The Wasteland-Part II

                                                          The Wasteland-Part II

 

      

 

 

                                                              "Resistance is futile."

 

 

                        "That awkward moment when you realize you have no plans for where you're going in life, yet you know exactly what you are going to do in a Zombie apocalypse."

The direction of this writing is the opposite of apocalyptic, which is intentional, proactive, and democratic empowerment. That's why my blog is called Rude Awakening, it is a call to rise from our stuporous, slumbering, trance and take charge of our lives. In order to be freed from prison one must first recognize that one is enslaved, and of course, the easiest way to imprison people is to make them think they are free.

Recent events with the NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden revealed that our government, in cooperation with other governments, collects virtually all transmissions of ANY kind by ANY means. This means that every email, facebook post, google search, tweet, skype, cell phone call, purchase with credit card, or transportation by any means of transit, is captured and is subject to “review/analysis” at any time now or in the future, for pretty much any reason or lack of reason, by the powers that be, which include our government and/or corporate entities. Julian Assange, the publicist of Wiki-leaks, is another whistle blower, who published documents of our governments nefarious deeds, and like Snowden, is charged under the Espionage Act of 1917, which should tell you how up to date and applicable these charges are.

If we extend modern technologic direction to it's obvious conclusions, we can envision, in a not so science fictiony way, that we will soon have “internal” technology that “co-operates” with our own brains, senses, and nervous system. We will literally be “plugged in” to a global neural net in which we will have access to everything, as well as everything and everyone having access to us. There will be one operating system that manages all transactions, be it social, business, informational, economic, personal, public or private. There will be no difference between private and public because; what's good for the individual, is good for the collective and vice verse. There will be an age of “transparency and accountability” unlike anything we've imagined, because there will be cameras embedded everywhere, above, below, surface level, and everything anyone says or does will be documented.

 

There will be a requirement to document and report everything you do under the guise that “secrets are lies,” and “sharing is caring.” Everyone will have an equal right to all knowledge, and if I try and deprive someone of knowing something, it will be seen as stealing. Any attempt of privacy will be seen as a kind of theft, because why would someone try to hide something if they were acting with integrity? All politicians will be videoed 24/7 so there will be no “behind closed door meetings” in which surreptitious agendas are transacted.

There will be sensors in our homes that will scan all our food, clothing, entertainment, etc. and automatically order what it deems we are wanting or running low on. All our medical information will be in the public domain, and there will be no laws of discrimination needed, because all access and use of people's medical history will be deemed necessary for specific, logistical hiring, firing, or moving people to get the care or the job that is appropriate based on their file. People will be pressured to act in the most healthy manner, because their every meal and move will be recorded and publicly posted to pressure them into making healthy choices.

Dating and mating will be fun and painless. Every preference, turn on, turn off, sexual fantasy/orientation, likes/dislikes of everyone will be known and public so matching will purely be a matter of algorithmic correlations of the perfect mate.

If this all sounds too good to be true, it is, it is a dystopic nightmare that is steadily being pulled over our heads like one being abducted to another planet, we are being subsumed and assimilated with or without our consent, into a great whale of technopoly that will digest and incorporate our bodies and minds into it's being not unlike the Borg!