Posted on 02/21/2025 4:55:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
There’s a story describing how to catch wild pigs. Step one is to scatter some corn in a field to attract them; this must be regularly repeated so that the pigs become accustomed to the offerings.
Step two is to install a single length of fencing in the field. After the pigs became used to the fence, another length would be attached at a ninety degree angle. When the pigs became habituated to the new arrangement, the process would be repeated, with the pigs now feeding in an area that is enclosed on three sides.
The last line of fencing would contain a large gate. When the pigs enter the enclosure to feed, the farmer closes the gate. The animals are now trapped, completely dependent on the farmer for their survival. The farmer meanwhile, now has a convenient source of food and income.
The bait and fence in this analogy have taken new and insidious forms. Governments and private industries are increasingly utilizing computer technologies to monitor and control our activities while providing digital services that, on the surface, make life easier. Rather than being baited with grain, internet users are tempted with convenience and rapid access to all the world has to offer. In exchange, bureaucrats and providers gain greater control over our lives.
Manufacturers are embedding so-called “smart” technologies in homes and appliances. These allow users to remotely control furnaces, air conditioners, and other appliances by using their phones. They also send user information back to their manufacturers, so convenience is accompanied by a loss of privacy and anonymity.
Internet service providers routinely track the websites their customers visit, and social media companies monitor the activities of their users. We exchange the loss of privacy and risks from hacking for the benefits of connectivity.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And cell phones track your movements and record your conversations even when you are not making a phone call.
And like a stupid monkey we refuse to let go of that fruit so we can get our hand out of the jar. This country has gone absolutely stupid for “shiny new” tech that enslaves them. And the likes of Musk, Thiel, Altman, and all the other silicon tech bros love our lack of personal strength to prevent it.
Everyone is begging for their own enslavement out of pure ignorance and laziness... It is disgusting to watch...
“And cell phones track your movements and record your conversations even when you are not making a phone call.”
So are newer cars.
I agree.
BUT...
Isn't that what they might have said about Alexnder Grahm Bell's new talk box in 1876? Or maybe about books and printed material when Gutenberg created the printing press in the 1400s?
Electric Eye - Judas Priest
Up here in space
I’m looking down on you
My laser’s trace
Everything you do
You think you’ve private lives, think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape, I’m watching all the time
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Always in focus
You can’t feel my stare
I zoom into you
But you don’t know I’m there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Electric eye
In the sky
Feel my stare
Always there
There’s nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
I’m elected electric spy
I’m elected
Protective
Detective
Electric eye
bkmk
I have “Onstar” on my vehicle, but am not paying a subscription for something I don’t really need. And the fuse is pulled on that system. And the mirror is also disconnected,so I think I am free of them.
Actually no they didn’t. There was always a benefit that outweighed the bad and there was always an option to use them or not.. But we reached that line and threshold many years ago now. Now the bad far far outweighs the good and there is very little choice but to be sucked into it. The masses are pulling everyone into it against their will.
Try to find a phone booth...
It is other people’s cell phones that are equally scary.
Every citizen with a cell phone has become a spy.
Nowadays the “printing press” reports back to HQ on everything you read—for use for advertisers or criminals or governments (oh wait I repeated myself).
Imagine if the Gutenberg press created a miniature spy that reported to Rome when a book was created and read.
Then heretics could be tracked until the time was ripe to torture and kill them.
Onstar is just the satellite half of the system. Depending on how new the car is they are now bluetooth and WiFi and hooked to the “Internet of Things” around you. Ring cameras, WiFi routers, cell phone data networks... There is a sub-layer channel of ALL these technologies that collects data from everyone and every device it can in real time.
“It is other people’s cell phones that are equally scary.
Every citizen with a cell phone has become a spy.”
Absolutely. It is why phone carriers try their best to keep your bluetooth on all the time. They want them all connected together as a mesh network. Basically a cloud...
Most of us could go back to the ways of the time before the Internet with relative ease. It isn’t all bad, but it isn’t like before it we were scratching in the dirt or using stone tools and bear skins for survival either.
Stay in the lane God puts you today. Love Christ first, your neighbor was created by him. The rest is gibberish, wasting your time and hearing; satan distracting you.
Notice how quiet this thread is? They have embraced this concept lock, stock, and barrel out of pure laziness.
And the problem is we can’t opt out if we wanted to. Just try to find a new car with hand crank windows as an option. It becomes wanted and mandated by the masses. And now cars are locking people inside and killing them because they cannot get out. Small price to pay for new shiny things that satisfy the laziness and convenience of the masses...
Listen, we agree about the effect. But not everyone is drawn in -- I have spent my business life in tech, I carry an iPhone, but trust me, I'm not drawn in.
It's mostly the young people who are getting their brains turned into mush. Not all, but mostly.
Something good has already happened with this tech. I think it is great if a person has some degree of self-control and can use it productively. After all, maybe it's self-control that's the issue -- not the phone. Look at all the obese in our society. Is it the food or the person?
I think there can be a common sense practical compromise. But that is not how we do things. It is all or nothing, from one extreme to the opposite extreme, never any middle ground practical compromise. And we never use it for common good, we always use it for reasons of greed.
The one thing that tech will never change is human nature...
It always feels like...
Somebody’s watching me
And there is not privacy.
Funny this came up today. I recently had to complete a compliance form. It literally had over 100 questions on it this time as opposed to last year.
I have to do this so my customers can enjoy their conveniences at checkout. Instead of simply paying ...cash.
I jokingly told my banker life was so much easier before computers entered our homes, lives, and hands.
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