Is the Internet actually evil? No more so than the telephone lines or the equipment that handles millions of calls a minute. The Internet is a virtual Post Office. Nobody can possibly maintain an effective vigil on postal mail and telegram and teletype and messenger-delivered and air-freighted that pass between millions of people at a time, much less the CMT — Casual Message Traffic — that has developed electronically, where someone might write into their facebook or twitter log several dozen times an hour, the equivalent of snail-mail output of hundreds of letters per day to hundreds of friends all over the world, and all that electronic chatter is sent over some kind of wire, whether metal, light-optic fibre, radio, short-wave, wireless transmitter, Atlantic Cable, or somebody pounding on a talking drum.
The mail services around the world do not typically encourage their folks to send porn through the mails, but all over the world, they do, and in other countries besides the United States, they don’t have to send them in “plain brown wrappers” as folks used to do back in the Good Old Days, 1930 to the present time, yet we don’t say that the mail services are responsible for porn.
Scavengers and derelicts and scoundrels abound, but then, they always have. Anyone unfortunate enough to end up a victim of some kind of Fagan, the pickpocket boss from the musical “Oliver”, based on “Oliver Twist”, a famous Dickens novel about a boy who went from pickpocket to millionaire overnight, just by singing instead of talking.
These days, all the wrappings of civilization and the veneer of congeniality have been stripped away. Never mind who’s at fault. People who are badly educated or uneducated have no idea about the world beyond their own skins, and no concept of a world larger than their immediate territory and personal needs.
The United States used to have one of the finest educational systems in the world. Today, it ranks near the bottom, and that includes many undeveloped nations.
Education pays off.
Real education is not letters and numbers and learning by rote, memorizing every “fact” and figure as if studying baseball cards and golf scores. Education has to do with learning that there are others out there beyond the skin, and that they have needs and feelings, too.
It’s about learning softness in a hard world.
There is no substitute for softness and grace, and the ignorance, ambition and greed of the average politician makes a bad situation into an eco-disaster, because they don’t subscribe to education as a popular right — every educational failure of the past 55 years has had a money motivation, where industry and the military got the benefit of the educational system’s losses. When the money dries up, the schools go hungry.
You want to try to change someone’s opinion with facts? Don’t make me laugh when my lips are chapped. Believe it, an uneducated person cannot be informed — they already know as much as they’re going to accept, and nothing you say or show them is going to change their set patterns, and lack of education tends to bring about arrogance and rejective attitudes in a classic overcompensation fugue called “EGO”, the very essence of the core illness that creates tragedies such as NPD, Narcissistic Personaly Disorder, and the bestiality of our culture transmogrifies that into normality for the male animal, and in a way, they’re quite right — males are males and females are females, at least when it comes to humans.
Like birds, humans are Creatures of Habit.
Your only hope for a high spiritual future is to break those organic habits, and that’s not easy — it doesn’t happen just by wishing. You have to really work hard to make it so.
Okay, then what happens when people get ignorant, or choose to remain ignorant? Why would someone CHOOSE to remain ignorant?
Mostly it’s religious brainwashing. Look under the heading: “common scams” for the various examples of modern superstitions that generate income at the expense of the stockholders. So what would you get with a nation of ignorant idiots?
Just exactly what you’re seeing — easily manipulated taxpaying puppets who actually believe that when they’re spending money at a “MIDNIGHT MADNESS SALE”, they’re SAVING money, not SPENDING money, and who subscribe to the Disney American Dream of “Someday My Prince Will Come” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”.
It’s a lot more like Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff than Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
Laugh if you will, but most people have no idea what’s going down. Street people are a little wiser to the action, but they have a twisted way of seeing and evaluating what they see, because to them, the “straights” are “chumps” who make “chump change” — less than a hundred bucks — for hard work like typing, instead of making their money on an easy blow job on a total stranger whose mind is a million miles elsewhere at the time, and then spending what money they do happen to get from their pimps on more drugs to forget what’s happening to them.
In K-Mart’s family store, you’ll find “Naughty Nighties” and provocative open-crotch sleepwear with big boobie cups and that “Merry Widow” look, without all the lashes and ties. Every family has one, just as every teenager has at least one tattoo as soon as they can sneak it past mom and dad.
In every and any women’s boutique anywhere in the world, you’ll find “Victoria’s Secret” style undergarments and tons of sex toy and sex game items. Why? Because the J. Edgar Hoover Lid is Off. When Hoover died, it was like when General Franco died. The mob burns and destroys their oppressor’s body, alive or dead, and when Franco died, the folks invited Pete Seeger to sing the Songs of the Lincoln Brigade to millions of fans of freedom.
Personal freedom means that everyone has the freedom to be themselves, and the Social Contract SHOULD guarantee that all those who live in a FREE COUNTRY respect the rights of others to be their own individual selves, provided their freedom does not impinge upon the rights and freedoms of others.
In short, you live like you want to live, and I’ll live the way I want to live, and we will treat each other with respect and dignity, and be respectful of each other’s beliefs, rituals and life-styles.
Good fucking luck on that one.
If there’s any way in the world for crazies to inflict their craziness on others, they’ll find a way to do it or kill you and everyone you know in the process of savaging the planet with their brand of lifestyle and beliefs.
