There's hope for the latest generation--the Zoomers. They seem to have a little fight in them, which is good because the Millennials are a lost cause at this point. In the end, human nature always wins.
Ah yes, loonies running the booby hatch. Always entertaining if nothing else. They think they've got humans cornered with technology, but I've noticed a trend among the young'uns to leave the gadgets behind once in a while. I like to encourage that kind of behavior.
Its good to have hope in younguns;, but watching the religious zealots exercise their satanic venture into destruction of the earth and all its ecosystem healthy all for the war for fiat fractional reserve currency, kinda makes me sick! no person I know wants to discuss the messaging behind the opening of the 2024 Olympics, -the pale green horse-as the empire of Choas is on the outs.
PS: Almost all of the IRS data centers are in a small area in Virginia. If those IRS data centers are destroyed or rendered useless, there goes the IRS's power over us.
In the French Revolution, the peasants burned the tax documents of the government. The data was held in a building in Paris.
The peasants also guillotined every tax worker they could find.
The buildings may be in a small geo-location, but the data is scattered all over the net, and with a few magic incantations, it can all be rebuilt in a few minutes anywhere in the world. Welcome to the blockchain, baby! Enjoy that distributed leger.
I'd like to see the IRS do what you say with their distributed ledger. I don't think they can pull it off. Bureaucrats are lazy and stupid. The techs who do know how to do the job you describe might well sabotage the whole mess.
Again, humans are the weakest link in any system. The Grand Poo-Bahs may well be trying to use AI to circumvent the human problem, but humans program AI. Humans can sabotage it.
Pronoia is the belief that governments and institutions act in our best interest; that their intentions are fundamentally benevolent, even when outcomes suggest otherwise. At first glance, this trust seems healthy; it stabilizes society and enables cooperation.
But unchecked, it dulls scrutiny; decisions go unchallenged; power operates with less accountability. The risk is not simply misplaced trust, but a widening gap between perception and reality.
Pronoia, left unexamined, can blind just as effectively as paranoia.
You're welcome to write a guest column any time you like.
You went with the literary and philosophical approach, so I'll go with a little cowboy wisdom. When the herd is quiet and seemingly content, that's when all hell breaks loose. Same concept, but yours smells better.
History keeps telling us repeatedly that humans don't behave well with all-encompassing governance structures. That's why communism/socialism/fascism keep failing over and over (amen).It seems the masses need a lesson from time to time that compliance and submission are not part of the human experience. In the end, folks just want to be left alone.
When the herd is quiet and seemingly content, that's when all hell breaks loose. Same concept, but yours smells better.---all it takes is a little flash of lightning.
Pretty grim future. It's beyond the right time to build an alternative society, decentralized, growing our own food, producing our own energy, crafting a future outside of the control grid. it's happening but the snare is cast far and wide.
As "they" see the future, it's grim, but I believe in human nature and the long history we have of getting unruly just when things seem the most bleak. Whenever I start to get maudlin about the society we have, I always remember Robert Burns:
What we hear in the public discourse is created and controlled to manipulate the mass mind. Like a magician, you have to figure out what he's trying to hide to see what's really happening.
My only hope (and prayer) Mr. Farside is that the creators of all this, the watchers over this particular human experiment will intercede before total evil can accomplish it's obvious goals. Seems to me that we are close to the end of one of those many 3500 year cycles the ancients talk about, and in this one we walked out of the garden and messed every thing up, I suppose that is part of human nature, Maybe we can do better if given another chance. Meanwhile, it would really be a miserable existence without the support of my front porch rocker, and writers such as yourself to brighten my day
You are very kind, and I agree--the rocking chair is one of humanity's greatest achievements.
I think we are clearly at a major nexus in history. I think there is a natural ebb and flow/rise and fall, and I think there's a group of particularly nasty folks who think they can steer things in their favor. I think they are doomed to failure, but that doesn't seem to be stopping them from trying.
From what I can see, roughly every 500 years everyone snaps and we burn everything to the ground and start over. The self-appointed rulers get greedy and insensitive, the masses get tired of it, there's a mass slaughter and collapse, then everyone goes back to what they were doing. Reminds me of the Star Trek episode "Return of the Archons".
I may be way off base, but it looks like we're in for a helluva ride for the next couple of decades. Got any extra room on your porch for another rocker?
I'm surprised that Indonesia can run a data center more complicated than an abacus. Is forgery rampant on the K-mart ID cards? Bribery? Humans are always the weakest link in any system.
The oligarchs should have backed Kamalatoe Harris. Trump's attack on Iran has screwed up all of their plans for the future. What future?
Watching French cinema is torture.
I saw an interview with a man who has lived in France for many years. He said that even in France, you can no longer get a good variety of produce and meat at the stores. Sacré Bleu!
