I just realized that it’s Friday the 13th — what a fitting day for this post! 😀 [1]
While growing up, I learned some things that seem sort of out of vogue today. One such cornerstone of my learning experience was an opposition to anything that reeks of dictatorship or similar mob actions. Freedom was very much about intellectual freedom. I have written about this time and again (if you want to read more about this, check out some of the links on the homepage 😉 ).
In contrast, life today appears to me as if it were all about being in alignment with Big Brother. [2] Whether turning on the tube to watch, listen and follow the newspeak or turning to the Pope of the Internet [3] for guidance, or whatever, … it seems like everywhere modern men and women are in chains … chained to some sort of propaganda system or other that dictates their lives, right down to their thoughts. [4] The propaganda engines have been finely tuned and employ some of the most sophisticated technology available to mobsters everywhere all over the world (as we know it). [5]
The regular individual is a nobody.
In order to be a somebody, you need many millions of followers. VC money. Rapper jewels. A White House. Something with street cred.
Opinions don’t do shit. There ain’t no algorithms for ideas. Like Vinnie Barbarino used to say: “gimme clicks, gimme clicks, gimmie clicks, …”.
