Author: csguy

As a proud computer scientist and software engineer I have frequently pondered the degree to which I did or did not play a role in the decline of our world due to the evolution of social media.  For me, the uncertainty is now resolved; I didn’t help bring it about.

Computer automation started simply as that, automation.  Scientists used computers to solve complex math problems which otherwise were error prone and took days, weeks, and even longer, to solve.  

By the time I entered the industry, the focus (and growth)  had shifted to business automation.  Frictionless movement of money created massive amounts of opportunity.  

Next, the evolution of data bases gave us business intelligence.  By monitoring the buying patterns of customers and flow of inventory retailers revolutionized product placement to  ensure maximum exposure of specific products to specific customer segments.  Precision targeting of products and services gave huge macro boosts in revenue.  In less than a decade retailers who were unable to place products with computer precision fell into the trash heap.

Throughout my career I worked in what is called product development, within that even more specifically in the domain of “low level software”.  This means my days were spent going back and forth between hardware and software to ensure the two played well together.  While the fundamentals of database technologies were known to me, I was always flabbergasted at the amount of data being collected by companies and the capabilities of software applications exploiting the data.  

Up to this point in time it felt like everyones goals were aligned.  Everyone wanted to serve the customer and maximize profit.  It was a noble profession and to be clear mostly still is today. 

Now comes the complicated parts; the confluence of 2 technologies which which when used together has profoundly changed world for the worse.  

The 1st is Artificial Intelligence (AI); insanely capable databases paired with software applications  that seek out data anomalies and trends in the blink of any eye.  There simply are no words to describe the massive amounts of data in modern databases.  The types of data are equally awesome.  For just one example; everyone with a phone broadcasts their gps location every moment of every day giving companies and governments precise information about where you are at any point in time.  Are you walking, running, driving, flying? Are you going up steps? Stepping into a car? Riding a bike?  At the mall? Which store? Which part of the store?  Shoes?  Men’s or women’s department? High end store?  Discount store?  Are you at church?  All this data about you is being collected about you and everyone else every second of the day.  

What is done with the data is the 2nd bit of technology.  Under the guise of helping customers; companies such as google and Facebook create and maintain detailed profiles of everyones personality.  Bullshit you say?  No, it’s true.  Armed with a detailed profile of who you are, google will not only deliver search results tuned to who you are, but also ….. wait for it ….. tuned to who they think you should be., what you should believe.  What prior generations called persuasion has been weaponized by these information giants and is being used as targeted propaganda.  These companies have learned they can not only influence you to buy the overpriced tennis-shoes but they can also modify your behaviorism other parts of your life; starting with and most importantly politics.  By bombarding you with propaganda aimed at your weaknesses and current beliefs they can nudge you one way or the other; including you vote.  It takes time, but people become numb and unaware of the nuanced nudges.  But time and social affiliation win out over time.  Such changes also require an ever diminishing sense of ethics, values and morals.  By bombarding us with false narratives about how everyone does it or everyone believes we start to adopt the narrative for ourselves to avoid being left behind.  

The genie is out of the bottle.  

People ARE the product.

Truth is being invented .  

These companies are NOT noble.   People willing to work there are NOT noble people.

2+2=5

• State doesn’t spend billions on rail systems to nowhere
• Electric grid can be trusted to stay on
• public spaces maintained, including streets & forests
• No rationing of tap water
• People don’t care about the color your skin
• Separate men’s & women’s bathrooms
• Illegal 3rd term abortion 
• No sanctuary cities 
• Law & order maintained
• Public employees keep public safe
• Low taxes
• Great medical care available 
• Not insanely cold, muggy or hot
• Nearby access to water fun
• Regulations encourage new businesses 
• No common core
• ID not required to buy ammunition 
• No restrictions on when to mow lawn or BBQ
• Churches are open

Our federal system of government is based on the premise that only a handful of laws and responsibilities belong to the Federal government and that ALL other laws (the vast bulk of them) are the responsibility of the individual states.  Its called Federalism and it’s goal is to minimize the size and influence of the Federal government.  Since our founding, more and more responsibility has been shifted to the Federal level contrary to the intent of our founders.  Today, it is impossible to distinguish Democrat from Republican on their willingness to support bigger government.  If you ever doubt the founder’s intent please read the Federalist Papers; the founders were passionately aligned on this point at the exclusion of many other possible scenarios.

