Rats.

[Ray9]

One can predict what’s coming because nothing ever really changes in the human condition. The compulsion of some people to rat out others because they believe they are on the right side of the state exists now in the United States just as it did in 1933 Germany and later, the Soviet Union. The explosion of new technology has now made it possible for everyone to become a surveillance monitor for the state. People can be fired from their jobs and businesses boycotted when some “watcher” for the state posts a cell phone video on social media.

With businesses reopening in this new age of pandemic panic, no one really has any idea how to stay safe from exposure especially since the experts issue conflicting advice that changes with the wind direction. Anyone old enough to remember OJ Simpson’s 1995 Trial of the Century knows what experts are worth, most fall somewhere between Confederate money and Flat Earth Science. But experts there are, so the state experts proclaim a set of rules for all to follow based on the directives of those other experts. Fighting a pandemic now plays second fiddle to CYA on a local and national scale.

This is where it gets interesting. There was no widespread use of cell phone technology in 1995 and certainly no camera phones. There were personal computers but no social media like there is today; no Facebook, no Twitter or anything that even remotely resembles what has become a national information obsession that has no equivalent in human history.

Now anyone can subvert the well being of a business owner or a poorly paid employee simply by gaining access to the premises and sneaking around to take incriminating phone videos. Who does that? Well, lots of people want to be media sensations and seek hero worship from peers on social media. The power of being able to destroy others is like a drug.

Maybe a bartender didn’t where a mask properly or perhaps a waitress touched something without a glove. As a self-appointed secret undercover state investigator, anyone can put another person out of a job with a furtive spy film right from their phone. It’s a power trip.

Is a nation full of rats the way we want to go? Didn’t we learn anything from the Nazis or the Soviets? Apparently not, as you will see.

 

[night_son]

One can predict what’s coming because nothing ever really changes in the human condition. The compulsion of some people to rat out others because they believe they are on the right side of the state exists now in the United States just as it did in 1933 Germany and later, the Soviet Union. The explosion of new technology has now made it possible for everyone to become a surveillance monitor for the state. People can be fired from their jobs and businesses boycotted when some “watcher” for the state posts a cell phone video on social media.

With businesses reopening in this new age of pandemic panic, no one really has any idea how to stay safe from exposure especially since the experts issue conflicting advice that changes with the wind direction. Anyone old enough to remember OJ Simpson’s 1995 Trial of the Century knows what experts are worth, most fall somewhere between Confederate money and Flat Earth Science. But experts there are, so the state experts proclaim a set of rules for all to follow based on the directives of those other experts. Fighting a pandemic now plays second fiddle to CYA on a local and national scale.

This is where it gets interesting. There was no widespread use of cell phone technology in 1995 and certainly no camera phones. There were personal computers but no social media like there is today; no Facebook, no Twitter or anything that even remotely resembles what has become a national information obsession that has no equivalent in human history.

Now anyone can subvert the well being of a business owner or a poorly paid employee simply by gaining access to the premises and sneaking around to take incriminating phone videos. Who does that? Well, lots of people want to be media sensations and seek hero worship from peers on social media. The power of being able to destroy others is like a drug.

Maybe a bartender didn’t where a mask properly or perhaps a waitress touched something without a glove. As a self-appointed secret undercover state investigator, anyone can put another person out of a job with a furtive spy film right from their phone. It’s a power trip.

Is a nation full of rats the way we want to go? Didn’t we learn anything from the Nazis or the Soviets? Apparently not, as you will see.

Not that it much matters, however, the new Soviets perfected the tattletale state long before Hitler's rise—during and after the Bolshevik Revolution. For perspective into what's destroying our civilization, one must first understand the mind of the average internet "cool kid" of our Age. Internet cool kids live to accumulate social media currency in the forms of "likes" and "views", "thumbs up" and making other internet kids cry their eyes out. In short, the cool internet kid culture is one of abject, real-time cruelty; a religion where the hardest hearts and sharpest tongues are worshipped and successful exploitation of fellow human beings is godlike.

Now, all of that being said and armed with better understanding of the people we're dealing with, both online and off, what else can you expect? A majority of kindness? Not a chance. Exploitation of fellow human beings is everything to today's social pop culture. Everyone wants to be in charge, feel powerful, hold some level of authority—over someone else. In today's world the Snitch State sort of just happens naturally.

Further, pop culture and social media have just about murdered God from the minds of most youth. Many youth one meets online, goes for young adults as well, believe they are their own gods; meaning they also believe they're entitled to do whatever they want, whenever they want, to whomever they choose. Nietzsche was spot on in his predictions about a civilization where God no longer existed in the culture, societies or minds of men. We're on the edge of living such a time right now. See how merry and bright it looks in today's previews?

 

[Ray9]

Not that it much matters, however, the new Soviets perfected the tattletale state long before Hitler's rise—during and after the Bolshevik Revolution. For perspective into what's destroying our civilization, one must first understand the mind of the average internet "cool kid" of our Age. Internet cool kids live to accumulate social media currency in the forms of "likes" and "views", "thumbs up" and making other internet kids cry their eyes out. In short, the cool internet kid culture is one of abject, real-time cruelty; a religion where the hardest hearts and sharpest tongues are worshipped and successful exploitation of fellow human beings is godlike.

Now, all of that being said and armed with better understanding of the people we're dealing with, both online and off, what else can you expect? A majority of kindness? Not a chance. Exploitation of fellow human beings is everything to today's social pop culture. Everyone wants to be in charge, feel powerful, hold some level of authority—over someone else. In today's world the Snitch State sort of just happens naturally.

Further, pop culture and social media have just about murdered God from the minds of most youth. Many youth one meets online, goes for young adults as well, believe they are their own gods; meaning they also believe they're entitled to do whatever they want, whenever they want, to whomever they choose. Nietzsche was spot on in his predictions about a civilization where God no longer existed in the culture, societies or minds of men. We're on the edge of living such a time right now. See how merry and bright it looks in today's previews?

You said it better than me. I hate it when that happens.

 

[ReinyDays]

Reported ...

 

[night_son]

You said it better than me. I hate it when that happens.

On the contrary, I look forward to reading your posts. Thanks.