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 even more snarled. Biden can slash and burn some parts of it, but more will twist and enmesh somewhere else, and fill in the same crevices where things were ripped out just to sprout again. You must rip out root and branch, and burn every inch. That is not possible via the same system that protects it, or messes with it.

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The They in every government takeover movie is an allegory. The ingenious A.I., or superior alien being, is merely us losing control, and allowing others to take more and more control from us. Movies give us a technology to fear, but no technology can have as much power over us as the political system already has. The control comes from a substantial wealth imbalance a.k.a. inequality, and how that imbalance of power corrupts politics. Americans have never been consistently very active, assertive, or aggressive, even since the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Presidential voting hardly ever surpasses 60%. That is the…