The push towards “one size fits all” from both political parties and the public’s willingness to play along seems to ignore the geographic vastness of our country which played into the decision to go with Federalism as our foundational structure.  Common sense seems to suggest that in this day and age we should be able to have the same laws in Nevada as we have in Arizona for example.  After all travel is fast and easy.  Why can’t we be like country “xyz” is the other popular cry today.  

There are two reasons why we can’t or shouldn’t try to be like country “xyz”.  The population of most COUNTRIES is less than the CITY of New York for example.          

The climax of HG Wells’ dystopian “1984” novel is perhaps one of the least understood in contemporary literature.  

Winston (the principal in the story and member of the proletariat) was tortured for his thought crimes against the State.  He was tortured until he agreed 2+2=5.   This was the State’s way of using fear (of being tortured) to force Winston’s compliance to the State.   After prolonged resistance Winston finally agreed he would say whatever the state wanted to end the suffering.  Winston believed by complying, the torturing would finally stop.  But the torturing continued.  Winston objected; “what do you want me to say?”.  And this is the point of the story…. it was not good enough to agree with the State and for Winston to bend to the will of the State …. 

The torturing persisted until Winston TRULY BELIEVED 2+2=5; not just “saying” it to stop the torturing!  In the end,  Winston  became one of the mindless well behaved drones of society.  

I share this because it’s happening to us today.  Many people are living in fear of dying from C19.  The fear of death is being used to force COMPLIANCE to the will of the State.  But even as the virus recedes, behavior is still being steered & controlled.  Scores of senseless rules remain that are not supported by common sense or science.  

See, compliance to the will of the State is NOT GOOD ENOUGH!  Mask shaming and pointless rules will persist until you TRULY BELIEVE death is the alternative.  

What comes next is predictable … once  you become a brainwashed believer you will BEG for an opportunity to stand hours in line for a C19  vaccine.

The overnight “wokeness” regarding “systemic racism” follows a related pattern.  We dare not ask questions or ask for debate on the subject.  You will labeled as a bigot and racist.  Free speech stifled.  So you back into the shadows and keep your mouth shut to avoid conflict.  Over time you hear more and more people pushing the BLM agenda.  Systemic racism is even preached from the pulpit on Sunday.  Then it happens, you begin to doubt yourself.  Do you succumb, climb back into the shadows, or continue to ask questions? 

Don’t be like Winston 

Imagine a group of strangers get together to paint a house without supervision or a plan.  They are not all professional painters and the only thing they have in common is a deep desire to see the house painted.  They show up with their paint and start painting.  As individuals they simply choose where to paint.  If they see their color is off tint they go get the proper paint because of course they want the house to look good.  Someone leaves a spot unpainted but someone else sees the void and applies the needed coverage.  Sometimes the same spot gets painted more than once, not a big deal.  Someone is using a paint sprayer; those who can afford it follow suit; the others continue with brushes or rollers.   Painters needing more paint are sometimes replenished by other painters.  Painters skip rooms they don’t understand, leaving it to painters who do.  Often times the rookie painters pick up tips from the professionals just by watching and listening.  After a bit the rookies are even using the language of the pros even though they don’t fully understand.  Sometimes a room needs more than paint so the room is destroyed and rebuilt before getting painted.  When painters start to notice one of the rooms is turning out REALLY well several of them move to work there and share in the satisfying result.  Eventually the house is painted despite a lack of planning or supervision.  

You do not need a conspiracy to convert America to Marxism.  All you need is people with a shared vision of the endpoint.  The MSM, oligarchs,  politicians, unions, schools, gangs, corporations, BLM, Antifa, special interest groups, and individuals share a common end goal AND individually they know at least some of the actions needed to get it done; a conspiracy is not required.

