#21 ·
The Internet is basically the ultimate achievement.
Everything you could ever want to know right at your fingertips... being able to chat or connect with someone halfway across the globe in real time... It’s wild!
But here's the catch—it's turning into a straight-up addiction.
Every coin has two sides, after all...
The issue isn't actually the Internet itself; it’s our own built-in inability to stop biting onto everything that catches our eye...
We're like those monkeys who find something inside a hollow tree trunk—once they shove their hand in, they can't pull it back out because they refuse to let go of whatever they're clutching.
If this obsession were purely about the pursuit of knowledge, we'd be fine.
Man, I'd give anything to have been able to surf the web as a kid whenever I got obsessed with astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, aerospace, biology... you name it. Instead of wasting my life digging through dusty old library stacks.
Sadly, that hunger for truth (now that every scrap of info is just a tap away) hasn't won out.
Other appetites have sniffed out an opportunity and floated right to the surface.
The problem is clearly us.
Take WikiLeaks; you have to wonder how much of it is actual information and how much is just pure manipulation.
All the time, people trade a little credibility by leaking half-truths or highly selective facts—sacrificing a small win now to make a killing later—just so they can pivot and hit you with lies and insinuations exactly where they want.
Who knows what the endgame is, who the target is, or who's pulling the strings behind the curtain.
This whole story about some disgruntled clerk leaking thousands upon thousands of documents? It's as hollow as Tutankhamun's skull.
People are just easy prey, like cattle waiting to be led.
The whole thing reeks to me, just like the attacks on the World Trade Center.
When you crunch the numbers, the "victim" ends up walking away with a massive profit.
They get to control Iraqi oil, dominate the Middle East (and if they feel like it, take a swing at Iran), squeeze Russia (by planting issues in Poland), and slow down China and the European Union in their attempts to become economic superpowers—all while triggering economic crises or depressions by dumping massive amounts of cash from the American central reserves.
It's the exact same way certain tabloids used to run the show back in the day, under the thumb of guys like Ivić Pašalić, installing and toppling ministers or swaying decisions made by Franjo Harmon.
Operating from the shadows to a certain extent...
Everyone used to fear the Doctor (Her Flick).
Nowadays, anyone and everyone can be demonized or promoted overnight.
You can turn a saint into a degenerate or vice versa in a heartbeat.
The real question is simply: who is holding the reins and steering public opinion?
I get the feeling that, in that regard, the Internet is nothing but a digital El Dorado of endless possibilities.
😢
Everything you could ever want to know right at your fingertips... being able to chat or connect with someone halfway across the globe in real time... It’s wild!
But here's the catch—it's turning into a straight-up addiction.
Every coin has two sides, after all...
The issue isn't actually the Internet itself; it’s our own built-in inability to stop biting onto everything that catches our eye...
We're like those monkeys who find something inside a hollow tree trunk—once they shove their hand in, they can't pull it back out because they refuse to let go of whatever they're clutching.
If this obsession were purely about the pursuit of knowledge, we'd be fine.
Man, I'd give anything to have been able to surf the web as a kid whenever I got obsessed with astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, aerospace, biology... you name it. Instead of wasting my life digging through dusty old library stacks.
Sadly, that hunger for truth (now that every scrap of info is just a tap away) hasn't won out.
Other appetites have sniffed out an opportunity and floated right to the surface.
The problem is clearly us.
Take WikiLeaks; you have to wonder how much of it is actual information and how much is just pure manipulation.
All the time, people trade a little credibility by leaking half-truths or highly selective facts—sacrificing a small win now to make a killing later—just so they can pivot and hit you with lies and insinuations exactly where they want.
Who knows what the endgame is, who the target is, or who's pulling the strings behind the curtain.
This whole story about some disgruntled clerk leaking thousands upon thousands of documents? It's as hollow as Tutankhamun's skull.
People are just easy prey, like cattle waiting to be led.
The whole thing reeks to me, just like the attacks on the World Trade Center.
When you crunch the numbers, the "victim" ends up walking away with a massive profit.
They get to control Iraqi oil, dominate the Middle East (and if they feel like it, take a swing at Iran), squeeze Russia (by planting issues in Poland), and slow down China and the European Union in their attempts to become economic superpowers—all while triggering economic crises or depressions by dumping massive amounts of cash from the American central reserves.
It's the exact same way certain tabloids used to run the show back in the day, under the thumb of guys like Ivić Pašalić, installing and toppling ministers or swaying decisions made by Franjo Harmon.
Operating from the shadows to a certain extent...
Everyone used to fear the Doctor (Her Flick).
Nowadays, anyone and everyone can be demonized or promoted overnight.
You can turn a saint into a degenerate or vice versa in a heartbeat.
The real question is simply: who is holding the reins and steering public opinion?
I get the feeling that, in that regard, the Internet is nothing but a digital El Dorado of endless possibilities.
😢
