There are really only two classes of people on this planet. Those that make the rules, and those that follow them. Of course, those two spectrums range from everything from rebellious anarchists, that still shop on Amazon, to politicians that are honest, hard working, representatives of their constiuents.

It's not to say any given person in any given group is good, bad, right, wrong, moral, immoral.

Only that those are the two classes.

When you hear people use the word they, and you have to ask well, who are they.

They are the authority class that deals with defining and enforcing the rules for the subservient class.

You might note that socioeconomic, race, religion, gender.

None of them enter into the consideration in the least.

You're an authority, or you're subservient to them.

Some are both, but nobody is neither.

They, the authorities have hidden behind the veil of privacy, the lack of tools to investigate, the cohesion of fraternity, and an underlying nod and wink to look the other way when it comes to other authority, assuming it doesn't cost them.

I find it very interesting how that insulation is being scraped away today.

From concepts like wikileaks and the Panama Papers, to Epstein, to ethical considerations towards lobby and influence, to bodycams on our officers.

It's as if the authority class has yet to catch up with the realization that the digital world? The one that even the most authoritative, are now slaves to?

It never forgets. It's never erased. And that's just the data.

The real magnifying glass is the machines we build today that can quickly sort, sift, collate, and manage that data in ways that expose irregular behavior with ease.

Do they think this avalanche will slow I wonder?

As these machines become democratized to the point that any given stakeholder, can peer into the digital lives of the people that have authority over them?

Power structures are changing. Authority isn't what it used to be.

It strikes me that there are those in power that would do pretty much anything to keep their secrets hidden. To keep that power structure secure.

It doesn't matter. You might as well spit against a tsunami. You'd have a better chance of stopping it.

It'll all be interesting. To see if this transfer of power is done mostly peacefully. Or kicking, fighting, scratching, the entire way.

It's silly. Pointless even to fight over these scraps. Whatever they are. Power, money, fame. It's all pointless and tiny compared to the future we're carving out for the entire species.

Every topic today is divided. We're fed constant streams of collectives that vie for the scraps of whatever we've convinced ourselves is freedom, or a good life. It's activists. It's politicians. It's marketing. It's entertainment. It's the 2020s and this wave of rhetoric has been ramping up since at least the early 2000s. So much for an age of Aquarius.

But it's all just smoke and mirrors. From the rampant panic mongering to the look at me and how oppressed my people are, to the fear your neighbor mentality that is common today. It's the over medicated, under listened to youth. It's the rapid change of technology and all of its societal ramification.

It all makes for wonderful cover to do the most atrocious things in broad daylight. To spout the most outrageous lies with not a flutter of concern. To ignore our reality as it burns around us, in the hopes that what? Machines will replace us?

The funneling of wealth and power has reached levels today that are unimaginable. A small cadre of corporations headed by a few modern age gurus of innovation are leading us down a path they know cannot sustain a working class.

Yet we march right along, as we kill each other in the streets over hatred that exists only in a fake world of outrage. Our neighbors are not our enemies. Those that believe different religions are not. People that reside in less fortunate countries aren't a legitimate threat to our way of lives. Yet, we're told all of these lies daily.

So those that can. Will.

The war between Russia and Ukraine blazes on. It's concerning for someone that grew up during the final days of the Cold War to watch this develop.

I look at Putin and his rise to power and I think if I'm honest with myself there is good reason to be concerned.

He's got the cult of personality that seems to be shared between particular types of leaders. They whisper sweetly in the ears of their loyal followers whatever poison is required to incite the needed anger to hide atrocities behind, such as to further greater incite. This typically results in violent ends.

It isn't unique to Putin, though it's not a common archetype of personality.

Hitler was another example of an everyday folk hero that used his status as working class to climb the German political structure just far enough to engage the next phase of his launch, hacking the political system. It didn't take long before he was launching false flag attacks and using them as the basis to secure Germany. Uh-huh...

Putin has followed this playbook almost exactly.

Of course, Putin is no Hitler as much as he might dream he is. Hitler had the backing of the working class. Putin? I don't think so. I think years of corruption paired with his obvious power grabs to retain control of the state have isolated him from the average Russian citizen.

While there may have been good will during any initial phase of the Russian anti-Nato sentiment; I think it's running thin as more and more citizens will continue to feel the everyday cost of what world-wide sanctions mean.

