Wake up! We've Been Googl'd!

Technofascists want us to believe that technology is better than human beings when it comes to satisfying human desires, particularly the desire for knowledge.  There are three basic reasons for this and these are the main principles that technofascists hold:

1) Machines have objectivity. They are not biased. Objectivity is best.
2) Machines are faster than human beings. Faster is better than slower.
3) Machines should be a way of life, not a tool.
4) Revenge of the Nerds

 

In the case of Google, the Alexandrian library of the people,  that machine who has relieved of us the drudgery of libraries and cranky librarians, the robot who delivers our every desire at the click of a mouse, has admitted to violating principle #1 of the technofascist credo:

Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It's a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance.

Not so very long ago, Google disclaimed responsibility for its search results by explaining that these were chosen by a computer algorithm. The disclaimer lives on at Google News, where we are assured that:

The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program. - The Register

Now, as my readers know (I hope), I love technology. I work in the technology industry, after all.  I know how useful technology as a tool can be. However, it is only a tool and nothing more. It is not the solution to the problem of Truth and Knowledge.  It is not better at living my life than I am. I can live without it if necessary, and if I had to choose between having either farmer or a computer technologist, I would choose the farmer.

We have deified technology, like we have deified Obama, to the point where it is posing a dangerous threat to our individual, social and economic integrity. Consider what Alan Cohen noted back in 2003, as the article above in the Register noted:

"If I can operate Google, I can find anything... Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires. Now, for many questions in the world, you ask Google, and increasingly, you can do it without wires, too."  Alan Cohen, V.P. of Airespace, a new Wi-Fi provider, New York Times, 6/29/03

I suppose Cohen believes that God took his benefit package and is enjoying His retirement?

A computer has no particular preference or bias because it is not alive. On the other side of the coin, we can say that a computer dead.  Because of this lack of self-interest, technofascists want you to believe that the computer will make choices better than you would make your choices, as if a dead person would be better suited to make economic decisions than you are. Don't laugh. The Egyptian ruling class deified the dead as being superior and more important than the living. What a great way to dominate an entire people...Reminds me a little of braying to Mecca, pining for twelve virgins and going on mass killing sprees.

Another way to look at this is to consider that [perceived] objectivity is a pre-condition for suicide at worst and self-abrogation at best. After all, a lack of bias means lack of concern for self-interest. A good educated liberal would proudly point out that even the Egyptians knew that death is better than life, just like the Muslims. This state of mind, which is prevalent in a nation of slaves and globalist zombies, is exactly the state of mind that is required in order for a government to steal taxpayer money without punishment, to seat a thoroughly corrupt president in the White House with ease, and to collaborate with the media in order to proliferate its own lies and deceits.

In other words, technology like Google is one of the many tools used to put us to sleep, and Obama's administration plans to make ample use of it. I say this because in the past, before the rise of the Internet, if I wanted to find information about a topic, I would go down to the library and search for as many books as possible written about that topic. It was quite a journey in itself, this form of research, and would involve hours upon hours of reading and analysis. The whole process of learning about a topic is an art in and of itself, and the questions I had were more important than the answers.

I will say it again: The questions are more important than the answers, for the questions are what move you to seek, discover and learn on your own.

A society and culture that wants answers now and answers fast, is a society that is fearful and desperate. It is a society of slaves who will easily mistake a good golden calf for a god, who have lost the ability to think and live for themselves and who no longer have any desire to fight for their intellectual or personal freedom. Last week was a week of utter shame for America, between our economically profligate government, the Godfather in Chicago, the hoodlum that is the president-elect and the indignancy of a shoe being thrown at our current president, I don't know where to begin to describe the disgusting state of our union. And Google meanwhile, that little parasite that feeds off roaches in the walls, is in deals with the Washington-Chicago mafia for a hot job in mass mind control. Where is Ashton Kutcher when you need him?



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