The Left labels us conspiracy theorists to shut us down, intimidate, make us look and feel like kooks, and yes, “cancel” us.  The Left can call cultural Marxism a conspiracy theory as much as they like …. it has no bearing on the truth which is that the push for cultural Marxism is real and being rolled out across the globe at breakneck speed; conspiracy or not.

Don’t be cancelled by the l Left

They can ….

• yell at me
• ignore me
• marginalize me
• demonize me
• belittle my religion
• keep me out of my church
• take a knee for the national anthem 
• dismiss the importance of family values
• call me privileged 
• call me a bigot
• call me sexist
• treat me as stupid 
• lie to me
• hate on me
• hate on my country 
• burn my flag
• defend endless wars
• destroy political signs from my yard
• destroy our nations statues 
• call me anti science
• criticize my choices
• stifle my free speech
• support 3rd term abortions
• defund the police
• defund the boarder patrol 
• loot
• riot
• burn buildings 
• occupy cities
• raise my taxes
• tear down the boarders
• give my taxes to illegal aliens
• try to pit me against other citizens 
• try to drown me in regulations
• command  me to stay in my home
• tell me I have too much money 
• assault my senses with perversion

All these things define them ….

BUT NOTHING WILL NOT STOP ME FROM VOTING FOR THE CANDIDATE OF MY CHOICE

When you agree members of the FBI & CIA colluded with foreign agents and members of the Democratic Party to overthrow the President of the United States by:

– fabricating evidence of wrongdoing

-withholding evidence from congress

– hiring foreign agents and planting them into the President’s campaign

– illegally unmasking the names of US citizens from classified documents

– lying to the federal courts by presenting false claims

– entrapping & arresting members of the President’s staff

– leaking classified information

– launching a Special Counsel investigation using false claims

– staffing investigative teams with political activists

– lying to Congress & the Senate

– promoting lies via online social media & television 

Then, and only then, will I read your political commentary.  

There are clearly a lot of emotions and interpretations swimming in your head right now.  Your feelings are real, but you must eventually “let them go”, if not they will block you from personal action.  You have provoked some thoughts in me which I hope offer you possibilities.

Be mindful of having “expectations” from from anyone.  We cannot control others.  When we expect others to “be” or “act” a certain way we are destined to live in perpetual state of disappointment.  I have seen people live in disappointment their whole life and it is a very dark existence.  Instead, consider what’s  possible.  There are always possibilities.  Living in a world of possibilities opens our minds and hearts.

Since the mid 60’s, the financial reality of living in California is that massive hidden taxes and the overall cost of living make it difficult to live on a single income.  The problem stems from profligate spending of big government.  It is truly sad and has shaped who we are as a state and a nation.

There are a lot of reasons to be unhappy with Donald Trump, but be mindful of those things he can control versus those which require action from congress.  For example, Congress controls who gets money from the government, Trump’s job is to mail the checks.

Be skeptical of the “news”.  Pure (honest) news died in the 80’s.  The companies that control the media have a biased political agenda and use their power to feed us nonstop propaganda.  I include this point because you suggested America has “systemic racism”.  There is no data to defend the claim.  Systemic Racism is a meme being pushed by the media to divide our country and it saddens me to see it working.  Racism is real, there are racist people, there are bad cops,  but we are not a nation of systemic racism.  

Corruption and injustice are rampant but the true battle is between the political elites and the media vs us (the proletariat).  These elites are literally sociopaths.  Sociopaths have no moral compass and do not care about anyone or our country.  Their only interest is in growing their own power and wealth.  Once you see this it explains the behavior of politicians, elites, and the media.  

Remember our rights are God given rights, they do not come from government.  To believe this you must have Faith & Humility.  Your happiness, joy, and your purpose in life come from within you through God.  Never surrender control of your bliss to another person, job, or government.

1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
3. “Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
8. “Keep the pressure on.”
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.”
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

Jacob applebaum