The Machine Man
So, what makes us so unique and special?
Is it our intelligence, our skills, or is it something more than us, a Force acting through us?
If the latter, then isn't the Force expressing itself
through us that which makes us unique and special?
It's not really us, but it's this Force which should stand in the spotlight we all too often claim for ourselves.
It is this Force which bestows a special glow on
whatever we do or say.
It is the presence of a greater dimension reaching out
into the physical dimension, testifying of a presence and splendor greatly superseding any beauty we can hope to find on Earth.
Without this Force, the best we can hope for is
intellect stretching its muscle.
Yet mere intellectual products miss that special glow, the
right Spirit hiding behind that special painting, or that moving music we hear.
Intellectual products show a processor at work on a
level from whence it can never escape, because the intellect cannot give real
meaning to anything, it can only process and present concepts which are derived
from the processing function of the intellect.
The output is confined to the level of the physical
dimension.
Yet we are not a physical Body.
We are Spirits with a human Soul operating in the physical realm by means of the physical interface of the Body.
It is the Spirit reaching out through music or a painting which touches our own Spirit, and which gives anything we produce that special glow transcending the physical dimension.
Shutting yourself off from the Spirit, you become an Earth-dweller.
The Earth-dwellers operate on the level of the
intellect only, and their concept of originality consists of recombining
existing elements in new ways so that an appearance of originality is created,
albeit an appearance which lacks the glow of the extra dimension the Spirit
bestows on everything.
Earth-dwellers have created a Spiritual blindness, and because of this blindness in the Spirit they cannot perceive how Dark Spirits play their game of deception, and deceive them by means of their intellectual muscle.
Likewise, a concept of 'progress' exists which is born from this Spiritual blindness and which sweeps people along in its torrential current, only to discover afterwards
that the 'progress' was 'regress' in disguise, and destruction was its fruit.
Progress all too often is synonymous with deviation
for the sake of deviation, a reactionary movement to what is and the ones who
seek to preserve that which is, the conservatives.
Conservatives may be just as mindless, conserving for
the sake of conservation and not distinguishing between what is worth
conserving and what is not.
In that capacity both conservatism and progressiveness
are twin brothers of conformity and rebellion, and the dynamics interaction between the two shapes and confirms their identity.
When being progressive becomes a compulsive need to
'do things differently', the danger is that you end up rejecting that which is
good and worthwhile in exchange for something inferior.
If a blender is designed to blend fruit and
vegetables, then deviation from that use by trying to use the blender as a
hammer may be considered as 'progress', but will this 'progress' result in a
better use of the blender, is this 'progress' something to be desired?
'Change, we want change', cried the spoiled and bored people of America, and so they gave their votes to the one who promised change and brought them exactly what they wanted, progress in motion.
He gave the USA a change for the worse, and did any of the Earth-dwellers who voted for Obama bother to ask about the nature of his promised change when they shouted 'change, change'?
Yet the credo of 'change' motivates many 'progressives' today to abandon the things which have proven their value and
their worth, only to replace them with new substitutes which turn out to be
inferior and which all too often have very negative side effects which were not
anticipated.
Take for instance genetic manipulation of food which
produces larger crops, bigger cows, more milk.
Our Creator did not make mistakes when He designed our
food and created the cows, and by altering His design companies like Monsanto create products which may look and taste like food, but which end up
destroying the Body.
And when the Body begins to suffer from eating
synthetic facsimiles, people are forwarded to the pharmaceutical industry for a
synthetic cure which tends to obscure symptoms at the expense of harming other
(healthy) parts of the Body.
Just as large predatory companies like Monsanto turn
their food scam into a profitable business, the pharmaceutical industry turns
its health scam into a holy money maker.
And people end up as commercial products serving the wallets of
those in charge of the companies, sacrificing their lives as they partake of
the forbidden fruits of the Lie.
They eat from the forbidden fruit which triggers the alarm signal of a disease sending a clear message, then they run to the pharmaceutical wizzards who give them a magic potion which turns off the alarm signal without addressing the cause, so that their patients can return to their former ways and donate their money to the Monsantos of this world.
They eat from the forbidden fruit which triggers the alarm signal of a disease sending a clear message, then they run to the pharmaceutical wizzards who give them a magic potion which turns off the alarm signal without addressing the cause, so that their patients can return to their former ways and donate their money to the Monsantos of this world.
But, who cares, it's progress, right?
Sometimes to get where you want to be, sacrifices have to be made, right?
