I am becoming more afraid every day…the scary world we live in is becoming scarier each day.
As George Orwell foretells, “The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what’s happening.”
Orwell wrote that in 1949. His words have more validity today. Just consider:
- How long a person sticks with an Internet site to give it more analytical consideration?
- How much consideration does an Internet user give to anything they read online?
- How many people readily accept what they read online without due analysis, thought and questioning?
- How many people accept what they hear the ‘talking heads’ broadcast on the nightly news without questioning the validity, veracity or soundness of what they’re hearing?
- How authentic is each story on the nightly news?
The world is becoming a scary place, scarier every day but maybe I should consider myself lucky, I won’t be here long enough to see the resulting disaster.
This may all sound like doom and gloom except that there is validity and reality behind it all. Artificial Intelligence is growing more sophisticated and more capable every day and it is learning how to transform news stories into more authentic and more believable news bits with ease. Weeks ago, caricatures of world leaders were broadcast singing silly little songs that we know they never would sing but it looked nearly believable. To the uneducated, very believable. Biden likely has never song “99 bottles of beer” in real life, at least not in his recent years. Macron has never sung “She’ll come around the mountain when she comes” in his whole life and never will.
AI is improving in leaps and bounds and those who use it as tools of manipulation, subversion and control must be singing its praises to high heaven. AI can phone you and carry on a conversation to learn how you pronounce certain words. Then phone your family and make ridiculous claims to glean money from them. Fight it all you want, but it is the reality of the new world. The new world order. the new norm!
Orwell was right in his prediction for the wrong reasons as if that differentiation means anything. The people won’t revolt because they’re too busy playing with Facebook, X, Instagram, etc. to think about what is happening or analyze what is being written.
Instead….READ what you are reading. Think about it. Consider it. Analyze it. Question it. It’s your world that is disintegrating. It’s your world that is being threatened. Not mine…I’ll be gone sooner than I would like but soon and you will inherit the world that we are allowing to happen now. I sure wish I could find a way to light your fire and get you moving to begin fighting the forces that are looking to deepen their control over your world.
