I see a lot of people who seem to be really threatened by anything they cant buy off. Right now in our society, pretty much all of the institutions that are supposed to help us find our way are "captured" meaning varying degrees of corrupt and dishonest.
For example, the media now is largely intentionally, systematically omitting all important key facts or context from the news, such as to make whats reported varying degrees of deceptive at best (and quite oftentimes its intentionally spun so as to be quite wrong.)
Not so coincidentally, there is a huge outcry in that same media about "fake news" - which sometimes is true, and their protests are really protests that the people who used to believe every word they said, now are starting to figure out they are being manipulated.
Only a very few media outlets are willing to admit when they made a mistake and even fewer make an effort to find out what the truth is when some fact emerges showing that their take on something is really wrong, when "news" or spin is wrong. A glitch in the Matrix.. so to speak.
Instead of fighting for the truth, more and more media's first reaction is anger at being exposed as dishonest.. Rather than correct themselves, media are grasping at various means and appeals to authority in various ways to spin themselves as the accurate ones. What was it Shakespeare said, the lady she doth protest too much.
Similarly with politics, often the political discussion is engineered to be a distraction from whats really going on, not reflect or God forbid govern or regulate it. If it did, corporations would go beserk, and lacking any context to understand what was happening, many peoples heads would explode.
Why is this being done? Its a form of sophisticated theft.
There is a concept in law called "Adverse possession" - it basically says that you can steal anything from anybody by taking it notoriously - basically you are challenging them to stop you, they are supposed to go to court in some manner. Of course, thats an illusion, the courts are closed to that kind of case, also, people have to know the planet is being taken from them, they have to realize they own something. In an abuse scenario people have been brainwashed into silence and disempowerment.
There I said it, thats what these alleged "social justice warriors" (people with common sense) are saying to would be engineering EDUCATORS.. not engineering students, teachers of engineering, who likely are already engineers or close to it. But of course, thats not what people repeating the story are assuming. No as they are spinning it, young people are being forced to pay for content they dont want -an argument that speaks to a great many people, because money is being used as a costly screen to keep a great many people from pursuing an education. Dnying more and more people a voice that can be heard. Large numbers ofpeople are being disempowered. And we need some way to re-empower people to speak. thats true.
Those social justice warriors are right, and its easy to prove to a logically minded person.
The big theft could also be stopped by these logically minded people.
I think the point should be recognized that the big losers when technology is abused are the common people, you and I, all of us, and that families and society often pay a huge price for decisions made by corporations knowing that they could likely get away with it.
They make a conscious decision to steal, secure in the knowledge that they are not alone, other thieves will prevent their ever being held accountable .
This is getting worse and worse and the cost in monetary sense is already astronomical and growing exponentially due to things like pollution and shifting of innumerable costs of disinvestment to society while profits are being concentrated in fewer and fewer people. Its like a curve thats going from horizontal to vertical very rapidly. And people always underestimate the rate of change because they base it on the past. Not the future. At the same time, scientists know whats happening, that the future is rapidly growing more and more unpredictable, ad the only logical response to that rising level of risk if bad decisons are made is precaution. Its been spelled out formally in something called the precautionary principle. Nothing is more under attack today than policies which reflect the precautionary principle. Whats being forced on us is every person atomized and alone against a united front of bad actor corporations and politicians who all have a vested interest in ever increasing dishonesty. ans elimination of any accountability. A case in point is the pressure thats being put on professionals by the harmonization of all regulations to their lowest common denominator, even when they should be harmonized upward. Only professionals have a voice to speak. So they must speak or society loses its one opportunity to save itself.
Many people now make the point that some (I think its a minority of corporations, still but the institutions driving this are pushing to make them worse) bad actor corporations (all corporations have been mistakenly given the same rights as people) are out of control. Around 1995 there was a legal shift and they now regulate countries, and not the other way around. But were being consciously deceived into thinking nothing has changed, when legally, things have a great deal. The effect is to try to make it impossible to get any accountability, ever.
Ever see "the old shell game" its a gambling game where people are asked to visually track money and guess what shell its under. A skilled shell game master will always have the people guess the wrong hand and they win a lot of money. Well, the same thing is being done to everything of value in the world. And its a huge social injustice that if left to continue has only one possible end, one so unspeakable I wont go into it. But, its totally wrong, and backwards. They dont own the world, we do. But they are so skillfully convincing us that they do because they intend to steal it, they are in fact stealing it. Because people have been dropping the ball, exhausted as they are by the fight for survival.
Technology is making it so nobody has to work, we often say.
the benefits of technology really should be shared with everybody in the work-less future. But of course thats the oposite of capitalism which says that the investors get it all. And there is no accountability. Its as if the whole world is being stolen by use of a straw man transaction, in order to insulate the illegitimate "owners" from the crime. But to pull this theft off requires society's consent, and to steal democracy requires them to be told its happening. So, those who steal it create unusual sets of circumstances that coincidentally, end up with them owning teh world. Our big mistake was putting trust in people who arent even people, they are legal fictions. Corporations.
corporations are designed so that the officers of the corporations are insulated from any responsibility for their actions.
This has turned out to be a huge disaster and now we're headed towards an environmental apocalypse in a number of terrifying ways. Understanding them requires an understanding of science. Speaking about them (and having the media or any public entity listen to you, especially in a formal setting requires credentials at a higher than undergraduate level, usually a doctorate in some field. Occasionally a masters degree. Engineers seem to be the sole exception, a profession that may be instantiated with some level of authority after only six or perhaps even four years. The era of the self taught expert in any field who is actually quoted in the media or respected as such, is being hastened to a close "on principle" globally even when there are no academic experts in a field because its so new. That should scare people.
So, increasingly, the only people entrusted by society with the authority to speak are those with formal academic credentials in a field. Nobody else is allowed to speak. So they want those people with voices to be controllable, which often means misinformed. They also want to make their jobs precarious. Like so many others. People in a state of economic fear are more amenable to "reason" as they put it.. (which in that context means corruption) Play the game and you'll be rewarded, stand up for the truth as you see it and you'll be ostracized or lose your job.
After all, in a factless scienceless world, money is everything.
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