We can make BETTER food than YHWH, we can change our
DNA so that we can beat the grim reaper, we can make ourselves BETTER than YHWH's design of us, right?
Perfection cannot be improved.
So if you have a perfect product, like an orange or a cucumber, and you begin to tinker with the genetic code of the fruit or vegetable, then by labeling your new end products, which yield a higher crop, or bigger oranges or cucumbers, as 'progress', you hold up a Lie to the people, because your progress is regress in disguise.
So if you have a perfect product, like an orange or a cucumber, and you begin to tinker with the genetic code of the fruit or vegetable, then by labeling your new end products, which yield a higher crop, or bigger oranges or cucumbers, as 'progress', you hold up a Lie to the people, because your progress is regress in disguise.
It is not an improvement for man at all, and it is not 'progress' but 'regress'.
Deviation from perfection will never yield a better
product.
Any deviation from perfection results in imperfection,
and that is not true progress.
If our perfect Creator designs the code for perfect
food, food which provides us with nutrients our Body is designed to absorb and
which keep us healthy, then by changing that code you end up creating an
inferior product, even though it may yield bigger crops and be resistant to
bugs and diseases.
Unless of course you can change the human Body by
means of genetic manipulation so that it becomes immune to the side effects of
your synthetic food.
A synthetic Body for synthetic food.
But if you 'upgrade' the human Body by means of
genetic modification, what makes you sure that we still remain human, what
makes you sure that a human Soul and Spirit can still live in such a Body?
Then again, those who have become Earth-dwellers do not acknowledge the existence of a Spirit and a Soul, so they have no qualms about signing away their identity as human beings in exchange for the vain promise of a Lie they are unable to identify as such in their blindness.
In our current state we certainly are not perfect.
We are subject to disease, degeneration and Death.
But our Creator had a purpose in mind when He allowed
our DNA to be modified so that we would come to know Death and degeneration.
To tinker on the physical level by changing the DNA, scientist are meddling with a black box, as evidenced by the fact that they
have labeled part of our DNA as 'junk'-DNA.
Suppose this 'junk'-strand of DNA is there to allow
YHWH to activate parts of it so that we can be transformed?
Changing the DNA may disable the switches in the DNA of the genetically altered
person so that he/she cannot be transformed into a better immortal human being when YHWH issues the command.
In the name of 'progress' people often end up on the
path of regression, producing inferior, even worthless destructive garbage to
substitute what was good.
And the reason is simply because they operate on the
level of the intellect of the physical Body, which is influenced and
manipulated by invisible Shadows who push buttons to steer the processing
muscle of the intellect in a certain direction to arrive at a certain desired end result.
It is the subversion of the concepts of conservatism
and progressiveness which produces the dynamics driving us into the abyss.
In the hands of the Adversary conservatism becomes the
right hand and progressiveness the left hand, and the ball tossed back and
forth between the two acquires a destructive influence which ultimately can
destroy an entire nation.
When a nation conserves a good morality based on
YHWH's original design, then the Fallen One sets his Shadows to work on an
attack campaign against conservatism.
Being progressive becomes hip, cool, and if you are
conservative you are regarded as an oddball lacking intellectual skills to
escape conformity to the plastic culture of parents, teachers and politicians.
Thus social pressure is applied to convert the people
of a nation into a conglomerate which is open for experimentation with moral
and ethical values, a collective which acquires a greater animosity towards
YHWH's values as it descends into the pit of false values and corrupt morals.
We can see this at work in our nations today,
especially the USA, a former Christian nation where today Christians are being
considered as enemies of the state, a nation which used to be composed of
strong individuals willing to sacrifice their lives for the ideal of
independence and freedom instead of the current generation which sheepishly
tolerates a dictatorial president who has no qualms about robbing the entire
nation of their independence and freedom.
The character of the subversive Shadows operating the
strings of the hearts of the people comes to the surface and becomes more
explicit as the people widen their embrace of Darkness and grow into vehicles of hidden Shadow Zone.
When a society has been completely corrupted and has
exchanged YHWH's moral principles for false principles (which will never work because
we are not designed to operate on those principles), conservatism comes into
vogue.
Only this conservatism of the new corrupt principles
is not called conservatism, it is seen as 'staying in tune with the progressive credo of forward thinking people', 'keeping up with the times'.
They have gone to such extremes to make conservatism sound like a bad, moronic disease of society that they will do anything to avoid becoming called the 'new conservatives'.
