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*chuckle* Ah, my oh so liberal friend… bullshit. 

Technology encompasses a very great deal more than just Boolean electronics.  Pollution was understood (not admitted to formally of course but well understood) before FM radio became common much less the digital realms.  The meteorologists were worried about their statistics in the sixties, they just weren’t saying much, the line hadn’t wiggled that much.  I’d say Star Trek should get credit for blowing the whistle on global warming, it was Star Trek introduced the term “planetology” into the vocabulary and with the term the first genuine scientists to adopt that mode of thought.

As for informing the people?  Were it not for the scare mongering propaganda of the original eco-idiot Ralph Nader (circa 1970) we’d have migrated from reciprocating internal combustion engines for mobile power over to external combustion light oil turbine-electric the first time the Arabs shut off the oil to Japan (circa 1974)… (the US doesn’t really use that much of their oil but when they quit pumping we have to share our share with our ally, never forget that the US was a founding member of OPEC!)… net result being that the needed R&D for such systems (immensely more efficient than reciprocating!) would be forty years proven now when robotic buoys riding the currents of the South Pacific and harvesting hydrogen off of sunlight are a viable possibility.  Hydrogen combustion, net output water vapor and heat, 0 nada zip by way of greenhouse gases and power a plenty.  No gasoline, no diesel, just good old clean steam  refurbished to go again with it’s new sidekick regenerative braking.

But sadly Nader’s meme was that any prime source of motive power turning over 6000 rpm cannot be made anything but lethally dangerous and uncontrollable, the oil barons smiled and said “thank you!” and the corporate socio-drone segment just kept on pumping out low rpm low thermal efficiency IC engines to stay on the good side of grandpa’s ghost.  Yes, the people were informed.  Just to ignorant to understand and never to be educated.  And amazingly they scared that particular chance to seriously mitigate pollution and the associated global warming to death without the aid of the internet!  Just imagine what Nadar’s descendents are doing now!

It’s not the technology, it’s the politics and politics is not a matter of rational knowledge applied to a real world problem, politics is the very low art of manipulating the insecurities and ego of the ignorant.  The internet is a magnificent technology in that cause.  There’s two ways to lie to people… the first being of course tell them an untruth and deny access to any information that might contradict the untruth, censoring and stifling the flow of all information in the process.  It holds for a while, but the truth will always get out.  That’s the old school way. 

But the better way is to exploit the most basic tenants of the human critter and tell the people so many unrelated truths that you overrun the knowledge base of the majority leaving them to pick up and focus on a truth that doesn’t do a damn thing, has no potential to do anything, about the issue you’re wanting to keep concealed!  Democracy, remember?  If 95% of the people are valiantly engaged and spending their resources and emotional strength on emotionally motivated social issues unrelated to the pragmatic issues of survival?  No one can muster a majority to address any real problem, those who would need to care have already spent their ration of give-a-damn on something else!  The internet is a truly awesome technology for doing that.

Net result of what the internet has enabled into the modern world is that the whole flippin’ bunch of idiots are standing around like a spoiled teenager in a trashed out bedroom whining they just don’t know where to begin the cleaning!  I’ll offer the presidential campaign of one Donald Trump into evidence in support of the above.

As for the reptilian voyeur spy vs. spy folks trying to spy on everyone?  They hope, they so desperately hope (as do I!!!) that they can pull off the meme that the only way to organize some violent form of social suicide is by way of electronic communication!  It’s the only way they have half a chance of intercepting that all to real possibility in time to prevent some minor fragment of a percentage (and no, it wouldn’t take that many, not if they know their ass from a hole in the ground about the technologies that actually support modern society, and the internet is waaaay low on that list… one-one hundredth of a percent would be plenty of manpower) from plunging what’s left of society into cannibalistic anarchy, they whose socially implanted omniphobia (inflicted on them more by the digital info/emo-glut than anything else!) has imparted a suicidal resolve leading to the decision  that some action to remove the source of the fear is better than no action in that cause!  Personal freedom and all that the Constitution of the United States of America stands for becomes expendable compared to that horrific possibility.  I offer the presidential campaign of one Hillary Clinton in support of the above.

(Fly it HOT Bernie, fly it hot… it’s the same damn beast no matter the paint job, Luke Skywalker showed you where to hit it… all us redneck hippies will do our best to keep Darth Romney’s Tie fighters off your ass…)

So yea at this point in my life, with only a few years of life left to me,  for fifty cents and good saddle horse I might just decide to fade back onto the land to pray for the souls of the dead and the fate of the survivors and mourn what humanity might have been rather than sit sadistic smug in front of this computer to watch the death agony of  what this age of the sun called civilization.