Someone has to. I was gonna do it but was hoping someone else would.
Yes, civilization died at the advent of the printing press. I like when the new green deal people complain the amount of pollution that refrigerated trucks create while never realizing they are helping you get through a cold winter with fresh vegetables so you don’t have to eat Del Monte canned pea’s probably with sugar. I’ll take a little CO2 in my atmosphere for the trade off. They are unable to see the benefit which is almost obvious.
According to Plato and Socrates, en Masse our collective memories were reduced to prunes vs memorizing long manuscripts and scriptures. They might have sung Homer’s Oddessy way back when. Now, we’re watching it in 4D while eating popcorn while not acknowledging that Homer was writing history, not fantasy. Maybe there is more to the story.
And maybe Socrates had some good points. Not every book was exactly good.
One of two things could happen reading these books. It could go in and you’re like Right on!! Or you can understand the psychology of evil without it going in. So it’s NOT the book, it’s the receiver.
What could is a great book if the receivers software is corrupted?
Maybe, each iteration of remembered technology (I didn’t say discovery) is both a leap forward, or a path to self-destruction and both can exist simultaneously?
Rather than being dogmatic and being polarized to extreme. Jesus did talk about the narrow way or as Someset Maughm called it, the Razor’s Edge. Going to neither extreme of for or against for every technology might be a reflection of time past. Just nobody remembers.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
“What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.”
What if the age of flight, the nuclear age, the age of computer aren’t new and people saw them all coming?
For those of you who study ancient civilizations and technologies, you might have heard of the crystal?? What if in ancient civilizations a single crystal could hold libraries of millions of books? Would that be ok? Or would that be evil? I guess it depends who controls the crystal. I guess it all depends on who is in possession of My Precious…
Each iteration of mass communication allows for greater access to information, learning, art etc… Martin Luther used the printing press to get things done and take down corruption. And others misused it.
How can I say the light bulb was a great discovery and in the same breath say that the use of a light bulb to illuminate pictures in your living room through a tv is bad?
You’re free to use discretion on what you allow in your consciousness. People used radio for propaganda, the print medium, television and finally internet and social media for purposes of disinformation. Every new medium is exponential growth on both how it can be misused or society can be benefitted from it or it can be leveraged as a control matrix.
How many people do you know that became couch potato’s, slaves to the remote, waiting for the football game or Jeapordy? In my mind, that’s wasting your life. I get depressed thinking about it. That doesn’t make tv bad. It makes it your addiction vs an occasional break from the stress of every day life or whatever your work is. Balance. And if you’re a self honest person, you know if you’re over doing something and you can spent your time in better ways.
I’m not going to tell another man what he needs to lead a fulfilling life. Maybe he needs tv more than I or finds value where I couldn’t. Maybe he needs to go to the pinball arcade and throw some quarters in a machine and burn some energy. Balance.
People are doing yeoman’s work in medicine. Cataloging untold thousands of botanical medicine where you now have access to information on the spot? I want that. Because I know how difficult it is to juggle through dozens of reference manuals laid out on the floor and the wife walks in and yells, WTF you doing? Hey honey, they told me I was bad because I used electronic medium as an information gathering tool, but you and I set if the next round of virus’s hits the decks.
One medicine person called it stacking intellegence.
Beyond the Great Inversion: Thinking With Artificial Intelligence
Doesn’t seem evil to me. And in a heartbeat, if another pandemic should hit, and some are predicting that we are very close to something, do you have the information resources at hand to battle whatever it is that we might have to deal with? I do…
You’re either going to have to buy ALOT of books. And read them real quick. I’ve been reading about botanical medicine since I was 18 years old and I still have to go back to same references.
And now that John Rapporport is not here to do the research for you, you’re going to have to find a replacement if you haven’t already. I had my remedies in hand before COVID hit. The moment Trump announced official closure of the USA on March 11th? 2020, all the medicine was gone within a week. Information!! .
Didn’t someone post Rick Beato’s video on AI and running it on your own machines so you’re in control?
You don’t have to give your sovereignty over to a machine or a corporation. If you have to ask a machine for a political opinion or you use it like Dear Ann Landers that’s up to you. I don’t feel the machines are equipped to do that kind of advanced reasoning. But as a retrieval device and a calculator or an organization tool? Absolutely nothing evil. Nothing inferior about using technology to your advantage.
And yes, I’m as concerned about the wrong people applying these things in the wrong way for total control although I don’t think they achieve their goals before nature strikes back.