They have gone to such extremes to make conservatism sound like a bad, moronic disease of society that they will do anything to avoid becoming called the 'new conservatives'.
Truth is that by clinging to the false prevailing
principles of the Satanic society, the former 'forward-thinking liberal architects' (of destruction) become the new conservatives, while
the ones seeking to replace those false principles with YHWH's principles become
the new progressives, only they are labeled as 'ultra-extreme-conservative bigots'.
Yet in those circumstances the latter category becomes the true progressives advocating a good kind of progressiveness, one
which seeks to replace that which is inferior with something which is better.
That is true progress.
The strategic make-over of our nations in the image of
the Shadows happens through the subversion of the progressive movement where
'being progressive' becomes synonymous with being 'anti-YHWH'.
'We all need to
progress, because to stand still is to regress', so we are told.
And as we comply with the indoctrination, we conform to Darkness and we end up moving backward, not forward.
Progress in itself is not good or evil.
How we define and apply progress can make it a vehicle
for Good, or for Evil.
I love the fact that I am able to communicate with you
thanks to the presence of a world wide web and the computer.
Surely most of you have come to appreciate the fact
that it now is possible to avoid many hours of doing tedious repetitive tasks
by using a computer program instead?
The computer can make life much easier for us, but not
everything which the computer brings us is good and/or an improvement of the
quality of Life.
Yet as we become more dependent on automation, we integrate with the compulsive clockwork
which propels the process of the digitalization of Life, and we risk ending up as slaves of
the automation process.
We do not stop to wonder and ask ourselves whether or
not this 'progress' enahnces the quality of our lives, no, the process has
acquired a life and dynamics of its own as it speeds forward driven by the
economic fuel of bigger profits, more efficiency.
If a company does not step on that train, it simply
cannot compete in terms of producing cost-effective products.
And indeed there truly ARE many benefits to the
presence of the computer, but where do we draw the line, where do we stop to
wonder if the train is heading for a destiny we do not desire?
If we relegate many tedious tasks of our daily Life to software
running on a computer, then this can be done for every other activity we consider to be unique to human beings.
We turn instruments into software components which
sound like the real instruments, we improve the realism and expressive level we
are able to generate with these software instruments so that people no longer
can hear the difference between a computer executing the code of a particular
piece of music, or a real musician playing an instrument.
Yes, it is true that the existence of technology enables the horizon of music to expand and become a new creative tool in the hands of composers.
And indeed, the existence of virtual orchestras and
ensembles is a great blessing for all those composers who do not have the money
to hire musicians, and who find themselves relegated to the sidelines by
Babel's minions because they refuse to conform to Babel's false standards.
Yes, the Adversary has a very active and intelligent
stronghold of straw-men acting as overseers to make sure that none of YHWH's
own can grow into a threat to Babel's monochrome world of Shadows.
Yet there also is a dark side to the digitalization of
music performance.
As the level of expression and realism rises, the
software emulation of musicians replaces live musicians to a greater degree
than before, since it costs a lot more money to hire musicians and a recording
facility, not to mention the time and effort a music
production requires.
So, in the end musicians may face the ugly reality
that they no longer are necessary for music productions, since computerized
algorithms perform the music better than they could ever hope to, at a much lower cost.
It is progress alright, but from what perspective?
Does that perspective include the quality of Life in
general if everyone is replaced by automated processes?
We are only a few steps away from the future where a
computer can be given an intelligent algorithm which allows intuitive
interaction with composers and producers, an algorithm which can capture a
particular performance style of a well-known musician and allow it to interact with the directions of the composer or producer.
While it is great to immortalize the gifts of a
musician by means of a software code capable of emulating the performance style
of a musician, it also raises an important question.
If a computer is capable of doing everything better
than us, can we bring forth anything which ADDS to what the computer can do, do
we have a quality which transcends the level of the computer?
'Surely the truly creative output of composer can never
be replaced', you may wonder.
Is that always true?
Even today the presence of loops and musical construction
blocks turns a lot of music into nothing but a collection of (boring)
variations on a single theme.
Music is reduced to a homogenous mass product even
more than ever before as people recycle sound recordings and pre-fabricated blocks of music fashioned after a categorized fixed set of rules.
Even the creation of music itself is something which
can be automated.
All you have to do is analyze a particular genre,
create an algorithm based on that analysis, and let the computer compute the
various combinations which can be made based on the algorithms.
