Can anyone point me to a candid video of Susan Wojcicki, head of Youtube, in which she was in a restaurant, talking about using Youtube to shift the election Blue?
If you can go a whole day without disagreeing with someone else, then you’re probably a bee or a wasp who hasn’t left your hive. It looks like you live in a harmonious utopia. But you’re merely one of hundreds of clones.
In democracy, mistakes are made— and corrected— in the process of disagreement. The journey is the disagreement. The destination is a better world.
There’s no end in sight of the disagreements, because yesterday’s solution is today’s problem. The Electoral College, the Senate (2 senators no matter the population—?! What an undemocratic idea, but it kept the slave-holding states content for a while), a lot of Supreme Court decisions, HUAC, were temporary fixes that awaited the facts finally catching up to correct those self-serving biases.
That same impermanence applies to a lot of today’s “settled science” such as: vaccines are safe and effective, humans are causing climate change, Roundup is harmless. In 10 years, thanks to free speech, we’ll realize those “facts” were wrong, just we today we don’t subscribe to some previous truisms: the divine right of kings to rule, the notion that slavery is ethical, and the once “obvious” idea that women are incapable of making national policy.
So, if humans keep on believing untrue things, how can we correct them before they cause (more) damage?
Tip #1: Anything in the mainstream news is quite likely a distraction or a lie. Real news is what people in power want to hide. The rest is spin. Watch out for pretty words like Green, Equity, Stakeholders, Sustainable, and also for fear-based words like Russia, measles, inflation, hate speech, debunked.
Tip #2: Whenever conflict can increase donations to an election campaign or boost voter turnout, then it’s probably a false issue and certain hidden powers don’t want us to solve the problem. Abortion, immigration, vaccine mandates, international policy, children’s gender orientation, what K-12 history books should exclude or include— all of these could be sorted out. Be skeptical whenever someone is fomenting civil strife— that’s how con artists start very profitable wars, or very profitable pandemics, or increase viewership in the corporate-controlled media.
Tip #3: When the opposing parties actually do the same thing when each is in power, then they aren’t actually in opposition. Their words differ, but the outcome is similar: the rich get richer, the powerful gain power, and only when the grassroots organize and discuss problems with the goal of resolving minority concerns, not just settling for Majority Rule, which is all to similar to Mob Rule.
Lord Acton, a Catholic in Protestant England when priests could be murdered by the state, so he experienced this first hand, said, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
The inverse, a lesson for those who really care about representative government, is “Powerlessness corrupts, and absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.”
Excellent analysis! "It’s appropriate that I come clean here about my personal view of Trump. I see him as a silly man, not very smart, pathologically self-promoting, but ultimately less dangerous to our nation than the Deep State agents (D and R), whose subversion of the public good is systematic and has far more history and power behind it." I agree completely.
Thanks Josh. Well reasoned. Google searches were good in the early 2000s, but they gradually morphed to what they are now, refusing to give you the thing you precisely spell out, at times.
Why call it "Surveillance Capitalism" when "Surveillance Racketeering" is perhaps more descriptive.
Racketeering, monopoly and syndicate criminality is the object of the exercise.
The only interests these forces have in free and sovereign markets and private property is predatory. They are looking for oligarchy. They are looking to harvest the lives, property and promise of the true human aristocracy of talent, mutual value and benevolent creativity.
In realistic terms: my state and federal government have spent over a billion dollars ($1 Billion) in recent years to extend high-speed internet access to the last mile of every dirt road in the state. This is a conduit of information, but only information that the controllers ("they") provide to consumers. It is only an off-ramp. There is no ON-RAMP, so far as I can find to date. We peons can not connect to the system ourselves to share our local news, information, and discoveries. even here, i see signs of trouble. be warned
Help, please...
Can anyone point me to a candid video of Susan Wojcicki, head of Youtube, in which she was in a restaurant, talking about using Youtube to shift the election Blue?
If you can go a whole day without disagreeing with someone else, then you’re probably a bee or a wasp who hasn’t left your hive. It looks like you live in a harmonious utopia. But you’re merely one of hundreds of clones.
In democracy, mistakes are made— and corrected— in the process of disagreement. The journey is the disagreement. The destination is a better world.
There’s no end in sight of the disagreements, because yesterday’s solution is today’s problem. The Electoral College, the Senate (2 senators no matter the population—?! What an undemocratic idea, but it kept the slave-holding states content for a while), a lot of Supreme Court decisions, HUAC, were temporary fixes that awaited the facts finally catching up to correct those self-serving biases.
That same impermanence applies to a lot of today’s “settled science” such as: vaccines are safe and effective, humans are causing climate change, Roundup is harmless. In 10 years, thanks to free speech, we’ll realize those “facts” were wrong, just we today we don’t subscribe to some previous truisms: the divine right of kings to rule, the notion that slavery is ethical, and the once “obvious” idea that women are incapable of making national policy.
So, if humans keep on believing untrue things, how can we correct them before they cause (more) damage?
Tip #1: Anything in the mainstream news is quite likely a distraction or a lie. Real news is what people in power want to hide. The rest is spin. Watch out for pretty words like Green, Equity, Stakeholders, Sustainable, and also for fear-based words like Russia, measles, inflation, hate speech, debunked.
Tip #2: Whenever conflict can increase donations to an election campaign or boost voter turnout, then it’s probably a false issue and certain hidden powers don’t want us to solve the problem. Abortion, immigration, vaccine mandates, international policy, children’s gender orientation, what K-12 history books should exclude or include— all of these could be sorted out. Be skeptical whenever someone is fomenting civil strife— that’s how con artists start very profitable wars, or very profitable pandemics, or increase viewership in the corporate-controlled media.
Tip #3: When the opposing parties actually do the same thing when each is in power, then they aren’t actually in opposition. Their words differ, but the outcome is similar: the rich get richer, the powerful gain power, and only when the grassroots organize and discuss problems with the goal of resolving minority concerns, not just settling for Majority Rule, which is all to similar to Mob Rule.
Lord Acton, a Catholic in Protestant England when priests could be murdered by the state, so he experienced this first hand, said, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
The inverse, a lesson for those who really care about representative government, is “Powerlessness corrupts, and absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.”
Excellent analysis! "It’s appropriate that I come clean here about my personal view of Trump. I see him as a silly man, not very smart, pathologically self-promoting, but ultimately less dangerous to our nation than the Deep State agents (D and R), whose subversion of the public good is systematic and has far more history and power behind it." I agree completely.
Great article. Very insightful. Thank you, sir!
Thanks Josh. Well reasoned. Google searches were good in the early 2000s, but they gradually morphed to what they are now, refusing to give you the thing you precisely spell out, at times.
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Why call it "Surveillance Capitalism" when "Surveillance Racketeering" is perhaps more descriptive.
Racketeering, monopoly and syndicate criminality is the object of the exercise.
The only interests these forces have in free and sovereign markets and private property is predatory. They are looking for oligarchy. They are looking to harvest the lives, property and promise of the true human aristocracy of talent, mutual value and benevolent creativity.
In realistic terms: my state and federal government have spent over a billion dollars ($1 Billion) in recent years to extend high-speed internet access to the last mile of every dirt road in the state. This is a conduit of information, but only information that the controllers ("they") provide to consumers. It is only an off-ramp. There is no ON-RAMP, so far as I can find to date. We peons can not connect to the system ourselves to share our local news, information, and discoveries. even here, i see signs of trouble. be warned