Sometimes I wonder if smartphones and mass computerization were a mistake. On one hand, it allows idiots and malefactors to spread their message and do their evil on a massive scale not imagined years before.
On the other hand, it allows the truth to spread even factor than before and to break through the MSM grip on information. Without the Internet and computers (and maybe my smartphone), I am willing to bet many of us won't be red-pilled in the first place.
I'm starting to think Kaczynski was wrong. The internet has enabled memes to evolve faster than ever. By linking the commies together in a shared space, the could evolve rapidly enough to make the matrix salient. It's not the truth that is freeing us. It is being bombarded with increasingly insane propaganda in real time while witnessing the truth with your own eyes.
I think if I could send one piece of tech back it would be phones. Just make cell phones not a common thing and put pay phones up everywhere. I say this as someone who works in the telecom industry even. I would have still found a career.
This. In the end, smartphones (at least in combo with social media) were a mistake.
Think about it - this is an addictive item which frequently causes anger, depression and envy, and leads to to frequent distraction to the users. 13 years ago it barely existed, and now it is so common that if you don't have one people think you're some type of weirdo and even sometimes mock you for it (at least, in my experience).
Yes, it does give us access to the sum total of human knowledge in the palm of our hands, but many people just use it to look at headlines and then ignore the actual story so they can go look pictures of what people ate for lunch and what their favorite sportsball player or movie star is doing today. (yeah, I know I'm exaggerating some).
If the cell networks were to just shut down tomorrow, I'm certain the world would be a better place.
For the most part, I agree with you, but here's the funny thing... nobody picks on me at work (at a telecom for that matter) for not bothering with facebook or twitter. I do have a rarely-used twitter account, but I think all I've ever done on it was post like 2-3 splatoon pictures. Yeah, that's it.
In a weird way, I think it's more that there's some kind of fear among the populace that they will be left out.
That said, I do run into a fair number of customers who could care less about facebook and twitter so long as facetime and SMS/iMessage work.
Phones are fine. Social media is cancer, but Twitter specifically is a terminal case. The character limits encourage and amplify simplistic thinking and a mob mentality.
If you were going to design a digital lynch mob I don't know if you'd do anything different.
I was more thinking how nice it would be if everyone was forced to disconnect when they got away from home. I know way too many people that wouldn't be able to handle being away from their phone an hour and think it would be good for them.
But yeah, social media is waaay worse than phones. You're spot on it's a digital lynch mob.
As someone who works in telecom I don't think it's changed that much. I just think a lot of the idiocy has moved from desktop machines to handheld devices.
As an example,10 years ago, it seemed like smartphones were rare, but every customer seemingly had a computer. Granted, many of those computers were aging and falling apart and clearly badly maintained.
Nowadays they just have badly maintained smartphones that they treat as badly as the desktop machines they threw away when they thought they didn't need them anymore. (Now excuse me before I get tempted to rant about people with iPhones who don't keep a computer around for hard resets when the dang thing crashes....)
Sometimes I wonder if smartphones and mass computerization were a mistake. On one hand, it allows idiots and malefactors to spread their message and do their evil on a massive scale not imagined years before.
On the other hand, it allows the truth to spread even factor than before and to break through the MSM grip on information. Without the Internet and computers (and maybe my smartphone), I am willing to bet many of us won't be red-pilled in the first place.
I'm starting to think Kaczynski was wrong. The internet has enabled memes to evolve faster than ever. By linking the commies together in a shared space, the could evolve rapidly enough to make the matrix salient. It's not the truth that is freeing us. It is being bombarded with increasingly insane propaganda in real time while witnessing the truth with your own eyes.
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I think if I could send one piece of tech back it would be phones. Just make cell phones not a common thing and put pay phones up everywhere. I say this as someone who works in the telecom industry even. I would have still found a career.
This. In the end, smartphones (at least in combo with social media) were a mistake.
Think about it - this is an addictive item which frequently causes anger, depression and envy, and leads to to frequent distraction to the users. 13 years ago it barely existed, and now it is so common that if you don't have one people think you're some type of weirdo and even sometimes mock you for it (at least, in my experience).
Yes, it does give us access to the sum total of human knowledge in the palm of our hands, but many people just use it to look at headlines and then ignore the actual story so they can go look pictures of what people ate for lunch and what their favorite sportsball player or movie star is doing today. (yeah, I know I'm exaggerating some).
If the cell networks were to just shut down tomorrow, I'm certain the world would be a better place.
For the most part, I agree with you, but here's the funny thing... nobody picks on me at work (at a telecom for that matter) for not bothering with facebook or twitter. I do have a rarely-used twitter account, but I think all I've ever done on it was post like 2-3 splatoon pictures. Yeah, that's it.
In a weird way, I think it's more that there's some kind of fear among the populace that they will be left out.
That said, I do run into a fair number of customers who could care less about facebook and twitter so long as facetime and SMS/iMessage work.
Phones are fine. Social media is cancer, but Twitter specifically is a terminal case. The character limits encourage and amplify simplistic thinking and a mob mentality.
If you were going to design a digital lynch mob I don't know if you'd do anything different.
I was more thinking how nice it would be if everyone was forced to disconnect when they got away from home. I know way too many people that wouldn't be able to handle being away from their phone an hour and think it would be good for them.
But yeah, social media is waaay worse than phones. You're spot on it's a digital lynch mob.
As someone who works in telecom I don't think it's changed that much. I just think a lot of the idiocy has moved from desktop machines to handheld devices.
As an example,10 years ago, it seemed like smartphones were rare, but every customer seemingly had a computer. Granted, many of those computers were aging and falling apart and clearly badly maintained.
Nowadays they just have badly maintained smartphones that they treat as badly as the desktop machines they threw away when they thought they didn't need them anymore. (Now excuse me before I get tempted to rant about people with iPhones who don't keep a computer around for hard resets when the dang thing crashes....)