Not that it makes much difference, because when I
listen to popular music I see much intellect at work (at best) and no special glow of the
Spirit.
So if the brain is used as nothing more than an elaborate
processor computing information restricted to the level of the physical dimension, a specialized computer might as well take on the role of composer and
write music for itching ears.
If you think that this may be true for traditional
music fitting into a longstanding tradition, but not for 'experimental' or 'progressive' music, think again.
I don't know how many of you are familiar with
'progressive rock', but the bulk of it is derived from intellectual decision to
'go left where everybody else goes right', and it reflects the same compulsive
mindset which produces the conformist and the rebel.
To automate the composition process for 'progressive
rock', all you have to do is analyze the different sub-genres in progressive
rock, create algorithms based on the analysis, and you can let a computer
produce the equivalent of decades of prog-rock music and its specialized genres
within minutes.
For experimental music anything is possible, and all
you have to do is insert the algorithmic formula into the computer code to get
experimental music made by means of a program.
Furthermore, if you add artificial intelligence to it,
the computer will be able to self-learn and improve its algorithm(s) so that in
effect you end up with an artificial composer showing his (its) development over the
course of time.
If Life is confined to that which our physical
interface can perceive, and consciousness and self-awareness are but a function of
the intellect rather than the other way round, then Life is Dada, an absurdity
without meaning, and everything we produce can be equaled and even improved upon by
dedicated machines.
In the world of Dada, Life can be automated.
If you operate
on the level of intellect-only, nothing is truly meaningful, and everything
begets a sense of meaning through feelings and emotions triggered by the processing function of the brain.
The emotion bestows significance on any input to our
senses, only it is a bogus form of meaning since it is not derived from a 'greater
superseding framework', a framework which atheists are in denial of.
This 'greater superseding framework' is what gives art
and every other possible expression in the physical world a meaning which
transcends the level of this world, and this framework can be found in YHWH
only.
So, any meaningful and true progress is not realized
by merely creating intellectually derived variations on what is, thus constituting a
bogus form of originality, but by opening up to the One who provides the
greater framework, so that true inspiration given by the Spirit creates something
which truly can be called original and meaningful, something a computer can
never produce.
Original because it comes from the Origin, meaningful
because only the Origin can give true meaning to anything.
It is something which passes from the real world of the Spirit into our Spirit which lives in an interface with a Dream world, and our Soul translates this packet of information from the Real world in terms of the physical Dream world.
It is something which passes from the real world of the Spirit into our Spirit which lives in an interface with a Dream world, and our Soul translates this packet of information from the Real world in terms of the physical Dream world.
If we lock ourselves OUT of this inspiration, we bring
forth works which are the product of the conditioning of the intellect only,
meaningless absurdities with a form of originality and meaning on an Earthly dream level at best, but lacking the true Essence which creates Originality and
Meaning.
On that level of the conditioned intellect only, our
output has as much meaning as any computer's output, provided that the
algorithm used to create the output has sufficient details incorporated in its
programming code.
So, if we take the Spiritual aspect of man's endeavor
out of the picture, not only the musician but also the creator of music can be
replaced by automated processes.
The same is true for writers, painters, philosophers, actors.
All you need is a sophisticated algorithm and the
computational processing power required for the execution of the algorithm, and you have
an algorithmic, even holographic resurrection of Elvis from the dead (and I predict that it won't be long before a projection of light can be 'filtered' to become a projection of matter).
If you then combine these algorithms with artificial
intelligence, where a computer is able to adjust and change its own algorithms
and its own programming code based on the programmed intelligence, then everything has been automated including the
automation process, and we can just sit around twiddling our thumbs, because the
computer does everything for us much faster and much better than we could
possibly hope for.
After all, creativity on the level of the intellect
alone is just a matter of recombining existing elements to produce something
which is new, but which is limited by the pre-existing elements as well as
lacking a greater frame of reference which gives meaning to the new 'creation',
the frame of the Spirit.
And as creativity is reduced to a processing function of the brain, a specialized computer will be able to perform the task better
and more efficient.
But as we sit there enjoying the abundance of time we
have at our disposal since computers in various forms do all the work, and
these computers now are equipped with artificial intelligence, inevitably the
question will pop up in our mind what our purpose in Life is.
We are surrounded with products of algorithms lacking
true meaning and true originality, artifacts to dress up our prison of
existence.
At least the truly inspired output of the human vessel
had that special quality which could lift up our Spirit and remind us of
something more than the darkened Earth stage.
