Before continuing our accent to the
"power tower" -- searching for possibilities of presenting our case ... what
exactly is our case? It surely encompasses a host of issues. Heading the list is our right
to follow "The American Dream" that took so much effort to evolve to full
potential. We want to continue to pursue in an unhampered atmosphere, our hard won
revolutionary inheritance, our constitutional guarantees. Following closely would be the
absolute need for preserving what is left of family and the tools required to rebuild this
endangered fundamental principle for success.
Living in a working man’s
sinking economy -- a society becoming more polarized than ever ... each situation pounds
on the other. Another, no less critical, issue to address is the disappearing ability to
feel worthwhile and connected. Productive citizens have been cut from the world they knew
and are being left to flounder aimlessly. Members of that society are piling up like
corpses in a shooting war.
If we concentrate on the statistics fabricated by an artful government
bureaucracy, it would appear that unemployment figures are lower than in previous more
severe worker disturbances. They are saying we are more prosperous than ever and have
nothing to protest about. On the other hand, they are just as adamant when insisting our
dilemma is temporary and the future will be brighter. What exactly are they trying to sell
us? They "our servants of choice?" don’t really care which message quells
our discontent. Either one is a hoax. Realizing its deception is being scrutinized in a
public forum, one must truly wonder what egos still decree "let the games go
on." Their stadium has grown to the size of the globe. Laws perverted to their
advantage, they are convinced we are well on our way to entrapment in "power’s
culdesac."
It’s time to delve deeper into
the concept of relegating humans to function as a binary factor ... a predictable,
obedient, monitored, maniputable element in a system. Power must be made to believe, when
push finally comes to shove, we will never allow them to continue with that process.
Unless they can develop the means to alter our imbedded human traits (science is working
on that now) and total elimination of emotional explosion ... rage and revolt will always
remain a possibility. For the moment, "power’s opportunistic use of exploding
technology" is sustaining their ego. They must truly be convinced they are in control
of the ultimate tool. "They are not!"
I have tried different ways to
portray the negative impact of the chip. The following should make very clear what results
from enforced dependence on the chip. Not until I was a personal witness to an event that
took place before my very eyes, was I truly convinced of my convictions.
In a room full of telemarketers
(mostly senior citizens) the supervisor, a youngster hired for the position because he was
"computer literate," sat at his desk of authority frantically pounding away at
his computer’s key-board. His boss, visible through an open door, was doing the same
in an adjacent room. The telemarketers, waiting for leads, sat idly by watching in
disbelief.
The waiting crew were all
experienced, but new hires. They had been assembled to reverse a near catastrophe. The
past week had almost brought an end to the business. The telemarketers, ready, able, and
willing to do their job were beset by new management’s unpreparedness. They had no
up-to-date lists to call from. With a desire to have the company succeed and keep their
jobs, they huddled and came up with a solution guaranteed to work. It was a demonstration
of practical adjustment and cooperative innovation ... the practiced human mind is capable
of achieving. Being from the old school of fostering innovative problem solving, they were
flabbergasted when management wouldn’t consider their simple solution.
As they silently waited, prevented
from being productive, the supervisor kept hammering away at the computer. Though he was
earnestly trying his best to overcome the dilemma, (dogmatically trained to be computer
literate) he determined the solution had to lie somewhere within the machine. It was
unmistakably obvious he had lost touch with reality. His brain’s ability to solve
problems had been eradicated. He was a cerebrally rewired drone ... a "Push
Hamburger" alteration. The telemarketers were waiting as he kept crunching numbers,
hypnotically convinced he would produce the results his boss wanted. The boss, still
visible through the open door, had not slowed his attempt to get results from the
computer. Both remained oblivious to the telemarketers’ readiness to perform with a
readily viable solution. Only the clackety clack of the computers keyboard filled the
rooms.
Unable to develop the needed lists --
not daring to substitute mind over chip -- he caved, gave up and sent the workers home
with pay. The workers, unable to circumvent "chip entrapment," were reluctantly
forced to concede. Their ability to solve problems through mental gymnastics was beyond
the comprehension of this new breed "the computer literate." A sign of the
future?
