Daniel Broudy provides an excellent overview of the dangers of the digital world, mass surveillance and advanced computing power when in the service of the .1% Predator class. I would simply like to point out that the digital world is like a double-edged sword that cuts both ways. Just as it it used to propagandise and control, it can also used to dissolve illusions, challenge dominant false narratives and educate.
So successful is this second and liberatory nature of digital tools, the Predator class is going into panic mode - best exemplified by EU President Ursula von der Leyen's recent speech at a Davos meeting where she stated that "disinformation and misinformation" is the greatest threat facing them - even greater than Climate Change. Imagine that.
One could argue that for the first time since mass communication was invented, digital infrastructure, namely the Internet, enables simple people like myself to have an opportunity to mass broadcast their own opinions. We no longer just have to passively absorb curated mainstream news and views, but can answer back and challenge it. Yelling at the television set has now taken on a whole new dimension in power and reach.
Daniel Broudy states: "One way to see more clearly how submission to vampiric forms of governance are now tolerated is to observe how media mesmerise consumers to accept, without question, the mandates, injections, injunctions, and directions peculiar to, quote, manage democracy, sanitised of genuine citizen participation, where governments are legitimated by elections they've learned to control."
I would argue there is nothing new here. Covid was a temporarily successful marketing campaign. The Covid pandemic illusion and draconian countermeasures introduced relied on that age old trick of instilling fear. In this case - fear of illness, fear premature death, fear of "killing granny". Any good copywriter will tell you that there is nothing new to this technique. The most responsive tool in a marketing campaign is not to promise benefits but to promise the avoidance of pain. That gets attention and action. But just like all marketing tools, it can cut both ways and be equally used to liberate as to enslave. In fact, the former goal should be easier to achieve given that it based on truth, not lies, and has clear benefits as well as avoidance of pain.
Great comment. That quote from Brody's presentation also caught my attention and deserves being highlighted: "The incremental top-down acquisition and degradation of rights has long been in the making. One way to see more clearly how submission to vampiric forms of governance are now tolerated is to observe how media mesmerize consumers to accept, without question, the mandates, injections, injunctions, and directions peculiar to, quote, manage democracy, sanitized of genuine citizen participation, where governments are legitimated by elections they've learned to control." I infinitely prefer democracy to communism, but think they've both proven vulnerable to immense corruption and cannibalism.
At the moment, I think Brody's final quote from Alexei de Tocqueville may be my favorite in the series of presentations: "The democratic form of despotism does not destroy but prevents things from being born. It does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes [poisons and traumatizes with chemical toxins, propaganda, corruption, violence, many forms of harm and murder], and finally reduces each nation to nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd."
When our called creations are hindered or blocked from being born, we destroy our ability to see and know who we are — which then disables our ability to consciously choose to “stop and correct” when necessary.
"You will know them by their fruits." How can we know the tree, if we don't let its fruits bloom? How can we know ourself if we don't pay attention to the results of our thoughts, speech, and actions? If our karma reveals our “checks & balances” with God (Universe, Higher Power, or however one recognizes their Divinity), then timid, industrious animals may become too distracted or fearful to notice how they're being hindered, diminished, and canceled. I think Tocaueville's prescient observations point to a Godless world agenda, that’s been in play for quite some time.
It is all local now. You will see it in your community under the guise of all the words we well know, starting with equity. If you asked your local council person what that actually means they would struggle to give any real answer. Strategic and thoughtful presentations locally is needed now. A declaration that your town should not be engaging with any entity that has conflicts of interest is a reasonable approach. Conflicts of interest isn't tolerated locally so why would be fine with it on an even higher level of power? As the thieves flood your cities and towns may you stop them immediately by simply asking the right questions. Basic questions they will not be able to answer thus empowers those to then say NO!
Daniel Broudy provides an excellent overview of the dangers of the digital world, mass surveillance and advanced computing power when in the service of the .1% Predator class. I would simply like to point out that the digital world is like a double-edged sword that cuts both ways. Just as it it used to propagandise and control, it can also used to dissolve illusions, challenge dominant false narratives and educate.
So successful is this second and liberatory nature of digital tools, the Predator class is going into panic mode - best exemplified by EU President Ursula von der Leyen's recent speech at a Davos meeting where she stated that "disinformation and misinformation" is the greatest threat facing them - even greater than Climate Change. Imagine that.
One could argue that for the first time since mass communication was invented, digital infrastructure, namely the Internet, enables simple people like myself to have an opportunity to mass broadcast their own opinions. We no longer just have to passively absorb curated mainstream news and views, but can answer back and challenge it. Yelling at the television set has now taken on a whole new dimension in power and reach.
Daniel Broudy states: "One way to see more clearly how submission to vampiric forms of governance are now tolerated is to observe how media mesmerise consumers to accept, without question, the mandates, injections, injunctions, and directions peculiar to, quote, manage democracy, sanitised of genuine citizen participation, where governments are legitimated by elections they've learned to control."
I would argue there is nothing new here. Covid was a temporarily successful marketing campaign. The Covid pandemic illusion and draconian countermeasures introduced relied on that age old trick of instilling fear. In this case - fear of illness, fear premature death, fear of "killing granny". Any good copywriter will tell you that there is nothing new to this technique. The most responsive tool in a marketing campaign is not to promise benefits but to promise the avoidance of pain. That gets attention and action. But just like all marketing tools, it can cut both ways and be equally used to liberate as to enslave. In fact, the former goal should be easier to achieve given that it based on truth, not lies, and has clear benefits as well as avoidance of pain.
Great comment. That quote from Brody's presentation also caught my attention and deserves being highlighted: "The incremental top-down acquisition and degradation of rights has long been in the making. One way to see more clearly how submission to vampiric forms of governance are now tolerated is to observe how media mesmerize consumers to accept, without question, the mandates, injections, injunctions, and directions peculiar to, quote, manage democracy, sanitized of genuine citizen participation, where governments are legitimated by elections they've learned to control." I infinitely prefer democracy to communism, but think they've both proven vulnerable to immense corruption and cannibalism.
At the moment, I think Brody's final quote from Alexei de Tocqueville may be my favorite in the series of presentations: "The democratic form of despotism does not destroy but prevents things from being born. It does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes [poisons and traumatizes with chemical toxins, propaganda, corruption, violence, many forms of harm and murder], and finally reduces each nation to nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd."
When our called creations are hindered or blocked from being born, we destroy our ability to see and know who we are — which then disables our ability to consciously choose to “stop and correct” when necessary.
"You will know them by their fruits." How can we know the tree, if we don't let its fruits bloom? How can we know ourself if we don't pay attention to the results of our thoughts, speech, and actions? If our karma reveals our “checks & balances” with God (Universe, Higher Power, or however one recognizes their Divinity), then timid, industrious animals may become too distracted or fearful to notice how they're being hindered, diminished, and canceled. I think Tocaueville's prescient observations point to a Godless world agenda, that’s been in play for quite some time.
The Pentagon is using deep fakes https://theintercept.com/2024/10/17/pentagon-ai-deepfake-internet-users/
It is all local now. You will see it in your community under the guise of all the words we well know, starting with equity. If you asked your local council person what that actually means they would struggle to give any real answer. Strategic and thoughtful presentations locally is needed now. A declaration that your town should not be engaging with any entity that has conflicts of interest is a reasonable approach. Conflicts of interest isn't tolerated locally so why would be fine with it on an even higher level of power? As the thieves flood your cities and towns may you stop them immediately by simply asking the right questions. Basic questions they will not be able to answer thus empowers those to then say NO!