Ubiquitous cameras and global communications combined with ultra-fast computers will shortly be able to pull up everything you've said or done that wasn't hidden perfectly.
Most public space in the civilized world has not only stationary cameras but thousands of phone cameras. Hidden cameras with battery and recorder for video hidden in a cigarette lighter can be purchased from China by anyone with enoughh money to eat a meal at a fast-food restaurant--not top-of-the-line ultra-miniature stuff by any means--consider that this is consumer equipment and you know that gov'ts have equipment at least 3 orders of magnitude smaller 40mm > 0,4mm length.
What stopped Big Brother 60 years ago was the need to have humans to monitor each other--which leads to an unafordable cost.
Cheap computing makes it possible to handle, evaluate, store all data and send only the things that evaluated as 'of interest.'
Privacy is nearly impossible outside your own head.
The big question boils down to: Do we turn access to all of this off to some centralized authority(ies)? Or do we allow everyone access to it all.
The biggest problems with privacy come not with individual rights, but with the ability of some to know all and keep others ignorant--tyranny is the usual result of secrecy (privacy.)
We have literally millions of laws on this planet, most of which are ignored or written to be circumvented. This happens away from the public eye. Open the public eye and society will be forced to determine which rules are important and enforceable and which are not.
The risk is in allowing those in control to continue to hide their activities is far greater than the risk that those in power will use that power to cement their own power.
Note that a society in which everyone agrees not to perform certain acts never creates laws against them. Such laws only arise in places where those acts do occur, and which some power block finds unacceptable.
Honest men seldom brag about their honesty--it never occurs to them that others aren't like themselves.
Dishonesty becomes profitable only when being detected has only a local effect which can be negated by changing location.
If you live in a small village, everyone knows who is trustworthy and to what degree--get out of line too far and people will refuse to deal with you. Within a huge population base, the news won't get to everyone (though the Net is changing that.) Since only a minuscule percentage of any huge population need be cheated (or a huge population cheated to a tiny degree each,) in order to thrive, criminal operators don't need to worry about reputation.
Robbing only one small bank of everything will support you for many years--and can be done in minutes via Net (though as with most large operations, preparation may take considerably longer.)
While the only observations over much of the planet are space-based and interested in only a tiny subset of activity, nothing precludes their use for other purposes...you can find private spaces. but guaranteeing that they are private is much, much harder. In cities, where the bulk of the population with the ability to effect major changes live, it is much, much harder to even find a place--and with the eyes watching, and recording, it is not difficult to find out where you are meeting after the fact. With current equipment "persons of interest" can be tracked and recorded quite easily unless stringent measures are taken.
The other aspect is timeliness. There are many places where advance notice of even a minute or less can make millions.
Information often has an associated time frame in which it has value--and may have no value or even reverse value after that time.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Why Perry isn't a threat.
(I had said that it is far too early to worry about Perry because he's a strawman who will be dropped from the race. The response was that Perry is deadly serious about winning.)
I have no doubt that Perry's plan is to win.
In American politics, what the candidate wants is mostly irrelevant. It's no secret that the major political parties are not controlled by their members, but that their members are controlled by the party leadership--who are, in turn, controlled by private interests.
While it is in their interests to control everything they can, the current system allows them to have control while seeming to be controlled by the people. The people are largely controlled by what they hear and see, nearly all of which comes through conservative-owned 'liberal' media channels.
People do not vote on logic, they vote (and make most other decisions,) based upon their emotions. The advantage of the appeal to the religious conservatives (despite a long record of failing to even attempt to deliver on campaign promises,) is that "God & Country" are extreme buttons for most, if you can convince them emotionally that they are going to "save the Nation and return to Godliness," your actual agenda and actions go unnoticed.
Appeals to sanity and thoughtful deliberation are boring.
This is is why wrapping yourself in the flag and pointing to the sky and screaming keeps people from asking or noticing what you are actually doing. It's good enough that it has often been used to convince people to vote against their own best interests (most notably GE's Nazi party leader Hitler being handed full control of Germany at the insistence of the people.)
Any conman knows that the best con is one in which the victim begs you to take their money.
Slavery works far better when it doesn't look like slavery (though the old-fashioned methods still see wide-spread use here and around the world.
Last I looked, 16% of Americans are either agnostic or atheists--who tend to vote independently. Independent votes are usually the single factor in winning an election. There are smaller numbers of non-Christian religions, but together they add up to a substantial voting block.
If he were to win, well, the best way to eliminate unjust and illegal 'laws' is through tough enforcement. We're way overdue for a revolution anyway.
Voting for the least evil candidates is a guarantee that your gov't will be controlled by evil...we've gotten darn good at it.
The majority have little confidence in their elected representatives and the gov 't in any case, and America has a deeply ingrained streak of anarchy which tends to rise to the top at any sign of tyrannical government (although hiding behind elections has worked far too well.)
Could Perry get elected? Yes--Bush managed it and the new voting system is easier to manipulate than the old.
In my analysis it is extremely unlikely that he will receive any substantial support after next Spring--probably throwing his crazed backers to one of the more 'moderate' GOP candidates.
Elections are a big show put on to distract the people and convince them that they are in control. That way they tend to accept whatever garbage is shoved at them.
The same people rule the world today as throughout history--the most ruthless and amoral, those willing to do anything to be on top. The problem facing them is that the easiest way to raise yourself up when standing on the backs of the people is to raise the people up too.
Conflict between nations has been largely a matter of the business of war rather than ideology for a very long time. Corporate America made huge profits on every war last century--regardless of the outcome. Our heavy debt load is almost entirely money borrowed by the gov't to pay the corporations for war materials (nearly always with a substantial guaranteed profit.)