So the fact is that there’s a world of really nasty predators out there, looking very much like human beings, but inside, they’re mindless savage beasts, animals without a care for anyone but themselves and their own personal greed.
Animals have always used camouflage, disguise and ambush to entrap their victims, but people do it even dirtier and meaner than the savage beasts — they’ll “friend” you before they stick the knife into your back. Humans are a LOT more savage than the beasts, and I can prove it.
Humans kill for sport.
Of course, they also screw for sport, and mostly live for sport, and their sport usually depends upon someone getting hurt or killed, just as in the Coliseum and the Circus Maximus in ancient Rome.
But nothing that humans do to one another is actually a result of the internet, and as a matter of fact, the internet is going down quite soon — those scientists in-the-know are aware of the quantum communications gear that’s already on the assembly line in Japan and will be here very soon. The predators will always be the first on the block, the first to know how to exploit every angle, perform every perverted trick in the book and spoil it all for the rest, but they won’t need or use the internet for the purpose. They won’t have to.
The internet is outdated, and the equipment needed to run it can be duplicated in virtual, so why build things when you don’t need to, and why perform millions of hours of repair and maintenance on machines and wire and cable that will be outmoded by speed issues and crumbling into dust in just a few years?
Communication always takes new forms. In the case of the present changes in communications, it’s because of information storage and processing speed improvements that these things can take place.
You couldn’t have done anything like Facebook with snail mail, and they tried. Pen Pals was a potent force, but nothing like the information traffic that goes out NOW and is published and posted AS IT’S HAPPENING!!!
News services are pre-empted by facebook and youtube.
What happens today is on facebook today. It’s not the internet that’s doing the harm, it’s the creeps that get on it to exploit and dominate others that creates the impression that the internet is evil. The Internet isn’t any more evil than money.
No, money is NOT the root of all evil, it’s the LOVE OF MONEY that is the Biblical root of all evil, and I’ll bet that someone with a very tight asshole is going to extract the first part of what I said, “The Internet isn’t any more evil than money”, and obliterate or ignore the second part of that statement, “Money is not the root of all evil, the LOVE of money is the root of all evil”. Why? Because assholes always do that.
Am I afraid of Internet Bullies? Fuck, no. There’s nothing they can say about me that hasn’t already been said, probably by me. Internet bullies are like any other coward. They hide behind anonymity, as they used to do when they’d hit another kid, and run behind their mother, which used to be called “hiding behind mommy’s skirt”.
Ignorance is merely the lack of information, and that can be easily repaired by giving the information freely, and backing up the information with provable demonstrable facts. Ignorance can be cured by communication. For stupid, there is no cure.
Stupid is permanent, and people who are really really stupid are very easily humiliated, creating a fear-reaction of anger and hatred. Stupid doesn’t mean “NOT SMART”, although most people think that it does. Don’t forget that anger, hostility and hatred are actually manifestations of fear, they are simple animal fear-reactions, and some apes as well as humans make pretty much the same facial expressions when manifesting anger or hate — and hate-enthralled humans look exactly like chimpanzees when they get mad.
Stupid means “stupified”, rock-solid and impenetrable, and that includes any fanatic of any kind. A fanatic leaves no room for me and you in his or her world.
Gorebagg Da Lost, 2015.
Who rules the Internet? Nobody yet, but there are moves to tax it, control it and manipulate the Great Unwashed through it. So far, only the crowd-hypnosis is in place, but the taxation and control are coming.
Every country in the world, going back to the Babylonians and Sumerians, has always found a way to tax and control the people. The Internet is presently out of their control, and they don’t like that. It’s the bankers, industrialists and politicians who will decide your fate, acting on the orders of their bosses, the crime syndicates of the underworld.
Is there a Hell on Earth? Yes, there is. It’s called “The Underworld”, and it’s filled with people who want to do lousy things to others, largely for sport, but mostly because they don’t know what else to do with life.
To the uneducated and ignorant, there’s a world out there to be discovered, and a wealth of friends and family and a spiritual nature to it all. To the stupid, there’s just billions of suckers waiting to be taken.
My Dad Horace used an ancient Latin saying to combat Evil — “Illegitimati Non-Carborundum”. A carborundum is a stone used to sharpen kitchen knives in a professional restaurant kitchen, and sometimes in a private kitchen if the cook is anywhere near “good”. “Illegitimate” — not legal — used to mean that your parents weren’t married, as if anybody cares now. The translation?
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
And that goes double for the Internet.
You don’t have to be exposed to the Evil that is on the Internet. Just stay away from those neighborhoods. But if you aren’t street-wise on the Internet, you could easily stumble into one of those rotten websites or internet pirates that cuts throats and grins in glee.
In short, stay out of the shadows, stay away from the doorways and alleys, keep to the middle of the street, the NUMBER ONE RULE in the Bardos.
If you aren’t hungry, you can’t be had.
More about this subject at this weekend’s workshop. You can attend online starting at 6:30 am this very morning, and I hope you take what I’m saying about the Internet to heart. It’s only as evil as you give it power.
Anyone taking exception to what I’m saying is welcome to their own opinion, but don’t try to cram your opinion down on anybody else’s head, or you’ll have me to answer to on the Other Side.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby