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‘Idiocracy’ Come True: Even Pentagon Says Morons Are Inheriting the Earth!
- Thread starter Gypsy Nirvana
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I mostly agree but...
To the ferrier...
Not everybody lives in those automated cities or even wants to.
The ferrier makes a damn good living with the ranchers. without them you dont get your steak delivered to your door (grocery store).
4 wheelers can't go everywhere and neither can drones!
I'm getting on for 60 and I never learned to shoe a horse. I did once try to get my head around using a slide-rule for mathematical calculations, then suddenly we had ELECTRONIC CALCULATORS.....and the rest is history, ping-pong, pac-man and flight simulators etc etc......and etc.
So I'm not one of the blacksmiths of the past, although I did learn how to sharpen a blade and butcher meat with it, and that might come in handy someday once the supermarkets/markets run out of stuff to buy, or we run out of stuff to buy supermarket stuff with. Knowing how to plant seeds might come in well handy too.
That cracking bones from carrion and sucking the bone marrow out stage of evolution/survival might come back to haunt us yet... So de-evolution may need a de-evolving of what 'smarts' really is seen as today, IF we are to continue to 'dumb-down' collectively as the human race.
What happens if the majority of humans de-evolve and a small minority go the other way, keeping intelligence within the family of 'elites' and farming the intelligent on the outside to always work for them, whilst suppressing any threats, supposed or future via social/media engineering primarily to retain power and influence over us all? Is that not a 'smart' way to keep power and retain control, by dividing and ruling?
So I'm not one of the blacksmiths of the past, although I did learn how to sharpen a blade and butcher meat with it, and that might come in handy someday once the supermarkets/markets run out of stuff to buy, or we run out of stuff to buy supermarket stuff with. Knowing how to plant seeds might come in well handy too.
That cracking bones from carrion and sucking the bone marrow out stage of evolution/survival might come back to haunt us yet... So de-evolution may need a de-evolving of what 'smarts' really is seen as today, IF we are to continue to 'dumb-down' collectively as the human race.
What happens if the majority of humans de-evolve and a small minority go the other way, keeping intelligence within the family of 'elites' and farming the intelligent on the outside to always work for them, whilst suppressing any threats, supposed or future via social/media engineering primarily to retain power and influence over us all? Is that not a 'smart' way to keep power and retain control, by dividing and ruling?
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I heard that the human brain has actually peaked a few thousand years ago and we have been on a decline since.
Heres an article related but that i did not read. Because thats where we are at. Lol.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/37095-humans-smarter-or-dumber.html
Heres an article related but that i did not read. Because thats where we are at. Lol.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/37095-humans-smarter-or-dumber.html
seeded
Active member
If you want to get a decent case of paranoia assume for a moment that all the world's wealth and resources are already controlled by a handful of elitely bred families. Don't look up the Rothchilds or who runs the central banks of most of the world if you want to retain your sanity....
Now as a so called elite would you want to work hard? Hell no, you'd own the banks, farms, mines and every other staple of society and use cash to enslave the people. So now that you control almost everything, what do you do? Do you allow the people to breed out of control hoping that technological progress can bring you even more wealth and power? What good is it being emperor of a pile of ashes? More than that every person consumes food, housing and other resources which literally divides all that is available so the lower the population the better.
Eventually science and technology will reach it's limits and I imagine we're almost already there. I once saw a flying triangle up close that flew silently and didn't even move the air around me which it should have at the estimated 25m away it was and the speed it was going. I don't believe alien life would visit this shithole of a planet and judging the way it looked I'd say it was man made too. So I think the so called elites already have technology that is generations ahead of what the public has but are hoping we come up with ideas they didn't think of. More than that I think that the current push towards making every nation a multicultural nation is a not putting your eggs in one basket strategy.
In short I think they've almost got what they want already and are about to hit the reset button using a new plague as nuclear war would ravage the planet for generations making them lose the power they had once they resurface from their bunkers. If you think about it logically the longer the stay down there the worse it is for them so it needs to be short lived, not wipe out everyone and keep their power structure intact. If they can do that and wipe out a good 90% of humanity it wouldn't be hard for them to convince us to live together in a much smaller area that they can completely control and then they can let the rest of the world turn back into the garden of eden it was meant to be.
I'm probably crazy but I'd wager they have a final triggering point in place such as a technology they've been waiting for being created, our population to hit 10 billion, etc. that sounds their alarms and lets them live because either I die a crazy man or a rich eccentric one proven right. Who am I kidding? I'm going to die poor either way
OldSchoolGrow
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I know I am 20x smarter than anybody before the internet was invented just by having a cell phone as a extension of my intelligence. Cyborgs. 20x is an understatement. The entire worlds knowledge a click away.
although if you think about it, information that is just a click away, is at the same time information thats a click away from being changed and or deleted and sent down a black memory hole.
having the info available to you means shit unless you are smart enough to understand/use it. almost everyone CAN get the net, and they waste their time looking at porn or funny cat videos. Leonardo Da Vinci et al sneer at our use of what we have.
having the info available to you means shit unless you are smart enough to understand/use it. almost everyone CAN get the net, and they waste their time looking at porn or funny cat videos. Leonardo Da Vinci et al sneer at our use of what we have.
