Dear Diary

Dear Diary,

   Well, I was checking out InfoWars this morning, and there was this new video on there, a video, or rather a message, that if spoken a decade or two ago, would have seemed like complete craziness, or like somebody experiencing an acid-trip, but today, it's dead on the money!

   For at least the past decade or two, many of the things in the video are things I've been saying and noticing.  Things like the average person being desensitized and sapped of the energy/passion to keep strong in the face of overwhelming outrageous claims.  I often compare the modern-day to when I was growing up many moons ago, and back then, if a horrible massacre happened, or somebody was murdered, or something just horrific happened, EVERYBODY, and I mean *everybody* stopped what they were doing, were dazed, were sidelined briefly, in shock and awe, and they actually took a moment of compassionate/sympathetic silence to mourn for the victims... whereas now and days, the typical view seems to be, "oh, it's just another shooting... flip the page of change the channel", "oh, it's just another crashed plane with several hundred dead... flip the page or change the channel".

(Ever since 9/11, seems that when truly horrific and disgusting things happen now, most people will spend a few minutes in remorse, then endless amounts of time afterwards pointing fingers in every which direction finding people to blame, even people that had nothing to do with it and no connections.  Like the recent Pulse night-club shooting... the shooter pledged allegiance to ISIS to 911, yet before the bodies were even cold, there were already accusations that the Religious Right were to blame, and even others in denial trying to claim the entire thing was a hoax... rather than accept that it's awful, mourn for those that were slain, and look at the facts of the matter!)

9/11 Memorial and Remembrance.

   There was even a part where it mention that the average person suffers something like Stockholm syndrome, where they feel trapped, where they looking around and thinking, "how is everybody falling for all of this" and feeling like they're all alone.  I'm often scouring through the internet trying to find at least some semblance of an open-platform with open-minded people that are like minded that are capable of pointing out and recognizing the nonsense, pointing out and speaking about the craziness... but there's hardly anything resembling that.  It's either blend in and try to play nice with the conformed sheep, or dive in with the extremists on the other side that tend to believe that free-access to porn at any age falls under "freedom of speech".  *facepalm*

   Further how it talked about locking up technology and keeping the elite on top, that I've also noticed for at least a decade or two.  I grew up around technology, working in technology, helping to develop and repair technology, configure and setup technology... I've done a lot with technology along with system securities, Q/A, troubleshooting, etc.  Yet, it's been blowing my mind how we can become so advanced with home-computing that we can have VR in the home (finally after it was another tech that was squashed and locked away in the early to mid 90s) some 20 years later after it was originally introduced, on a private level, to dive into and explore limitless virtual-worlds, which sure, mainstream is expensive, but with searching around one can jury-rig an affordable VR headset and controls.

   We've reached the level where we can do all that.  Yet, for over a hundred years (140+ to be precise), the mainstream automobile has had a couple tiny upgrades, but still seems like it's purposely held to a dumbed-down standard to be a gasoline burner to keep people dependent on high gasoline-prices.  Sure, there's the hybrid and the electric-car, but they didn't come about until almost a century after the first automobile prototype, and they're in essence actually a different prototype basis at the base-level.

   On a side-note another thing about technology that bugs the snot out of me, is how dependent people are made to be on "throw away technology"; it's what's led to so many different connector-types, architectures, interfaces, etc to come along.  Similar to the automobile, rather than tweak up and overhaul the design, just deprecate and toss it, and replace it with a completely new standard.  (Aren't you tired of turning around after getting the "latest" *standard* like gold-plated Monster S-Video cables, to find out there's already something better?  VGA? DVI?  HDMI? Micro-HDMI?)


   Along the way several redesigns of not just the automobile, but other common goods came along, to just have the government either shut them down outright, or buy them out just to lock the patent away forever... like the light-bulb that never burns out.

   I mean, in a very short window of time (in comparison to how long this country has been established, or even the history of human growth over the centuries before that), depending on how one looks at it -- roughly 40 years give or take for the home PC, or perhaps even 80 years if a person wants to go back to the original announcement of the ENIAC "computer" (or perhaps more "calculator") -- but in that span of time, we as a species managed to go from vacuum-tubes, punch-cards, data cassettes, floppy disks, monochrome displays, text-based gaming, all the way up to realistic-looking graphical virtual-reality 3D immersive worlds -- the ability to go anywhere on the planet or in space from the comfort of your own living room -- yet, there was still no mind-blowing revelations or reconstructions of the automobile?  A prototype that was originally designed by Karl Benz in 1885, even though the form-factor and body-style has obviously changed over the years and by the manufacturer, the original concept from 140 years ago, aside from a tweak here or there (like the removal of the carburetor to replace with fuel-injection), was so dead on the money, that nothing over the past 140 years could possibly compete with the intial core-design!?


   Anywho, I've rambled quite a bit here; linking the awesome video below.  Not saying anybody necessarily has to agree, but if they do, more power to them... if they don't, well, no problem and that's cool, to each their own, I still respect everybody's freedom to come to their own unique decisions and perceptions.. :)