Millions will starve because of the war with Iran. One of Iran's demands is that all Gulf States end all data sharing with the USA.
Data is the power of the state.
Blow up the data centers, or at least, cut their power and water.
Indonesians are facadists. They have a system that looks good, but it's all bubblegum and balin' wire under the hood. The most-hacked entities in the country are government operations. And of course you can buy your way into and out of the system. Indos are great at dodging laws.
Au contraire mon ami. Trump is doing exactly what he was hired to do: bankrupt the US and collapse the empire. The US is the last man standing in the Old World Order, and it needs to come down to make way for the shiny Walmart future!
You're thinking in terms of nation-states and paper/metal currencies. All that will be gone in 25 years. The new system is completely unified top to bottom across the entire planet. Remember the old days when TeeVee had NTSC, PAL and SECAM? Now it's all 1080p widescreen everywhere. No need to convert standards to send a video to another country. Just attach and click SEND. Think ISO. It's all about global standards. No more money changers. We all use the dame digibits.
Standardization and digitization are the key words for the next quarter century.
You are right about what the Grand Poo-Bahs want the future to look like. I don't think they can pull it off any more than they could keep the Covid/Injection/masks/etc. scam going. People won't put up with it.
Besides, the New World Order is very computer/data dependent. Those things break all the time.
There's one consistent feature in history: they can scare everyone into compliance for a while, but as soon as the fear wears off, folks get a little antsy to get back to their daily lives.
A twist but correlates: the book The Jesus Incident by Herbert & Ransom. I’ve shared oft that humanity either from assistance naturally or by off-shore elements, experience wipe-outs, appears we’ve got another coming……
You're the second person to mention that book in the past month. I'll have to dig it up. It is a consistent theme throughout history that as soon as the self-anointed rulers thing they've got us all corralled, the herd spooks and they have to start from scratch. Sisyphus rules!
Glad I’ll be dead by then. But hopefully I’ll have instilled a rebellious nature in my children and they will fight the power.
There's hope for the latest generation--the Zoomers. They seem to have a little fight in them, which is good because the Millennials are a lost cause at this point. In the end, human nature always wins.
Always a good point of view. Out of chaos comes a new world order-no soup for you. When you have psychos making up the rules for fools
Ah yes, loonies running the booby hatch. Always entertaining if nothing else. They think they've got humans cornered with technology, but I've noticed a trend among the young'uns to leave the gadgets behind once in a while. I like to encourage that kind of behavior.
Its good to have hope in younguns;, but watching the religious zealots exercise their satanic venture into destruction of the earth and all its ecosystem healthy all for the war for fiat fractional reserve currency, kinda makes me sick! no person I know wants to discuss the messaging behind the opening of the 2024 Olympics, -the pale green horse-as the empire of Choas is on the outs.
PS: Almost all of the IRS data centers are in a small area in Virginia. If those IRS data centers are destroyed or rendered useless, there goes the IRS's power over us.
In the French Revolution, the peasants burned the tax documents of the government. The data was held in a building in Paris.
The peasants also guillotined every tax worker they could find.
The buildings may be in a small geo-location, but the data is scattered all over the net, and with a few magic incantations, it can all be rebuilt in a few minutes anywhere in the world. Welcome to the blockchain, baby! Enjoy that distributed leger.
I'd like to see the IRS do what you say with their distributed ledger. I don't think they can pull it off. Bureaucrats are lazy and stupid. The techs who do know how to do the job you describe might well sabotage the whole mess.
Again, humans are the weakest link in any system. The Grand Poo-Bahs may well be trying to use AI to circumvent the human problem, but humans program AI. Humans can sabotage it.
The more relevant concept today may be pronoia.
Pronoia is the belief that governments and institutions act in our best interest; that their intentions are fundamentally benevolent, even when outcomes suggest otherwise. At first glance, this trust seems healthy; it stabilizes society and enables cooperation.
But unchecked, it dulls scrutiny; decisions go unchallenged; power operates with less accountability. The risk is not simply misplaced trust, but a widening gap between perception and reality.
Pronoia, left unexamined, can blind just as effectively as paranoia.
You're welcome to write a guest column any time you like.
You went with the literary and philosophical approach, so I'll go with a little cowboy wisdom. When the herd is quiet and seemingly content, that's when all hell breaks loose. Same concept, but yours smells better.
History keeps telling us repeatedly that humans don't behave well with all-encompassing governance structures. That's why communism/socialism/fascism keep failing over and over (amen).It seems the masses need a lesson from time to time that compliance and submission are not part of the human experience. In the end, folks just want to be left alone.
When the herd is quiet and seemingly content, that's when all hell breaks loose. Same concept, but yours smells better.---all it takes is a little flash of lightning.