I worked with a guy, and he was very good at what he did. He was intelligent and we often worked together on projects. Anybody that knows me knows I have a nack for knowing random, sometimes obscure stuff and he would often ask me things like how to calculate watts or other random things. And if I didn't know, I'd say "Well, let's see what Google says." One day he asked me a question, and I asked him if his Google was busted. "What do you mean?" he says. So I say "Every time you ask me a question I don't have the answer for, I say 'lets see what Google says.' Can't you just Google the answer yourself?" He looked at me funny, and I said I wasn't trying to be a dick, but you can look something up on Google just as easy as I can. He laughed, and said, Yeah, you're right.
And that takes me back to my previous post. People have all this information available at their finger tips, but instead of looking it up, they want someone to do it for them.
It happens here all the time. Someone will ask a question that's been discussed to death, and someone will pipe up and ask if they bothered to use the search function.
It seems the view of the forest is obscured by trees.
OldSchoolGrow
Member
having the info available to you means shit unless you are smart enough to understand/use it. almost everyone CAN get the net, and they waste their time looking at porn or funny cat videos. Leonardo Da Vinci et al sneer at our use of what we have.
Your argument are people are too dumb to know who to search for something? I would think Google with it's trillions of searches would say you might be wrong.......
Searching for porn also makes you smarter...... I would have never known what "the shocker" is if it wasn't for internet porn, lol.
OldSchoolGrow
Member
I hate not being able to edit, o well.
You have 58 posts now. I think you can edit after 50 posts.
And, absolutely, MANY people are way too stupid to PROPERLY use a search engine. I mean just in terms of WHAT to type into the search box.
Also, I'll bet 1 or 2 out of 10 know that you can use BOOLEAN operators with Google. Probably less that even know what boolean is.
Here's a quick 20 for those who don't know...
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-tips-use-google-search-efficiently.html
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And, absolutely, MANY people are way too stupid to PROPERLY use a search engine. I mean just in terms of WHAT to type into the search box.
Also, I'll bet 1 or 2 out of 10 know that you can use BOOLEAN operators with Google. Probably less that even know what boolean is.
Here's a quick 20 for those who don't know...
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-tips-use-google-search-efficiently.html
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fishinnutt
Member
Idiocracy isn't coming to fruition or truth, it was already in full effect when the story was written. Everything in that movie is a symbol or metaphor for things that were already in full swing at the time. We live in interesting and sad times.
OldSchoolGrow
Member
Who cares if you know how to use all those functions or not? Google scholar alone teaches you more with simple searches than any teacher in the history of the planet. It isn't hard to do a google search. I honestly think you are a little to high and mighty on that soap box, claiming people don't know how to ask google a question........
OldSchoolGrow
Member
That didn't come out right..... Dang no edit. I don't mean to come at you sideways. I just think people are smart enough to do a google search. I mean, my children who are both under 6 can do google searches no problem. They are usually Netflix searches for barbie videos but hey, a search for what they want none the less.
No problem bud. I'm pretty thick skinned. LMAO
You need to meet my wife. EVERY google search she tries comes up with total trash. She simply DOESN'T know how to search. Her brain just doesn't work like that.
And, I'm pretty darn sure she's not the only one. LMAO
I was a puter CS tech for a long long time and believe me, many people are too stupid to PROPERLY use a search engine.
Fortunately for you.. you simple don't know any of them. LOL
A. You're kids might be extra smart.
B. I think the younger gen is simply way better with it because they grew up with it. My wife is 60+ and NOT a puter person. My Mom was 91 and could make a computer dance and sing.
Some people's brain works that way, and some don't. Especially, older peeps who didn't grow up with it. I am amazed at the terms my wife puts into a search engine. I have a buddy, Bill who is the same way.
Example: I told him to search "CAR FORUMS" (he is a car buff). He complained he couldn't find any. When I looked at his search (he uses voice) here is what he entered.... "Google, show me where I can find the things that Ringodoggie was talking to me about yesterday so I can talk to people about my car".
Unfuckingbelievable but, absolutely true.
Some people simple don't know how. Most of us on a forum are 'likely' computer savvy. My buddy doesn't even have a PC. Just a phone. (Actually, he does still have a PC. It has a 5-1/4" floppy drive in it. LMAO)
You need to meet my wife. EVERY google search she tries comes up with total trash. She simply DOESN'T know how to search. Her brain just doesn't work like that.
And, I'm pretty darn sure she's not the only one. LMAO
I was a puter CS tech for a long long time and believe me, many people are too stupid to PROPERLY use a search engine.
Fortunately for you.. you simple don't know any of them. LOL
A. You're kids might be extra smart.
B. I think the younger gen is simply way better with it because they grew up with it. My wife is 60+ and NOT a puter person. My Mom was 91 and could make a computer dance and sing.
Some people's brain works that way, and some don't. Especially, older peeps who didn't grow up with it. I am amazed at the terms my wife puts into a search engine. I have a buddy, Bill who is the same way.
