If “HAL, Skynet & The Matrix”, Were We-The-People Created & Run…?
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Notice how the movie makers regularly come up with scary systems, or A.I. that will someday, somehow control human society? HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey did it. The Matrix, and Skynet from Terminator also took over humanity. Why are we allowing such a thing to happen, even if it is only in movies? It is because the They figure we are mostly chumps, and consider the great bulk of Americans a democratic mob.
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Not sci-fi or screen writers necessarily, but the way our political system always ends up getting more convoluted, and self damaging. The They is a nebulous entity We The People originally formed, and now have little real control over. While politicians and the wealthy have much of the power, even their control is limited. The They slowly tie up, and snarl the system in ways we cannot see, and other times the problems arise in plain sight. At some point, this loosely held together nebulous will allow groups to wield more, and more uncontrollable power, then collapse on us.
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Think the attack on the nation’s capitol just the other day. Is it the precursor of our complete collapse? Rioters are not the They nebulous, but a tangential expression from one side. The nebulous follows, and gloms onto the next administration, getting…
