the night club! The Fire Marshal in particular.
This "technological revenge" is like another problem we are running into over here in America.
We have or are on the verge of using up all of our "Design Margin."
Oh, I know technological revenge in a problem in the States. Probably more so there than here in Japan.
Trains and subways are horribly overcrowded. If there is any liability issues in this regard, they seem to be ignored.