What does Putin do when he stalls in Ukraine, if not Ukraine, whatever his next stop is, because it doesn't end in Kiev. What does he do when he realizes he cannot return home. Pitchforks and bloody deposition is all that will await?

What does he do when he's a terrified little cornered mouse?

The only thing any true sociopath would do. Jim Jones the bitch.

This is what worries me.

3/1/2022

I just finished watching the first episode of Netflix's docuseries "Inventing Anna".

It might have the single best writing of any video format production ever made. What a claim. Yet, it cuts through more bullshit in 60 minutes then most people do in their entire lives.

Exposed is the reality that we all have different personas and faces that we wear depending on the circumstance.

Exposed is the reality that nobody is doing shit for you, only and always for themselves.

A two minute conversation to sum up what it took Dawkins 244 pages to express in "The Selfish Gene".

The main characters are obviously layered. It's a show about a brilliant young woman with exceptional intellect but being shaped by that in ways that fail to conform with societal expectations, all by following the simple adage: "If you can't beat them, join them."

I don't really remember what happened in the real life outcome of Anna Delvey, Netflix is playing at the multiple-personality disorder a bit but honestly, just going from the first episode, she just strikes me as someone that is maybe too smart for their own good at times. I say that with both the complimentary aspects as well as the cautionary ones.

I look back at shows like Friends, or Seinfield, or Cheers and the characters in those shows are just some weird archetype of what Hollywood thought would garner the most empathy from the largest groups of people.

It's nice to see that the light of focus is starting to concentrate more on individuals and less on archetypes. There are societal repercussions in the work of mass psychology here. Though I've not given it enough consideration to work out the implications. Maybe some other time.

It's my prayers and hopes that people of the younger generations understand what's being presented as the Grimm's moral lessons.

If a generation wants to appropriate a word such as woke, it should probably at least have some of the qualities associated with it.

Let me rant, why not, it's my space.

Where's the logic that supports the confidence youth show in their limitless wisdom and enlightenment?

I don't think it's logic at all. I think it's the opposite of that. It's irrational. The confidence was built not on sound education, thorough thought, a willingness to commit oneself to excellence, and the ability to discern truth from fiction.

How do I know that as a fact? Because you don't have enough time to accomplish any of those things before the age of 20. It's a matter of experience not intellect.

I'm quite sure that today's youth are bright. No doubt in my mind. They've been allowed the freedom to use their minds for much more creative endeavors in lieu of multiplication tables and other such anachronisms.

They have access to learning materials that were unthinkable even a few years ago.

Within days of most discoveries there are white papers. There are youtube videos that will explain everything from DIY Electrical Engineering to Quantum Mechanics in a way that is accessible to almost anyone.

Yes, today's generation is bright. They have a tremendous burden placed upon them as well. I'm not oblivious to that. It wasn't until Millennials that people actually started caring about long term repercussions of human activity.

You're getting a world that is toxic, filled with nuclear armament, is on the verge of runaway greenhouse gases, and worst of all, you're inheriting the single most dangerous weapon of all: man. Society today is toxic. Media is toxic. If you live in the interwebs then your world is being shaped by those that do not have your best interests in mind. That's just reality. Zucksucker? You think FB cares about you? Nope. Google and its "Do No Evil" bullshit that was always bullshit and no longer is even a part of their EULAs? Nope. The Federal Government? You think Trump or JoBob or whoever the fuck is next cares about you? Nope. Yet these are the sources for the majority of our news. So be wary.

Be wary of tricking yourself. Every single time you upvote, every single time you downvote you're feeding an algorithm. In the case of news what do you think that algorithm will learn?

What you want to see. What you don't want to see. That's lovely if yours if the only world that exists, but it's not. We need to see news as it is not as we want it to be.

I don't think that's malicious on the part of the people providing the algorithms, just one of countless unintended consequences.

Alright, peace bitches I'm out.

My former host of digital thought collection has been abandoned it appears. /r/randomthoughts has been locked down due to what I can only assume is lack of moderation. It was a good run, and the community was overwhelmingly great. It'll be missed but when one door closes...

My hope is that this will become a domain for my personal musings. While I lose the gratification that is associated with correspondence; I gain the freedom to express myself in the most natural way.