The establishment hates technology. In fact almost BY DEFINITION the establishment hates technology. Despite all the crap about the “inevitable future” technological advances are a loose grenade. An establishment likes the things they have established their power IN to remain the same.
Hence the wild screams for more bureaucrats – a la Kyoto – to put a suffocating bureaucracy in place to control things. Establishment solutions are always bureaucratic solutions because bureaucracy is something those in power can PREDICT and CONTROL.
As soon as the internet began to get out of control, demands began that it be controlled. The now usual combination of the priests of Political Correctness and “Christianity” started up, demanding that the runaway internet be regulated to control racism and pornography.
Precisely because the future is so unpredictable, it is critical that the past be remembered accurately.
I remember that it took many, many years for Hollywood to recognize TV. Actors were terrified of losing their Holly wood credentials by going on the cheapside new medium.
The internet medium is moving much faster. In the last couple of year fewer and fewer people ask “What is a blog?” Now National Review and even our local newspaper have blog repeats regularly.
All this reminds me of another part of history, the horseless carriage. It was generally agreed to be that would forever be a toy for the rich. Buggy whip making was a safe investment.
In the terms WE are interested in, I have feeling that the media will be overwhelmed in the information area the way the buggy was.
The important revolutions in our society are the quiet ones, the ones nobody sees coming and that nobody notices when they have happened. That is why I get so crabby when someone obsesses on Hillary or some other big news development. That’s the crap Joe Everybody is dedicated to.
The hype stuff is exactly what the establishment WANTS us to obsess over.
#1 by Dave on 03/20/2008 - 11:16 am
We see this so clearly in the Visa MasterCard monopoly. The abuses are so egregious that it is inevitable that they will get big time blow back in terms of Congress coming down on them.
BUT these “reforms” will be aimed at preserving the monopoly, while creating a new bureaucracy to monitor and control future egregious abuses.
BUT the central abuse, the fact the monopoly exists in the first place, will not be addressed. NOT ONLY THAT, the legal underpinnings of the monopoly will be strengthened TO PREVENT an end run made possible by XML technology.
Congress and the Federal Bureaucracy to a large extent are enemies of America in economic matters. They are an occupying force in our land. Their aim is to prevent us from winning our economic freedom.
Of course they hate technology. Technology represents the weapons that will used to bring them down.
#2 by Simmons on 03/20/2008 - 11:25 am
They hate technology but love theology. By theology I mean the unquestioned assumptions that lie behind the rhetoric of the day. Even the AR crowd uses the “racist” word without definining it, but instead fling it around as if they caught the ball from the left.
The Mantra exposes this by actually getting the left to explain in detail what they mean instead of relying on the flippant authoritarianism that allows cult like institutions legitimacy. But shrieking is seemingly the human default mode and this plays into the game. I have surfed the likes of Stormfront and literally if it did not exist some Jews would have to invent it. Millions of posts dedicated to “muds and kikes”, none dedicated to the truly revolutionary inquiry. SF is useful, to Jews and maybe the Obama campaign, but not to white racial evolution.
SF does not need an opposing views thread it needs a Mantra thread. On this thread antis of all stripes will have an invitation to explain in great detail why they want the genocide of the white race. They will be questioned of course, but never shrieked at. I mean if they really “believe” then they should have no problem in using reason and logic why the white race should be genocided. Invites to prominent anti-whites could be extended and real inquiry can be conducted.
Now back to reality, 99.9999% of humanity cannot function beyond slogans. At AR my posts are ignored when I ask them that perhaps they should go ask these antis what they really think. Instead we get IQ studies and yet more wisdom of the obvious. Now the respectable “right” is measuring on how to break the news to its cult that “whiteness” is to be loathed since it has finally received the “truth” from mommy prof. So in respect to reality, perhaps Bob you could make your friend Don useful, have him donate 500 clams to Obama. Reason, the only candidate who will address the importance of race.
#3 by AFKAN on 03/21/2008 - 5:30 pm
Dave’s point s stronger than many might realize.
Currency is, first and foremost, a matter of faith, and secondly, it has become purely digital.
While alternative to the VISA/MC cartel are developing in digital space – such as https://www.revolutionmoneyexchange.com/ – and we are seeing the use of cell phones as credit card/ATMS in advanced countries such as Singapore, we are seeing something qualitatively different from this:
Historically, currency was the material aspect of money, which was defined in terms of greater and greater abstractions – the various M’s, for example.
Currency was also exclusively tied to the nation/state that created it.
Now, however, currencies are fungible, and vast – and I mean VAST – offshore “dark pools” pretty much ignroe the power of any nation, shifting effortlessly into whatever form they need to accomplish their purposes at the moment. This is REAL Money, so vast and anonymous that it has created its own stock exchange networks, over and well above the networks we use.
So, money has acquired new properties based on the information it controls, at the high end – the dark pools – and the low end – digital currency paid with cell phones.
We still have archaic regulatory regimes, and the power of Financial XML will shape the asset management and valuations systems of the future, one way or another.
The demands of the digital age call for it.
Oh, and gold?
That’s pretty cool stuff, too.
It is only, at best, a confiscatable store of wealth.
It is NOT “wealth,” which will become, increasingly, a digital in its applications.
#4 by AFKAN on 03/21/2008 - 5:45 pm
Simmons made a strong point, too, particularly so in this, the Age of Wordism.
Simmons wrote, in part:
“Theology” is a wonderful phrase to identify and define the “unquestioned assumptions that lie behind the rhetoric of the day.”
Ironically, the persons who have done that best are Obama, and Ferraro.
Read the Obama speech, and see how he makes it explicitly clear that White America still owes oh, so much to the Faithful Colored Companions.
Now, read Ferraro, who has only hardened her stance that she is being attacked because she is – watch for The Word, Children – “WHITE.”
There are two profound ironies in this situation:
One, if McCain proposed to abolish Affirmative Action, and ALL Racial set-asides, he would see the kind of turn out that McGovern created for Nixon.
Two, McCain, Clinton and Obama ALL support making the thirty million illegals in America – and, by extension, their families – Americans.
In one move, the Fiathful Colored Companions will have been neutralized as a political force forever…
And that is for openers…
All White people owe Obama a debt of gratitude.
He has forced to the surface, where they can no longer avoid it, the fact that America can do just fine without the Black people, and might just have an opportunity to do just that.
I wonder if we have entered into the de facto Age of the Permanent Political Aristocracy…
I think McCain is simply a useful figurehead for the Bush Family, and they have pretty much adopted the Clintons – especially Bill – as One of Them.
I can see McCain telling Hillary – through the proper intermediaries, of course – that appropriate positions could be found for Bill, and her, in the McCain Administration.
I suspect only a political genius of the first magnitude could have played the Race Card this way; using Ferraro was damn near Rovian, particularly the way she uses the word “WHITE” to identify her position as a victim…
#5 by shari on 03/21/2008 - 6:43 pm
What is XML technology?
#6 by BoardAd on 03/21/2008 - 7:27 pm
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose specification for creating custom markup languages. It is classified as an extensible language because it allows its users to define their own elements. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured data across different information systems, particularly via the Internet, and it is used both to encode documents and to serialize data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML
#7 by shari on 03/22/2008 - 12:19 pm
Thanks, I think I see just vaguely. It’s the next in programing!