Or a diamondback, or a cricket chirp. One spooks, they all spook.
Pretty grim future. It's beyond the right time to build an alternative society, decentralized, growing our own food, producing our own energy, crafting a future outside of the control grid. it's happening but the snare is cast far and wide.
As "they" see the future, it's grim, but I believe in human nature and the long history we have of getting unruly just when things seem the most bleak. Whenever I start to get maudlin about the society we have, I always remember Robert Burns:
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley…”
Ah, so wonderfully true.
I tend to agree with you historically however, now with AI, is this time different? The masses are oblivious while the Epstein class rolls on.
What we hear in the public discourse is created and controlled to manipulate the mass mind. Like a magician, you have to figure out what he's trying to hide to see what's really happening.
My only hope (and prayer) Mr. Farside is that the creators of all this, the watchers over this particular human experiment will intercede before total evil can accomplish it's obvious goals. Seems to me that we are close to the end of one of those many 3500 year cycles the ancients talk about, and in this one we walked out of the garden and messed every thing up, I suppose that is part of human nature, Maybe we can do better if given another chance. Meanwhile, it would really be a miserable existence without the support of my front porch rocker, and writers such as yourself to brighten my day
You are very kind, and I agree--the rocking chair is one of humanity's greatest achievements.
I think we are clearly at a major nexus in history. I think there is a natural ebb and flow/rise and fall, and I think there's a group of particularly nasty folks who think they can steer things in their favor. I think they are doomed to failure, but that doesn't seem to be stopping them from trying.
From what I can see, roughly every 500 years everyone snaps and we burn everything to the ground and start over. The self-appointed rulers get greedy and insensitive, the masses get tired of it, there's a mass slaughter and collapse, then everyone goes back to what they were doing. Reminds me of the Star Trek episode "Return of the Archons".
I may be way off base, but it looks like we're in for a helluva ride for the next couple of decades. Got any extra room on your porch for another rocker?
All ready have 2 there on the porch--you would be welcomed anytime.
I'll bring the Patron respotivo and a bag of limes.
I'm surprised that Indonesia can run a data center more complicated than an abacus. Is forgery rampant on the K-mart ID cards? Bribery? Humans are always the weakest link in any system.
The oligarchs should have backed Kamalatoe Harris. Trump's attack on Iran has screwed up all of their plans for the future. What future?
Watching French cinema is torture.
I saw an interview with a man who has lived in France for many years. He said that even in France, you can no longer get a good variety of produce and meat at the stores. Sacré Bleu!
Millions will starve because of the war with Iran. One of Iran's demands is that all Gulf States end all data sharing with the USA.
Data is the power of the state.
Blow up the data centers, or at least, cut their power and water.
Indonesians are facadists. They have a system that looks good, but it's all bubblegum and balin' wire under the hood. The most-hacked entities in the country are government operations. And of course you can buy your way into and out of the system. Indos are great at dodging laws.
Au contraire mon ami. Trump is doing exactly what he was hired to do: bankrupt the US and collapse the empire. The US is the last man standing in the Old World Order, and it needs to come down to make way for the shiny Walmart future!
You're thinking in terms of nation-states and paper/metal currencies. All that will be gone in 25 years. The new system is completely unified top to bottom across the entire planet. Remember the old days when TeeVee had NTSC, PAL and SECAM? Now it's all 1080p widescreen everywhere. No need to convert standards to send a video to another country. Just attach and click SEND. Think ISO. It's all about global standards. No more money changers. We all use the dame digibits.
Standardization and digitization are the key words for the next quarter century.
You are right about what the Grand Poo-Bahs want the future to look like. I don't think they can pull it off any more than they could keep the Covid/Injection/masks/etc. scam going. People won't put up with it.
Besides, the New World Order is very computer/data dependent. Those things break all the time.
There's one consistent feature in history: they can scare everyone into compliance for a while, but as soon as the fear wears off, folks get a little antsy to get back to their daily lives.
"Millions will starve because of the war with Iran." Isn't that the real reason behind this war?
The greatest amount of human suffering certainly appears to be the central motivator for most of the ruling class' actions.
A twist but correlates: the book The Jesus Incident by Herbert & Ransom. I’ve shared oft that humanity either from assistance naturally or by off-shore elements, experience wipe-outs, appears we’ve got another coming……
You're the second person to mention that book in the past month. I'll have to dig it up. It is a consistent theme throughout history that as soon as the self-anointed rulers thing they've got us all corralled, the herd spooks and they have to start from scratch. Sisyphus rules!
You’re assembling a nest, let us know when it’s our turn to warm the eggs.
:D Will do! My butt is already cramping and I need to stretch a bit.
Arrrggghhh! A pirate's life for me!