Truth

When truth becomes a subjective matter, as information wars heat up across the media spectrum, there is value in striding against the headwinds and demanding truth, no matter the cost. We’ve seen this happen, especially surrounding the transgender issue.

That it takes strident defense of truth in this realm is an embarrassment all its own. I cannot avoid the comparison to Orwell’s 1984. I’ve tried. What Orwell presented as a dystopian futuristic novel, based largely on the foundations of Marxist communism, speaks more loudly today in the world of the internet and SMART everything that watches every second of one’s life, imbues fear in every utterance and creates caution even for going into certain districts in town for fear that the GPS unit in almost every vehicle, one’s phone, one’s watch made today, might someday be used in a court of law to prove disloyalty to the regime, is palpable.

We don’t have to live this way.

The astounding fact that the United States currently has effectively 4,000 data centers at present. China, who has already implemented the social credit system, has only 365 data centers. Now, Trump wants the US Treasury to buy into the continued construction of these data centers and Blackrock demands that most retirement funds be invested in them as well. Knowing also that Artificial Intelligence (AI) (for which these data centers will be used to support) at best is a toy and at worst the destruction of humanity, one has to question the need for such an excessive amount.

This is before we even discover for sure the environmental and civilizational impact of them. Some of the originators of AI are starting to suggest a pause to consider these things. Yes, please, do what no other industry has done in a century and consider the impact some technology or ability might have on humanity. That would be an extraordinary act.

One has to read or re-read Orwell’s 1984 to really understand how well this predictive novel so closely and accurately describes the very conditions, emotions and circumstances we experience today, including the Two Minutes of Hate (two minutes of scrolling social media), the constant surveillance that is passive up to the point that it becomes active. What I find so completely instructive is how Goldstein is allowed to voice his threats and vitriol during the Two Minutes of Hate, that extol freedom and capitalism and other such radical ideas to inflame the party faithful. If Donald Trump, or any Republican president doesn’t fit that role, I don’t know what does. People forget that Reagan and Bush were treated almost identically, but few endured it.

It is, as if 1984 is an instruction manual. While I am not the first, or even the most original, person to make the suggestion and comparisons, something so common now as to be referred to as “Orwellian” I bring it up now and reinforce the understanding, because we are poised on the very precipice of suffering the consequences of allowing the state to build this infrastructure.

It isn’t just the fear of technology speaking, because I have always been ready and willing to adopt technology and to accept change where that technology and change represented a positive advancement in human productivity. I was among the first among my friends to have a personal computer, to use the internet, to self-publish books, to market online, to start a blog, etc. I like the idea of scanning products as a means of purchasing items faster and keeping a more accurate inventory, all of these things benefit me.

Surveillance does not. Storing of private information about purchases, tracked by GPS, etc., does not benefit me, they benefit the state’s desire to control me, corporate desire to control my purchases. It’s simply a recognition of the adverse uses of technology on humanity that instills a healthy resistance.

I heard it mentioned on some post somewhere that refusing to use AI is the same as refusing to use a computer. A computer, in isolation from the internet, does not track me, open me up to invasion of privacy, subject me to identity theft, etc. It’s only when combined with the internet in it’s current version that it becomes dangerous and I assumed, naively, that counter applications would be as ubiquitous as the invasive sort, making the internet safer. That didn’t happen, or not quickly enough, to secure one’s activities from surveillance.

What 1984 does now is pull the curtain back on the motives of the Marxists as they bastardize the concepts of gender, truth, freedom, reality, denying what one sees for themselves, witnesses, and attacks those truths with a vehemence that can only be derived from a form of mental illness.

Making insane statements like six to sixteen genders, when logic and historical reality proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there are only two is a function of the state to destroy truth, to replace it with another truth, to scrub history of the facts so blatantly obvious to any conscious being that one questions their own sanity. To control language is to control everything. To control history is to control the future.

Yet, this Orwellian process is ongoing, supported and cheered by governments around the world. Nowhere is this more evident than in the migration lobby, where they deny the truths of cultural conflict to make their crimes seem less egregious. Yes, they did bring in millions of foreigners who would rape and murder their otherwise peaceful citizens and then blame the peaceful citizens for noticing their crimes, while still denying that the acts are happening.

The events surrounding the murder of Henry Nowack have spoken for themselves. We’ve all seen this and finally there are those who refuse to ignore the plain truth of this horrendous crime, both by the perpetrator himself and the perpetrators in government who allowed it and then denied that they allowed it and told everyone in the world that what they saw was disallowed to be recognized. I’m not sure Orwell would present to us what we have witnessed ourselves today for fear of being called hyperbolic.

Truth is the way and refusing en masse to accept the lie is as important as anything this generation will ever do. I am heartened, because issue of Henry Nowack is getting the attention and response it deserves.

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