Operations at a standstill, the
company flew in more computer literate managers. Nothing meaningful was ever accomplished.
Telemarketers, the front line performers, (professional, capable performers) were kept
away from the process. The computers whirred on. The operation collapsed. Everyone
(including the telemarketers) were blamed. The computer literate executives who had been
flown in, packed their bags and returned to jobs in different places. The telemarketers,
the heart of the enterprise, but treated as the lowest level of functional contributors,
were dismissed. There was no job waiting for them. So you see! a group using old style
problem solving abilities were trashed. Has the capable mind become that much of a threat
to "Power?" It seems so.
I can find no better way to
illustrate the energy expended by power to deter a worker’s thought processes from
prevailing. They just want to convert us to their far reaching agenda ... a planned
conversion of the human race. They are devoid of value -- exhibit total absence from
regard ... and must be considered as a real threat to society.
What I had witnessed was the
progression of technological enslavement, culminating in the elimination of productive,
fully functioning thought processes ... embodied within the "pre-chip
disposables."
As "power’s rhetoric"
surrounds us without let up, we the displaced are becoming a gathering storm. Rebellious
against further attempts to retrain us for what has never been made clear, but
nevertheless backed by our government ... our patience is being tried to the limit. Could
it be mindless interaction with a machine, or worse? Alarm-bells are sounding across
America. If we don’t rise to the occasion and stop the onslaught, power’s
demonic use of the chip will only increase in frenzy.
Properly harnessed, in ways we have
yet to agree upon, the "chip and us" can create a world of tomorrow that should
satisfy both worker and power. It is possible.
Only a short time ago, when robotics
came on the scene to replace humans, there was a fearsome outcry from the workforce.
Corporate rushed to quell their fears and firmly explained how it would become an
economically rewarding event for everyone. The elimination of dirty sweaty factories was
just around the corner. We were enticed to look ahead. There will be clean music filled
environments, less hours, more leisure time to spend with family ... all this and
financial rewards to enable it. It did become true for some. It was another story for
those that were displaced. The upper level of management was pleased. Those downgraded to
"Push Hamburger" were not. Upper management, a new army of computer literate,
unaware of what lay in their future (while laboring harder) soon realized they
weren’t keeping up with the bills. This, much to their chagrin, became their reward
for bonding with the "electronic promised land."
I have continually been
relating to America, but it is not only Americans who are being captured in this
electronic age. In Germany, Japan, Sweden and newly developing regions, such as
the Pacific Rim, the computer has become no less a teeming part of their lives.
Here is the rub. In their countries it has enhanced their lives, created rising
economic advantage for the worker and resulting social improvement. These
economies, in relation to the worker, are growing faster, as our economy in
relation to the worker is disintegrating. Who innovated it all? We did. What
happened to us? Corporate has been running amuck as our government helps speed
them along.
If others can benefit right
now, not somewhere in the future as we Americans are told will happen when we
cross over some nebulous bridge ... something wrong is happening here. We, the
innovators and developers of this awesome technology, should remain far ahead of
the world in worker’s economic improvement ... rather than looking at other
countries and wondering where we lost it. Now, if it is still possible, we must
be satisfied to engage in a most distasteful struggle to catch up to the growth
of third world manufacturing accomplishments. Has our dream, along with our
jobs, been shipped over there?
To act rewardingly, we must
first believe change for the better is possible, and we will no longer allow
power’s appetite to take food from our table.
This inevitable “chip oriented
world” must be channeled into accomplishing what it was touted to be capable of
... a better more prosperous life for all, (the worker included). Engineers of
progress should be
engaged with proper enriching
social interaction, and corporate should be forced to operate under the
guidelines of our founding fathers.
“We The People” have a moral
obligation to recapture and restore our country, our lives, a spirit of
unfettered opportunity ... the rightful inheritance of children yet to be born.
All is not hopeless. Americans
-- not corporate -- have always shown the world ... when the going gets tough,
the tough get going.
TOGETHER WE CAN REGAIN OUR RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD
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