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Misstated and wanted to correct for clarity, its the intersection of the non-sedition related Q commentary and Potus tweets.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Esther Inglis-Arkell is commenting on entirely something else over at Gizmodo but expresses this thought better than I:
"I think Clarke meant that technology and magic were the same to the uninitiated. Tell a person who is totally ignorant of, say, television that the pictures on a television are something you personally create with magic and tell them that it's vast web of interconnecting technologies, and their response is largely the same. Then again, most people are "ignorant" of television, in any practical sense. Even those who know the basic physical concepts behind the idea wouldn't be able to reconstruct a television, or even most of the parts of a television. When it comes to making even the plastic casing that surrounds the technology, all but a few people in a thousand would be completely stumped. We've never learned how to do it.

But we assume that, given the right training and resources, we could learn how to do it. This is why, no matter what wonders scientists produce in a lab, from an electronic limb that amputees move using their thoughts to animal-less meat, we don't point at them and shout, "Sorcerers!" We have no idea how it's done but we sense that, given time and teaching, we could do it, too. Even the most extraordinary feats, which we are entirely ignorant about, we write off as science and technology.

Sadly, this is a fact. Too often too many are so intellectually damaged by the intentional miseducation in our system that they walk away and silently vow to never learn bother to struggle to learn something new ever again. This is compounded by the fact that as each of us become more specialized the education and experience required to understand creates a barrier to casual development of understanding by one of what the other is doing and why.

This is why giving away the internet was a far larger crime than I think many understand. Its only by keeping us all dumbed down and separated by the difficulty of sharing our experience and training that governments can keep us all wondering at the magic that occurs around us every day.

I think that much of what we are looking for is encoded but unintentionally so by those doing it, theyre only using the language of the specialist. The intent to deceive is on the part of miseducators, enemedia, and the DS actors that seek to exacerbate the divides.

Im not ashamed to admit that its taking me hours to slog through single sentences to understand what is actually being said and why these things are being studied. How many others would even bother to try?

When vascular diseases are largely gone and cancer is cured there are going to be a couple of players in pharma that are going to crash hard and DS is going to lose a significant percentage of shock troops.