SIR GUESTLING THORN

 Day 281

This might be my last post for a while? I am fed up with all I read, hear and with my own and others reaction to it! 

So one last rant to finish with for now.

I saw a video online by Happen.net entitled The New Normal. It espoused many different issues regarding Artificial Technology, the Covid vaccine amongst many others. How tech companies are dominating, China is the world leader in robotics and AI.  Lots of Doctors and scientists and other learned people talking about the future and how we will be affected both good and bad. For example one man talked about how intelligent transport will take over and we humans will not be allowed to drive any more because they will be safer, quicker and more efficient. Another one espoused how the Covid vaccine is delivering in a different way, to the immune system, than those from the past? Jobs will disappear as Robotic and AI take over the workplace? We will live in a Smart world (as if we don’t already?). All sorts of technology could be used for us and within us! There is a whole movement about Reset, a movement set to reboot the world and change the fundamental way we live now. We are apparently in the fourth industrial revolution? Very very wealthy people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk are bidding to control more and more alongside other such wealthy billionaires. There is of course the fear and obvious concern this vaccine will have side effects for some, of course it will, all vaccines do! Is the effect large or small? Is there enough current data to base any number on? Make your own mind up, just know that you will be pushed and pulled one way or the other, until there is irrefutable proof, we just don’t know!

Well so what? Big deal! Personally I don’t give a shit! Let them inject Nanobots into me, what will they do and really who is going to go to that expense? My data is out there anyway and if you seriously want to track me I have a device that you can already do that with despite what ever “settings” I chose to stop it! If we are going to have automated transport, great, as long as it gets me where I want to go, fine, I don’t enjoy driving anyway and there are to many unsafe bastards on the road! For years humans have wanted to find a way of not having to do certain jobs, so if they can be done by robots, quicker, more efficiently and with less cost, fine. If there are those out there who believe we should reset the globe, great, I’ve been supporting that for years! 

Now all of that was written with a tiny bit of my tongue firmly in my cheek. Of course there are consequences that will have a massive effect on humanity. However to those who think that there is a cabal of wealthy men and women, governments and others who they believe want to control us, where have you been it has been happening for hundreds of years anyway, what good has it done “them”? And yet I still ask this question, if it is true, why? Why would you want to control billions of people anyway, what possible advantage would it give you when you are wealthier than you could spend in twenty lifetimes, this is not a James Bond film! I personally have nothing to fear, I can only control my infinitesimal part of the world. Humanity has always advanced, often not in a good way but advanced it has. We must resist the overwhelming temptation to believe that any and all progress is detrimental to our freedom, health, prospects and families. We simply don’t know, nobody really does, whether they are an supposed expert or not! There is always some truth in most stories but in todays world they hinge on which bias and agenda those who publish them have and our bias and agenda then pushes us towards what we want to believe. Look at what is happening all over the world and particularly in America right now. Take it all with a large grain of salt. Do what you think best? Don’t be unduly influenced by those that want you to be afraid. We live in world changing at a rate never seen before, no wonder we struggle to make sense of it. There is far too much information and much more misinformation . It is almost impossible for ordinary people to know what is good and bad. One day the expert says one thing and the next another contradicts it, we bounce around and the info gets whispered and passed around until nobody knows the real truth! Unless you’ve read every report or statistic, listened or read every full speech, how do we know the context. I don’t say they do not raise legitimate concerns but it is very easy to edit a presentation to give a particular angle. Do you believe those fanatical Trump supporters really research their beliefs or are that just predisposed to want his brand in the first place? Do they truly believe the election was rigged or are they just blindly following because they don’t like the result and because Trump tells them it was? Who is really stirring up these idiots? 

Frankly it is all vastly overrated and unimportant. I’m coming to the final chapter of my time and in many ways I am glad!

We are all susceptible to those who promote our pre-conceived beliefs, it’s human nature! What if the vaccines are the answer? What if technology, AI, Robots, automated transport do make our lives better? What if “resetting” is what we need? What if we can address climate change and the many problems that beset our world? What if wealthy billionaires are helping to make things better? What if, what if, what if!

Optimism is the faith to hope things will be better. We just have to have that faith?

Thank you to all two of you that have stuck with this blog but after 281 days I am going to sign off for now.

Goodbye and stay well.