Posted on 08/10/2021 7:57:36 AM PDT by Starman417
Sometimes art imitates life and sometimes life imitates art. Today we are living the latter… and it’s called The Terminator. Little did we know when we first watched Arnold utter “I’ll be back” in 1984 that we were watching our real future.
For those who don’t remember, Terminator was set in 1984 Los Angeles when a cyborg is sent back from 2029 to kill Sarah Connor. The premise is that at some point Skynet, an artificial intelligence defense system, had gained self-awareness and launched a nuclear war in its effort to destroy civilization and the humans who built it. A resistance had formed and John Connor was leading it to victory over Skynet. In a last-ditch attempt for victory Skynet sent the Terminator back in time to kill Sarah Connor before her son, John could be born.
While the names may have been changed to protect the not-so innocent and while we may not be in 1984, make no mistake, we are very much in the throes of the apocalypse that Linda Hamilton was driving off into the sunset to face.
Our Skynet is called Silicon Valley and its comrades of the American left. Unlike Skynet, which gained self-awareness, Silicon Valley, is full of people who seem to have no self-awareness at all. They proffer ideas that normal people recognize as ludicrous such as men can give birth, America is systemically racist and defunding police leads to safer streets, yet they think they are correct about everything. Just look at the world they exist in. The Bay Area is overrun with homelessness, drug addicts sprawled out on the sidewalks, the streets are covered with human feces and hypodermic needles, violence is raging out of control and so many criminals shoplift with impunity in full view of employees and cameras that national chains and mom & pop shops alike are having to close their doors because they’re losing so much money. What’s more, their calls for defunding police persist, despite extraordinary spikes of violence.
The left is anything but self-aware. They push insane policies that lead to the literal destruction of society and somehow believe they are standing up for the oppressed. They claim that America is racist while in fact the United States may be the least racist nation on the planet.
Of course, none of this would matter if Silicon Valley were today just the sleepy erstwhile farmland it was when Hewlett & Packard launched their company in 1939, or even as late as 1976 when Apple was launched. But Silicon Valley is no longer that tranquil, serene suburb, but rather it has become the hub of our Skynet. Silicon Valley, between social media, information hosting, and communications, has gained a stranglehold on virtually every American citizen. Privacy no longer exists. Free exchange of ideas no longer exists. Opinions that differ from the approved script are no longer allowed and are banned from the public square.
Silicon Valley in general and social media, in particular, have set Americans against one another every bit as much as Skynet set humans against one another via nuclear war. The truth is, social media is even more insidious than Skynet. At least with nuclear war, you understand the enemy is indeed an enemy and you recognize that mortal danger that lies ahead. Social media creates enemies where there used to be friendship, it creates victim oppressor relationships where none exist, it provides tools for groups to attack individuals with unapproved ideas and do so both online and off, usually with impunity.
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Popcorn please!!!
It will not be the military developing a defense system that goes berserk.
It will be The Robot Wars.
Robots fighting robots.
AI, robots, and the desire for AI & robots should concern everyone.
No doubt AI is already being use for digital espionage. And the robots are becoming quite capable.
If “scientists” are willing to harvest organs from newborns, the unethical drive towards Skynet should be considered a real possibility.
Terminator 3 —
Robert Brewster : Skynet? The virus has infected Skynet?
John Connor : Skynet IS the virus. It’s the reason everything’s falling apart!
Sorta like the weather, as they say in time travel circles, if you don’t like your current time-line, just wait around a while. You just wont know once the past has been changed, because you will too.
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The author is a retard.
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