Of course, things change, and no one has enough information to make a truly accurate prediction--I've been wrong before and certainly will be again in the future.
Our world economic system is falling apart because people have lost faith in the fiat currency. The actual physical resources are being held by the controlling interests. You will note that China has purchased a tremendous pile of hard resources (ore bodies, oil rights, land,) using fiat money. So have global corporations.
The old evils are still with us: disease (which often could be controlled, but isn't;) military war (which gathers resources from general population and distributes them to a few corporations--true war has been economic for many decades if not centuries;) famine (created despite adequate foodstuffs--though that is likely to change in the near future;) slavery (in many different forms.)
This all sounds like a conspiracy, and we've been taught that; conspiracies are only true when the gov't puts them forth, that conspiracys require unattainable secrecy, and that they are very rare.
But conspiracies are common. They can be tacit, rather than direct. Members can be large groups which do not know or even suspect that they are part of a conspiracy. Conspiracy takes many forms from direct control of pricing (2006 DOW chemical announced that "In order to control rising prices of titanium oxide, DOW is raising prices in Asia." Note that this announcement followed by about 1 year, the announcement of an improved process to refine titanium which is expected to reduce costs 90%. Titanium oxide is one of the more abundant materials in the Earth's upper crust--only the expense of refining has prevented titanium metal from wider use in our society.
This of course, follows the proven technique of A. Hitler and many others of 'hiding' a conspiracy by announcing the entire plan publicly.
I have no doubt that Perry's plan is to win.
In American politics, what the candidate wants is mostly irrelevant. It's no secret that the major political parties are not controlled by their members, but that their members are controlled by the party leadership--who are, in turn, controlled by private interests.
While it is in their interests to control everything they can, the current system allows them to have control while seeming to be controlled by the people. The people are largely controlled by what they hear and see, nearly all of which comes through conservative-owned 'liberal' media channels.
People do not vote on logic, they vote (and make most other decisions,) based upon their emotions. The advantage of the appeal to the religious conservatives (despite a long record of failing to even attempt to deliver on campaign promises,) is that "God & Country" are extreme buttons for most, if you can convince them emotionally that they are going to "save the Nation and return to Godliness," your actual agenda and actions go unnoticed.
Appeals to sanity and thoughtful deliberation are boring.
This is is why wrapping yourself in the flag and pointing to the sky and screaming keeps people from asking or noticing what you are actually doing. It's good enough that it has often been used to convince people to vote against their own best interests (most notably GE's Nazi party leader Hitler being handed full control of Germany at the insistence of the people.)
Any conman knows that the best con is one in which the victim begs you to take their money.
Slavery works far better when it doesn't look like slavery (though the old-fashioned methods still see wide-spread use here and around the world.
Last I looked, 16% of Americans are either agnostic or atheists--who tend to vote independently. Independent votes are usually the single factor in winning an election. There are smaller numbers of non-Christian religions, but together they add up to a substantial voting block.
If he were to win, well, the best way to eliminate unjust and illegal 'laws' is through tough enforcement. We're way overdue for a revolution anyway.
Voting for the least evil candidates is a guarantee that your gov't will be controlled by evil...we've gotten darn good at it.
The majority have little confidence in their elected representatives and the gov 't in any case, and America has a deeply ingrained streak of anarchy which tends to rise to the top at any sign of tyrannical government (although hiding behind elections has worked far too well.)
Could Perry get elected? Yes--Bush managed it and the new voting system is easier to manipulate than the old.
In my analysis it is extremely unlikely that he will receive any substantial support after next Spring--probably throwing his crazed backers to one of the more 'moderate' GOP candidates.
Elections are a big show put on to distract the people and convince them that they are in control. That way they tend to accept whatever garbage is shoved at them.
The same people rule the world today as throughout history--the most ruthless and amoral, those willing to do anything to be on top. The problem facing them is that the easiest way to raise yourself up when standing on the backs of the people is to raise the people up too.
Conflict between nations has been largely a matter of the business of war rather than ideology for a very long time. Corporate America made huge profits on every war last century--regardless of the outcome. Our heavy debt load is almost entirely money borrowed by the gov't to pay the corporations for war materials (nearly always with a substantial guaranteed profit.)
Of course, things change, and no one has enough information to make a truly accurate prediction--I've been wrong before and certainly will be again in the future.
Our world economic system is falling apart because people have lost faith in the fiat currency. The actual physical resources are being held by the controlling interests. You will note that China has purchased a tremendous pile of hard resources (ore bodies, oil rights, land,) using fiat money. So have global corporations.
The old evils are still with us: disease (which often could be controlled, but isn't;) military war (which gathers resources from general population and distributes them to a few corporations--true war has been economic for many decades if not centuries;) famine (created despite adequate foodstuffs--though that is likely to change in the near future;) slavery (in many different forms.)
This all sounds like a conspiracy, and we've been taught that; conspiracies are only true when the gov't puts them forth, that conspiracys require unattainable secrecy, and that they are very rare.
But conspiracies are common. They can be tacit, rather than direct. Members can be large groups which do not know or even suspect that they are part of a conspiracy. Conspiracy takes many forms from direct control of pricing (2006 DOW chemical announced that "In order to control rising prices of titanium oxide, DOW is raising prices in Asia." Note that this announcement followed by about 1 year, the announcement of an improved process to refine titanium which is expected to reduce costs 90%. Titanium oxide is one of the more abundant materials in the Earth's upper crust--only the expense of refining has prevented titanium metal from wider use in our society.
This of course, follows the proven technique of A. Hitler and many others of 'hiding' a conspiracy by announcing the entire plan publicly.
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