The Voice of Man

My greatest gripe with the modern world is simple: no one wants to read anymore. Messages are encoded in video clips rather than written form. When I click a video link, I immediately search for a transcript — I read and assimilate information far faster than video allows. Beyond speed, video tends to distract from the core message, which leads me to suspect that in this new AI-driven era of questionable reality, something or someone is deliberately engineering that distraction.

Lets take that in a different direction for a moment: The Bible, in ALL of its many variations. SO many texts left out in the original document as defined at the Council of Nicea, supported by Emporer Constantine. and for near 1000 years (after all the Gnostics and other ‘heretics’ were removed and buried, was (and in some places, still is) considered the word of GOD.

Then in 1945, some shepard found the “Nag Hammadi” texts (scrolls) and there were the Dead Sea Scrolls, many of which have been cross-referenced with the Ethiopian Bible that hasn’t been adulterated (we think) by Councils supported and financed by the Holy See or some emperor/king as a poke in the eye at some Pope. We’ve had mulitple divisions of the beliefs across the years; protestant, evangilical, baptist, and on and on and on.

And every one claims “The Ultimate Truth” status,,,,

” Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong”

And no one wants to read anymore (broadbrush statement, not completey true, but close enough, eh?)

sigh,,,,

Reading

Music

Things that actually EXERCISE the brain,,,

The brain is like a muscle; if you don’t use muscle, the body starts to reabsorb what is ‘not needed’ and that area gets weaker. Our brain, that interface between the ‘reality here’ and reality conciousness gets weak, succeptable to infection, easily manipulated,,,

Industrial disease: Mark Knopfler NAILED it in ’82, di’nt’he?

I haven’t dropped out of society, even while I have rejected so much of our modern world by going off-grid and Hermit. I am NOT a Luddite: the fact that I am blogging on the internet using a modern ‘smartphone’ says that. BUT I am quickly reaching a consensus that much of our modern world is “TOO MUCH”. From our CanBus operated cars that can shut down because a daggum tail-light is out, or can be ‘jacked’ using what amounts to a tablet and a small two wire connection (that canbus thing again). The fact that most vehicles made after 2015 are not servicable by your local shadetree mechanic, let alone your DIY’er, but MUST be Dealer Serviced or by some operator that is able to pay the subscription fees to the dealer networks. (One guy local pays over $3000/yr for that privilege)

Or lets take it on another twist: all the updates to systems to ‘keep abreast of hackers or blackhat characters”. I gave up on Windoze after the last OS upgrade. I had roughly 80000 words written for my Wings sequel on that machine and couldn’t access it because the system was out of date. I couldn’t even backup the backup of it because of that issue. I blew the F! up, tossed that laptop into the yard, came back in, grabbed up my Henry and DUMPED the entire magazine into that damned machine. Yes, overkill, but when the battery burst into flames, OH SO SATISFYING at that moment.

All of this progress… yeah, it keeps profit flowing—that’s the point. Built-in obsolescence, baked right in to keep the economic current moving. But there’s a cost, and it’s a big one: the slow erosion of individual sovereignty. We don’t have the same independence we grew up with in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s—back when a phone was tied to a place, not glued to your hand 24/7. Back then, when something broke, you figured it out—fixed it, patched it, repurposed it, made it work. Now? Something breaks and that’s it—you replace it, not because you want to, but because you can’t fix it anymore.

And honestly… I’m still surprised our landfills aren’t overflowing more than they already are

AH,,, and that brings me back around to the main point VOICE OF MAN. there is always a faction(s) in pursuit of CONTROL, and really, thats the main point behind our current ‘Progress” and “Tech trends”: ‘”Get ’em hooked, then ration the access. Keep ’em ‘just high enough’ and no more.” Some are harping that AI is gonna destroy us,. I won’t argue that point as there are people behind that tech that DO desire power over everything else. BUT, and here’s the punchline. AI is written by MAN. Even those that have written their higher forms were limited in scope by what MAN told it.

Our guiding principles were written by MAN claiming Divine Guidance: always a suspect statement because it requires ZERO proof and is completely CHARISMA fueled. No, I am not saying everything is wrong, We need structure/guidance or we would never have came down from the trees or lasted longer than the first tribal war.

Where’s the balance? TO be heard, you need a certain amount of power, (even here,, I borrow power to transmit these words, but beyond that I have so little power to reach further. You either get the message or you don’t and with my readership around LOW triple digits,,, I don’t reach many.) To have power in many instances is a heady drug, very addictive, and that leads to excesses, like we are seeing come to fruition in modern times vs those I grew up in. The times where I consider (now) that we were more free than EVER before or since. (and yes, I am biased for my formative years, just as you are your’n) I think the only way we, as a species were any more free was when we were banging the rocks together and tribe was IT, not this extended GOVERNMENT crap that, we may know the faces, but we can’t “Reach out and slap the Fucker when he most needs it”

And yet, those same ‘untouchables’ are the driving force behind our current state of dependence on tech.

No answers—just more questions… and that’s what pushed me inward. Reality’s a stone-cold bitch, no doubt about it, but I do believe our thoughts shape more of our current state than we give them credit for. And as long as the tech keeps humming along, the spiral continues—more dependence, deeper reliance, less self-sufficiency—until something gives. Because something always does. And when it finally fractures, when that reset hits… it’s not going to be gentle.

Such loverly thinks for an Easter Sonday No?

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