Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 79

[ecosophia]

As we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselessness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Noted on both counts. I've posted many of the AI links that started the threads. I'll hold off.

A bit of explanation as to why I've posted about AI in the past. There are two connections to covid that seem to intersect off and on over time, in strange tangents.

The first is that the AI tools in the past year have leapt forward in ways that make it much easier to achieve what is happening in this week's meme. There has been a lot of lying going on, and now video, audio, text and image evidence is highly suspect from here on out. Not that it wasn't suspect before, but the scale potential has changed. It's like giving the stasi access to modern tools. The change in output quantity has a quality. The brouhaha around Damar is the most recent example. Before, if power centers wanted to lie through media, they had to hire all kinds of creatives. This limited the total output of lies possible. In that previous world, surely everything wasn't a lie. It just took too much time and money to make everything a lie. Some of it had to be true(ish). Now, or soon, they just have to type direction into a text prompt. Out comes a Damar video. I'm guessing as the damage to people's bodies moves into common knowledge, the discussion will be highly massaged and controlled by these AI tools. At least until it finally spills off of the screens and into the streets. Generally, people understand the power and potential of AI tools about as much as they understand magic. Understanding the capabilities of the tools arrayed against the masses in the information battle feels useful, and the capabilities are changing rapidly right now. I fully expect powerful forces to burn all trust in the system down, using any tools at hand, and to burn the system down itself, before they eventually concede.

Secondly, and somewhat darker, I've noticed a decidedly demonic flair to what's trying to come through. I don't think I'm seeing what I want there; I'm not inventing it in my mind. I think it's real. From a 'demonic hypothesis' point of view, it's worth considering how we now tend get the bulk of our information. A 'medium is the message' sort of thing. If AI is increasingly the foundational basis for how the internet is managed and run, and if it's got a demonic bent to it, flavoring the information passing through, it has felt worth exploring.

Anyway, that's why I've pulled them in, but I'll gladly respect the request and cool it on those links.

Murmuration

[(Anonymous)]

I think your first point is correct, Murmuration, and its importance can hardly be overstated.

In my childhood everyone knew that TV advertising was manipulative, and sometimes an independent-minded teacher would devote a lesson to the analysis of an advertisement, showing the students how the appeal was designed to bypass their logic, or exploit their herd instincts, or bamboozle them with ambiguously-worded statistics. I can't say how much good these lessons did, but they were a healthy response to a problem.

What response can be made now, when the manipulation is more powerful and pervasive? Short of withdrawing from tainted media, that is, and trying to carve out a separate space for discourse and entertainment. For the most recent generation, whose connections to the natural world and to the books of the past have both been broken, it's hard to see a way. Perhaps a way is being created by those who have struggled to preserve their humanity through the last three years.

About your second point I'm not qualified to comment, but if true it, too, is chilling.

Gray Hat

[transcriberb]

Murmuration, thanks for being here. I always read your posts.

[p_coyle]

i understand your concern about the so-called artificial intelligence. it presents a problem that will eventually be solved by the long descent.

once "renewable energy" fails to keep up with the digital revolution and all it's promises, certainly the emperor will be laid bare.

give it a century. humans will figure something out. and most likely create a new crisis in the process of trying to fix the old one. it's what we're good at.