There
is but one thing to be done, though how difficult!
The
foolish must become wise -- and that they can never be.
The
value of life they never know;
they
see with the outer eye, but never with the mind,
and praise
the trivial because the good is strange to them.
(quoting Arthur
Schopenhauer, translated by T. Bailey Saunders)
As corporations and people in the United
States have endured to the max over-taxation
and government regulation pushing them down them like a giant corkscrew, U.S.
officials strive to make it more difficult for the burdened to escape the claws
of bureaucratic oppression, in search of nations of residence elsewhere, all
the while waving flags and pretending to be all-American protectors. Instead of reforming taxes and regulations,
we have a government bent more toward ever more control, all nicely,
patriotically -- dangerously and erroneously -- wrapped in the flag, so as to
drown out protests from "un-American" citizens. Why would socialists and new Nazis not
clamor to get a piece of this action? Government agencies and personnel dedicated
to the weakening and destruction of even more American values deserve, perhaps,
Christmas gifts of African fruit bats.
Cute little devils. . .
The world's
public relations firms go nuts:
News reports recently named several powerful and influential PR firms
whose officials will no longer accept clients which deny climate change. What? What?
I think we can all agree that the climate constantly changes, but these
opinion-shifters apparently reference the ridiculous computer model stuff which
declares us in utter chaos soon. This is
all so reminiscent of newspapers and magazines which ran UFO stories only if they were humorous
or absurd; taking such things seriously was forbidden on many an editor's
desk. PR corporations, probably
unrealized even by themselves, are taking the same approach, closing their
minds and embracing the assumed, unproven and nonsensical over the rational and
open-minded, perhaps in order to satisfy the public sheep herds and/or some
internal corporate mentality masturbation fantasy in the flawed science
boardroom. Go figure.
Where did the
boys go? Yes, I know this is the era of women and
girls and this minority and that minority, but what's going on with young men
lately? Maybe it's just me, but almost
every time I watch a TV news or feature story or commercial, or happen upon
something in a magazine, one would think either that boys are the new silent
minority or their numbers are becoming extinct, as those of the female gender
gain considerably more attention. Just
an opinion here, but I wonder if boys of all ages aren't being purposefully
ignored or shut out of various situations in order to enhance the existence of other
folks? The realization that far more
women now often attend universities than men appears both hopeful and troubling
to me. Of course, there are feminists who wish males would disappear from
the face of the planet altogether, but that's a different story. . .
Speaking of men
and boys, I'm going to miss you, Gary McKinnon: Computer Weekly.com (July 29) reports
that England's notorious hacker of American government sites, an innocent boy
just innocently looking for innocent evidence of UFOs, has assumed a career as
an online search expert. Now that he's won
his 10-year legal fight against extradition to the USA, where officials
anxiously anticipated encounters just short of awarding him gift certificates
to the waterboard spa, McKinnon's new duties include working his magic on web
sites to improve their ranking on search engines. As far as that hackneyed old thing about
busting into U.S. military computers (proving, sorry to say, that young Gary
demonstrated ingenuity "they" didn't have -- that is, he hacked what
they lacked. . .), as I've written previously, I looked forward to McKinnon's
guest visit to the United States, and additionally advised that he shine his
shoes to appear top-notch upon arrival in the court system. Sadly, I and the American media shall be
deprived, forcing our attention back to the never-ending pseudo-journalistic
hell known as Kardashianism.
What's
disturbing? The tendency of the White House and other
government institutions to assure that a third person (a "minder")
accompanies officials interviewed by journalists. This "third wheel" remains in the
background, but monitors admissions and/or assists with providing the
"correct" words and information dispensed by the interviewee. The gov will claims that these folks are
present just to assure accuracy of reporting, but the rational among us might
wish to use the word, spy. Big Brother is just the title of a TV
show, right? Sure am glad the White
House employs a battery of psychologists so we'll know what and how to
think. They must be of tremendous
benefit to the whistle blower mentality.
High-tech
investor Elon Musk suggests in Business Insider that artificial
intelligence may well become The Terminator if not carefully
watched. Insignificant me? At a certain
point, I doubt that watching will solve any such impending disaster. It's gonna be digital doom for sure, unless
the computer is sacrificed for something radically different, so different that
the word, computer bears no relationship whatsoever to the
alternative.