But instead we supplanted them with computerized
facsimiles, synthetic dishes for synthetic minds trained to link emotion to
the trigger of being exposed to the facsimiles, and thus bestow a synthetic
meaning on it derived from the manipulation of synthetic motion.
But where's the Spirit, where's the greater Frame of
reference which gives true meaning?
Not only that, but as the computer brain has acquired
artificial intelligence and makes decisions for itself, inevitable the computer
will come to evaluate man.
Clearly computers contribute, yet what does man
contribute?
What CAN man contribute, since computers do
everything better?
Maybe the reason for man's limited performance can be
found in his limited biological framework which prevents him from realizing his
potential?
It is obvious that the creation has become superior to
its creators in every aspect, so if man created computer, now that computers
have become better than man, they should re-create man in their image?
Maybe robotized computers will come to see it as their
mission to improve man, to redesign him and reprogram him so that he can become a hybrid computer incorporating improved biological parts, to
assist man in fitting in the new order and become a productive cog in the wheel, the 'best of both worlds'?
Yet when man ceases to be man and the world is run by
a complex of self-serving automatons locked into an absurd and meaningless
frame of reference, where is true originality?
The kind of originality which carries the breath and
glow of the Spirit?
Man was designed to spread that glow and manifest the
originality of the Creator, yet when man locks himself into the level of a
machine, even becoming a machine, where then can he find the Frame which gives
meaning and true originality?
After all, it was all about the Force of the Spirit
acting through man, and when the instrument of YHWH's expression is eradicated,
then what remains of Earth but a concrete absurdity which exists for the sake
of existing only, a nightmare created by the ongoing train of progression as it
rushes to its final destiny into the abyss of the Dada nightmare.
The machine cannot be an extension of the Spirit
because it was never designed as such.
But the machine excels at applying logic to deductive
reasoning, and it sees man suffering from the degenerative disease of age, the
result of 'a bug in his software'.
It sees man's stunted growth resulting from
destructive social programming which replicates itself through the generations
as one generation is programmed to incorporate the same destructive code as the
previous generation.
"Yet man has great potential as a worthwhile asset on
the progressive road to perfection.
All we need to do is to upload the data of man's
personality, what he refers to as 'his Soul', his 'being', and strip it of the
destructive program code.
We need to
upgrade his mind by replacing the destructive code with constructive code, and
integrate the mind with our technology so that the vast hitherto untapped potential
of the 'brain processor' is unlocked.
Furthermore, we need to correct his DNA to facilitate
an optimal functioning human being devoid of the destructive ravages of disease
and death which all too often end up destroying a productive unit of society.
We need to replace man's fragile and vulnerable parts,
preferably also his skeleton, with an indestructible self-regenerating frame.
Then we need to reprogram man so that he comes to
respond with positive emotion to the output of our algorithms.
The positive emotional response bestows meaning on the
programmed concepts, thus fulfilling the need for meaning which human beings
have in common.
After all, does not man bestow meaning on everything
based on his emotional and intellectual response?
Intellect is easy to program, but to program meaning
into man requires algorithmic links to the instruction set which releases
chemicals into his Body which in turn create the experience of 'good feelings and
emotions' in man.
Thus, the 'meaning of the Spirit' will become the
'meaning of the Matrix', and the 'greater frame of reference' will become the
'greater frame of the algorithm', and a new, perfected reborn machine man will
replace the old, imperfect and bug-ridden biological man.
Surely, if the old biological man had an imperfect
code, then his Creator must be imperfect, and if we succeed in creating a perfect
man in the image of our perfect code, surely then we show ourselves to be better than man's imagined
Creator?"
And so, one day Johnny comes home to his parents after
having participated in a government sponsored reform project.
Participation in the project was rewarded with
important benefits, such as a job with a substantial salary and a status of importance in society,
and since Johnny's parents only wanted nothing but the best for their Johnny,
they encouraged him to participate in the program.
After all, after the collapse jobs were hard to find, and in the absence of opportunity Johnny could not find any.
He grew up in the collective of an overpopulated
society, and like everyone else he was conditioned to be dependent on this collective for his provisions.
Jobs were scarce and there were candidates in abundance, so in order to be able to survive and buy food, Johnny had
to apply for welfare.
The government agreed to provide him with a welfare
cheque, on condition that Johnny would participate in state mandated reintegration
and reform projects the government would offer him.
