"That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.”
From " 1984 " by George Orwell, 1949
March 22, 2020 - U.K. - Coronavirus could kill the tech backlash
The backlash against tech giants may not be over — but at the very least it’s on pause .
April 23, 2020 - Coronavirus pandemic blunts Americans’ Big Tech backlash
Sentiment has shifted as the virus has forced more Americans to rely on online services.
" Sentiment has shifted as the virus has forced more Americans to rely on online services."
Sentiment has not in any way shifted , as the word " forced " clearly shows. But there’s simply no quit in these guys, and of course gals.
That forcing is something called “social engineering”, which is a concept that you are going to have a lot of trouble explaining to a committed Coincidence Theorist.
The truth is, people hate the tech giants for enslaving them, and people hate the sociopaths who engineered the virus to force them to use that technology even moreso.
“The backlash against tech giants may not be over — but at the very least it’s on pause .”
That sounds snide, because it is. It’s an “I’ll allow you a last cigarette” moment for them. Rest assured, they’ll be making cracks like that as the blindfolds are placed upon them.
That’s because there’s simply no quit in these guys, and of course gals.
An Opinion piece from the New York Times from September 2019 is headlined “There Is No Tech Backlash.” And the subhead reads " Worse , we think there is one."
We are in the era when the massive Trumpian mind-fuck works on an incomprehensible number of people. That’s why the New York Times used the tactic. But the best it does here is to slow play.
And, let’s be real, a fourth grader could see through this stuff. It’s not a matter of complexity. It is a dark religion that a majority of the populace practices at this time, albeit unconsciously. A collective mass of the populace subconsciously wants the farce to continue, as it always has.
Our character as a populace has been bred into us, as it has been into sheep. Literally all the way back to Babylon, and before. If you’ve ever seen any film of bighorn sheep in action, you’ll get what I’m saying.
Oh, and there’s that social engineering subject again. I think we may be getting past it as a species, though.
The great news is that the engineered virus and the manifold social engineering efforts that it drives are only going to speed the demise of those who concocted the admittedly-spectacular operation.
I literally cannot wait to see the 2020 Edelman trust barometer results.
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Jeff Miller, Brooklyn, New York, May 15, 2020
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January 27, 2018 - The big tech backlash
Tech giants are drawing political fire over fake news and Russian meddling .
October 26, 2018 - The Global Tech Backlash Is Just Beginning
September 14, 2019 - Opinion | There Is No Tech Backlash - The New York Times
There Is No Tech Backlash
Worse , we think there is one.
It’s fun, and increasingly fashionable, to complain about technology. Our own devices distract us, others’ devices spy on us, social media companies poison public discourse, new wired objects violate our privacy, and all of this contributes to a general sense of runaway change careening beyond our control. No wonder there’s a tech backlash. But, really, is there ?
October 24, 2019 - U.K. - Big tech backlash is impossible to ignore
A reckoning for America’s technology giants seems to be getting closer.
December 24, 2019 - A slow-moving tech backlash among young people
December 29, 2019 - We’ve spent the decade letting our tech define us. It’s out of control.
February 27, 2020 - College backlash against facial recognition technology grows .
March 22, 2020 - U.K. - Coronavirus could kill the tech backlash
March 26, 2020 - How COVID-19 is changing public perception of big tech
The backlash against tech giants may not be over — but at the very least it’s on pause .
April 23, 2020 - Coronavirus pandemic blunts Americans’ Big Tech backlash
Sentiment has shifted as the virus has forced more Americans to rely on online services.