Example: I told him to search "CAR FORUMS" (he is a car buff). He complained he couldn't find any. When I looked at his search (he uses voice) here is what he entered.... "Google, show me where I can find the things that Ringodoggie was talking to me about yesterday so I can talk to people about my car".
Unfuckingbelievable but, absolutely true.
Some people simple don't know how. Most of us on a forum are 'likely' computer savvy. My buddy doesn't even have a PC. Just a phone. (Actually, he does still have a PC. It has a 5-1/4" floppy drive in it. LMAO)
My wife asks me to search for her..
I know why
I know why
St. Phatty
Active member
The Pentagon is one place a young potential whistle-blower should think about getting a job.
In the course of a normal career, they would see lots of boondoggles to blow the whistle on.
One of the interesting things about working for defense contractors is the addition of non-functional personnel to engineering teams.
In the private sector, e.g. microwave instrumentation, you don't perform you OUT. = microwave radios with computers attached
At a military contractor, again, microwave radios with computers attached, there will be strange non-performers on a lot of teams.
When you ask what they you do you are told, "oh he worked for the Air Force", and the obvious observation, he goes to a lot of meetings.
At one military contractor we had a native born Chinese engineer who did NOTHING. I was supposed to be a CAD 'guru', coaching the other engineers on 3D stuff. One time I was sitting at my desk with Victor * and my boss walked in and was making all sorts of strange hand signals when Victor wasn't looking. When I went to his office, I was told not to spend time developing Victor's engineering or CAD skills.
My best guess is, they suspected he might be working for the Chinese government, so they paid him a salary and gave him JN's for doing nothing so they could watch what info he stole ?
So military contractors are a strange mix of people who do normal engineering jobs, people who you don't know what they're doing even though they're in the same cubicle area, and people who you do know what they're doing, but not exactly, because they're in a Classified area.
They sometimes have Extra-Classified engineering areas segregated off in basements and other corners of the facility. Sometimes the personnel who work there are time-shared on projects so it's normal to go see them in the Classified area.
I can't imagine what people do at the Pentagon when they get bored. Take a magazine or now, a Smartphone, to a remote bathroom and read or play video games for an hour.
Always worked for me
In the course of a normal career, they would see lots of boondoggles to blow the whistle on.
One of the interesting things about working for defense contractors is the addition of non-functional personnel to engineering teams.
In the private sector, e.g. microwave instrumentation, you don't perform you OUT. = microwave radios with computers attached
At a military contractor, again, microwave radios with computers attached, there will be strange non-performers on a lot of teams.
When you ask what they you do you are told, "oh he worked for the Air Force", and the obvious observation, he goes to a lot of meetings.
At one military contractor we had a native born Chinese engineer who did NOTHING. I was supposed to be a CAD 'guru', coaching the other engineers on 3D stuff. One time I was sitting at my desk with Victor * and my boss walked in and was making all sorts of strange hand signals when Victor wasn't looking. When I went to his office, I was told not to spend time developing Victor's engineering or CAD skills.
My best guess is, they suspected he might be working for the Chinese government, so they paid him a salary and gave him JN's for doing nothing so they could watch what info he stole ?
So military contractors are a strange mix of people who do normal engineering jobs, people who you don't know what they're doing even though they're in the same cubicle area, and people who you do know what they're doing, but not exactly, because they're in a Classified area.
They sometimes have Extra-Classified engineering areas segregated off in basements and other corners of the facility. Sometimes the personnel who work there are time-shared on projects so it's normal to go see them in the Classified area.
I can't imagine what people do at the Pentagon when they get bored. Take a magazine or now, a Smartphone, to a remote bathroom and read or play video games for an hour.
Always worked for me
Hey!!! I was an independent contractor for the DoD for almost 20 years, LOL
As Curly says, "I resemble that remark. Nyuk nyuk nyuk."
I was a whistle blower early in my career until I learned better. LOL
As for what the peeps in the DoD do when they aren't busy (which is almost always)..... you DO NOT want to know. LMAO
If you don't think the world is full of irony, face this one. The truth is, they sit around and make fun of how stupid you people are. LMAO Meanwhile, you're making fun of how stupid they are.
I had the unique opportunity where I sat on both sides in different situations so I, perhaps, have a more open perspective than those who have only seen one side.
I could tell you things that went on behind closed doors that would make you grab your musket in wayyyy less than a minute. LOL
As Curly says, "I resemble that remark. Nyuk nyuk nyuk."
I was a whistle blower early in my career until I learned better. LOL
As for what the peeps in the DoD do when they aren't busy (which is almost always)..... you DO NOT want to know. LMAO
If you don't think the world is full of irony, face this one. The truth is, they sit around and make fun of how stupid you people are. LMAO Meanwhile, you're making fun of how stupid they are.
I had the unique opportunity where I sat on both sides in different situations so I, perhaps, have a more open perspective than those who have only seen one side.
I could tell you things that went on behind closed doors that would make you grab your musket in wayyyy less than a minute. LOL
