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Originally posted by JakiusFogg
reply to post by hippomchippo
And it is that aspect that I fin most sad about this whole situation that we find ourselves in.
Katrina as the example that you put forward. OK big disaster, terrible etc etc, but the people did not have the self reliance to help themselves. And it's not just the USA. Look at Pakistan right now! 12 MILLION people displaced. But I would bet that not all are just waiting around for US food packages, helicopters and international aid to come in and save the day. Regardless of what the MSM show you. because it is exactly that, which they want you to believe. That this is the normal reaction when faced with adversity. Sit and wait for help. you cannot help yourself. You NEED the state to do it for you.
OK so the belief is that everything we have in this world is now digital. and should that information be lost, along with the financial data etc then it would be katrina like.
i don't know. I don't think I subscribe to that level of hype. I cannot see hows we have become se reliant in mind body and soul in less than 28 years. (less than my entire life span) that should these things go offline. that the result would be utter choas.
Well maybe there would be bouts of suicide amongst the warcraft guys, after having their accounts lost!, but I would hope and wish to see that at this point people, free if only for a moment realise that outside this electric dream we have created. there is an entire world, that we can claim as our own.
For those that are comfy in this scenario. Well good luck to you.
I for one, when it happens in all it's natural mundane normality will be looking for the exit.
Originally posted by JakiusFogg
reply to post by letthereaderunderstand
And all part of the grand scheme of things.
So do we just go along for the ride? or just say bugger this and move on?
Originally posted by JakiusFogg
reply to post by letthereaderunderstand
Come on chum, your first post said the moon is on fire let the mother fecker burn!
So what does that and the graphic imply.
I too was around in the last one, and I too am still here (the clue is in my Avatar) But this IS my point.
I am not saying that the world will blow up "knowing Style" as you suggest, but that is what the MSM wish us to perceive.
What I am saying, and NASA also, is that the world is more vulnerable now than ever before because our system are reliant on technology that is sensitive to this type of scenario, yes ATM have been here since the 60's and computers since the 70's, But the prolific use of integrated computer networks for the transfers, storage and processing of every function of our society. Is like never before. And certainly not like in 1984.
Otherwise why bring in 25 countries to discuss what to do about "the problem"
Problem Reaction Solution.
My point is that when this does happen. as boring as it will be. The hands of TPTB will slip from the techno reigns of control, and will need (for a short period) to revert to older forms of control
It is AT THIS MOMENT, that WE as a people, (for those that want to) to leave the system.
I am not standing here putting myself up as any prohet of doom.
I am thinking more like a cimema usher, with a torch saying, REAL WORLD THIS WAY!!
Look at it this way. if there is one place that would struggle more than the USA it would be S. Korea. Everything there is online
[edit on 7/8/2010 by JakiusFogg]
The program for this evening
is not new. You have seen
This entertainment through and through.
You've seen your birth, your
life and death; you might recall
all of the rest — (did you
have a good world when you
died?) — enough to base
a movie on?
The point that we are heading for a solar maximum, and that the "western" empire has never been so vulnerable. (as it states in the article)