Has trust been the biggest issue in helping us to arrive where we currently exist? It bears consideration. After all, can you imagine collecting your own DNA and then sending it off to a private corporation? Can you imagine what happens to all that collected DNA when the company goes out of business? As the Electronic Frontier Foundation warns, “Your DNA is the most personal data you have. When you give it to companies, you can’t control how it’s used.” How is it that so many of us were willing to trust a company we know nothing about with the building blocks that uniquely make us? And all for the promise of informing you about your heritage, with no way to fact check the data given.
I am told that my Grandparents generation had to be socially engineered to accept aspirin. They were apparently very suspicious about the claims attached to the little white pill. And this brings up another thought I have had. Why is a generation marked at 20 years? My Grandparents were born at the end of the 1800s. My parents were born near 1930, and lived until near the new millennium. I was born just past halfway into the 1900s. Now consider the social engineering in play now with regard to Boomers, Gen X, Gen Z, Alpha, Millennials, and so on. There have always been differences in the generations, but steroids have been added for current social engineering usage. Much like the invention of the term “teenagers” which was employed for social engineering purposes in the 1960s.
Setting aside my ramshackle thought train, I was getting at the reality of “trust” in this era. An era where we opt into so many things with a click not knowing anything about what we have just agreed to, or with who we are agreeing. Again, in my Grandparents time trust was not so readily handed out. It had to be earned, and once it was, that meant something. Something firm. Something that could be counted on. Back then, the idea that a man was only as good as his word predominated. I was witness to agreements sealed and counted on through a handshake between those who had gained trust. To be fair, this was a time where so much of the world was tangible, which is closer to nature. The world now is driven through intangible systems that very few of us understand, never mind being able to hold it in your hand. But this too lends itself to those who are dead set on total world control. They will not succeed in the long run. Though, they may gain control of a “short season”.
My main point in all these words is to offer the idea that trust needs to be earned. Also, that once dishonesty is discovered, do not give that a pass. It is evidence of character whether in a company or a person. It is also evidence that it may well happen again, now that the source has shown dishonesty. The days of parading every detail of your life online needs to come to an end. Not only do you have no idea what is done with your data, you have no reason to trust those who are collecting it. In one revealing experiment, a journalist tried to hide her pregnancy from tracking algorithms and found it nearly impossible. As she put it, “Through our phones, we are under perpetual surveillance by companies that buy and sell data about what kind of person we are, whom we might vote for, what we might purchase, and what we might be nudged into doing.” This was called “The Hidden Pregnancy Experiment”. It should go without saying, it is not in your benefit whatever is done with the data. It is up to us whether or not we choose to claim the rights of ownership over our lives and data thereby generated. If we choose to continue on as we have recently, a “short season” is almost certain to follow.
Forwarded fromCrrow777 Radio
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