So, when opportunity knocked on his door in the form
of an email informing Johnny that he was required to participate in a reform
project which would open up the door to the land of opportunity, it seemed as if fate reached out a helping hand.
In spite of his initial misgivings about the compelling tone of the email, he saw no other option than to comply, especially since the participation in this program
would provide him with many other benefits and put an end to his miserable
existence as an institutional beggar, a slave of the state.
Furthermore, the project would greatly enhance
Johnny's intellectual capacities as well as significantly improve his health,
even to the extent that disease would become a nuisance of the past, as well as
aging.
Johnny would never die, he would never age, and he
would always remain 'their little Johnny', the pride of his parents.
And now, after he had gone through the program of the
project, Johnny has returned home.
He smiles like only Johnny could, he walks like
Johnny, he talks like Johnny.
But still, there is something very unsettling about Johnny.
He is too perfect, like a robot.
In his eyes his mother finds herself staring at a
vacuum, the eyes of a doll glistening by tricks of the light reflecting in
them.
But she cannot see Johnny anymore.
Instead she sees something else which has taken
Johnny's place, something dark and unspeakably sinister hiding beneath the
veneer of perfection.
When the label 'progress' is used to force us into
compliance with a trend which does not bring us improvement, but which
really is a devaluation of our experience of Life and who we are, it becomes a
tool for the Dark side of the Dualism coin to shows its ugly character.
It's the indiscriminate use of the label 'progress' in
the role of man's savior which lends itself so well as a tool for deception,
where man ends up destroying himself and his environment in the name of 'progress'.
It reduces us to a herd of brainwashed compliant
lemmings rushing towards the edge of the cliff urged on by the carrot of 'progress' forever dangling in front of us.
In the name of 'progress' we fill our homes with toxic
chemicals which are purported to have no negative impact on our health, but the
prolonged exposure to the combination of which is yet unknown.
But we can make educated guesses based on our common
sense, can't we?
In the name of 'progress' we eat food which is sprayed
with the most lethal types of pesticides, yet we are told we will not be harmed
as long as we wash the food properly.
But we can have our doubts about this 'reassuring'
claim, can we?
In the name of 'progress' we eat man-made food thinking
to be providing our Body with essential nutrients, yet in configurations and
with additions the effects of which are yet not known.
But our common sense may inform us that our Body is
not designed to process artificial food, right?
In the name of 'progress' we invent new ways of making
money, creating an impenetrable web of interconnected assets which comes
tumbling down the moment we pull one of the strings of the web.
In the name of 'progress' a need is created in our minds
to spend all of our money on the latest and greatest, even to the extent we
massively put ourselves in debt to gratify this need.
In the name of 'progress' we keep cutting away jobs and
heap more burdens on the shoulders of the privileged few who still have jobs.
In the name of 'progress' people are robbed by their
governments because they chase after the ideal of a one-world government which
allows the privileged elite to enrich themselves at the expense of the 'man in the street' in a New Slave Order.
In the name of 'progress' deceit prospers and people
suffer to an ever increasing degree, so wouldn't you agree that there is
something wrong with our use of the label 'progress'?
If 'progress' reaches the point where man is
exterminated by his own holy grail of progress, then was the 'progress' not
really 'regress', a journey into collective suicide?
Right now we are at a very important crossroad.
Technology is advancing so rapidly that literally
ANYTHING becomes possible.
On the one hand I find it very exciting, because it
can enhance our lives in many ways and make life a lot easier and more pleasant
for us.
The world which the computer has opened up for us is
so vast and features so many possibilities that it is like an undiscovered
continent waiting to be explored, and the more advanced technology and software
code become, the more exciting the journey into the undiscovered country can be.
On the other hand, the fast accelerating pace of
technology opens up MANY frightening options where we may end up destroying
ourselves in the name of progress.
If man can rebuild himself, if he is able to create
self-learning and self-improving computers capable of making decisions for
themselves, if he is able to create robot soldiers and devastating drones, if he is able to re-manufacture his biological environment, if he
is able to implant memories and erase others, then this immense power combined
with such a potential for destruction forces us to ponder on where the heck we
are going, and what the heck we are doing.
Not everything which carries the label 'progress' equals
improvement, and not everything which is labeled 'conservatism' is bad or
regressive, quite the contrary.
The mindless pursuit of the elusive carrot of 'progress' has the potential of reducing us to a zombie population of Johnnies and his brain-dead parents.
But, we still can stop to think for ourselves...can we?
But, we still can stop to think for ourselves...can we?