by Ray Jason
There is only one town here in the Archipelago of
Bliss, and although it is in a beautiful seaside location, it has avoided the
curse of gentrification. You would never
confuse it with a cutesy, sterile, tourist destination that beckons to the
cruise ships. But even though it fails
the “postcard perfect” test - it gets an A for Authenticity. And it would get an F from any Social
Engineer.
In my previous essay, I discussed how
those who are obsessed with ruling the world are attempting to steer and
control the entire planet as though it was their personal Maserati. The term that I long ago coined for these
alpha villains is The Malignant
Overlords. I am delighted to report
that their efforts to impose their Social Engineering on this little community have
been an abysmal failure.
Here is some evidence that supports
this claim. The people here are not
addicted to television. Instead, they
are out chatting and laughing with their neighbors on the streets and in the
park. There are no suburbs, and there are
certainly no massive highways since almost nobody owns a car. In fact, water taxis are the main form of
transportation. And no one worships the
god of consumerism here. You can’t buy a
Rolex watch – excuse me, time piece – or a Gucci handbag here.
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In my earlier discussion of Social
Engineering, I outlined the main ways that our culture was being directed
during the final stages of the Industrial Age.
My belief is that the Master-plan for greater and greater human
domination by fewer and fewer people is being achieved by isolating people from
each other so that they can be more efficiently manipulated.
All of the major cultural developments of the 20th
Century contributed to this. These
included television, suburbs, highways that by-passed small towns and
hyper-consumerism. But even as people
were being deliberately separated from each other, they were also being
programmed to be more similar to each other.
And so, paradoxically, the Malignant Overlords were striving to destroy
both community AND individuality. Just
as almost every shopping mall is identical, they want each human to also be
identical.
One of the methods that they use to subtly enforce
regimentation is by lessening a person’s choices. They simultaneously impose both “sameness”
and “bigness.” So instead of thousands
of Mom and Pop restaurants, the landscape is devoured by a plague of fast food
locusts. Family farms are replaced by industrial
agriculture. A thousand newspapers owned
by local people are replaced by six media giants. The same fifty franchise stores infest almost
every mall. Uniformity wins - diversity
and humanity loses.
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But as hideous as these developments from the end of
the Industrial Age are, what is even more dangerous are the Social Engineering
techniques that the controllers are using in the Age of Technology. Their goals remain the same: to isolate us,
to regiment us, to destroy our independence, to transform us into human
automatons, and to subtly but completely DOMINATE US! The little photo that accompanies this essay
is a perfect example of that. An elite
ruler prances down the convention hall aisle as free as can be, while his
subjects voluntarily submit to electronic serfdom.
So let’s examine some of the most common new
technologies and see if they benefit the Human Multitude or the Malignant
Overlords. We’ll start with the one that
is universally perceived as a great gift to the world – The Internet.
Yes, there are tremendous positive aspects to the
Internet. The ability to freely research
a health issue on the Web is miraculous.
Learning in detail about the customs of others far away, without any
filtering, is excellent. Being able to easily
make travel arrangements is so convenient.
And staying in touch with loved ones from afar –even with video imaging -
is wonderful. But let’s take a look at the
downside.
Surveillance is an appropriate place to start. All of these screens that you are watching are
also watching you. And they are
recording you. To evade being monitored
24/7, a person has to become a cyber-contortionist. And those who watch and monitor you are not
your friends who are doing so as part of a Neighborhood Watch. It is the Malignant Overlords who now possess
this astonishing tool for further control.
The ghost of Orwell is probably whispering, “You would not listen to me.”
False
Connectivity is another consequence
of the internet age. All the survey data
reveals that even though people continue to accumulate hundreds of Facebook “friends,”
they actually have fewer and fewer real friends. Walk into any Starbucks on the planet and
what will you witness? You’ll see people
sitting together and ignoring each other while they are fixated on their
devices.
eBread and
eCircuses is what much of the Internet
has become. It is a tsunami of
information that convinces people that they are informed, when in actuality
they are merely distracted. It does not
encourage “critical thinking” it drowns one in a flood of disconnected
data. When another insipid, accidentally
deliberate wardrobe malfunction “breaks” the Internet because a billion people
are salivating over it, you know how misused the Web has become.
Alternative
Media is obviously one aspect of the
www that is extraordinarily valuable to the Human Multitude. It is an open
marketplace of ideas where the reader or viewer can make their own judgments. I applaud this and I am deeply grateful for
it. Certainly my essays would never be
published by the Establishment Media.
My problem with it is that the Malignant Overlords can
shut it down at a moment’s notice. And
they will as soon as the counter-narrative becomes too threatening to the
version of reality that they wish to impose.
This is already evident as they try to demonize the alt-media with the
term Fake News. It can also be seen in
the way Youtubers are having their content censored for being advertiser-unfriendly. The Ministry of Truth will undoubtedly strive
to silence the actual crusade for truth.
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I hope that my contrarian views on the Internet will
help you understand that for all of its merits it is also an incredible tool
that allows the power junkies to further dominate us. Because the focus of this essay is Social
Engineering in the Age of Technology, I was planning to also discuss these
extremely important and troubling topics:
·
The cashless
society
·
Micro-chipping
humanity
·
The rise of the
robots
·
Artificial
Intelligence.
But these are
such crucial issues, that I will instead dedicate a full essay to them in the
near future.
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You might recall that I began my previous essay on
Social Engineering with a vignette about my gift of a solar-powered light to an
Indio family here in the Archipelago of Bliss.
A few months later, when I returned and anchored near their modest homestead,
I noticed that the energetic four year old girl would move the little Luci
Light throughout the day. She would track
the graceful glide of the sun across the sky, and re-position the light to fully
charge its battery.
Joyously witnessing her tending of the light, rekindled
my sad recognition of how wounded our world is – and why it is so. For thousands of years, wise philosophers and
spiritual thinkers have cautioned us to not stray too far from Simplicity and from
Nature. But we humans have done so. We are hypnotized by our power to create the
spectacular frenzy of the modern world. Our
vanity has seduced us into the worship of Complexity and Artificiality. Such hubris is not just tragic – it is perilous. Have we strayed so far - that we will never
rediscover The Path of Light?