The Generations of Internet-brain Nonsense Parroting Zombies

The Internet and The Age of The Living Dead

THE HALL OF MIRRORS BEING CREATED BY LIMBIC COLONIALISM

- By Professor Gilbert Morris

Nassau, N.P., The Bahamas

What I’m discovering teaching students is the internet relationship narrative is turning everyone into the same person.

Henry Kissinger, believe it or not, argued that the internet is forging a “mono-culture” of no culture.

He is right: in the history of humankind, the most resilient force has been status-making.  Lena Horne or Diana Ross, Sidney Poitier or Denzel…all of them had to study, learn manners, learn how to write, learn how to give interviews, know world history.  Lena Horne never missed a performance date for 50 years: yet an 17 year old girl not old enough to have accomplishments has 25,000 followers.  (Social media was designed to trap females aged 13 to 27 as the most attractive demographic of humans).

Lena Horne and Diana Ross never had the attention of 25,000 people.  And worse, the 17 year deludes herself that those 25,000 are her fans.  (My followers, she addresses them).  Until the next 90 days when 1 million new 17 years olds enter the space and her followers fall to 10,000 and she ends up in my office depressed and resentful, hooked on dopamine driven approval.

Everyone simply now acts like a celebratory…extending what Andy Warhol called their “15 minutes of fame”…but it’s mere cotton candy.  70% of responses you get from social media are BOTS meant to keep you online to boost advertising revenues and this hall of mirrors delusion will persist and nothing now rests on accomplishment competence or accountability! 

The ideas and attitudes you think you own, are what’s shown to you on social media, representing less than 1% of actual life and 99% of that is fake…generating a perceptual cul-d-sac!

This is the dawn of “radical narrative coherence”.  It’s all based on stereotypes and treats humans by formula; so everyone from the cynical to the clueless finds a register in social media that deludes them into their own genius! 

Worse, everyone thinks it’s their own idea…even though all of them use the same phrases and words and all suffer the same routines of failure.

What is happening is a hive mind geared towards one standard of attractiveness used towards getting money.

That’s the game!

Decency, personality, integrity, reliability…none of that matters.  Because the internet narrative have people claiming the lack of these things as “authenticity” (keeping it 100).

Like all the internet boosts - the love yourself cult, the prize cult, the I’m my best friend cult:

It’s all bogus!

Humans are social: learns how to relate to people is how one discovers preferences and routines of the self which we confuse with a fixed self that can be the subject of its own affection; which is total galloping nonsense!

Most people now have no use for a brain.  Even the “soft life” nut cases think they are living well and they themselves are merely enslaved to a fantasy.

By this dopamine lust, the young people of the immediate future will be illiterate, reinforced in their ignorance, obsessed with whatever “facts” are promoted by social media, reasoning by bias alone, lonely, lacking social skills, unable to analysis distinctions, comparisons and contrasting, causes and correlations or corollaries, lacking a grasp of bounded rationalities and spasmodically emotional…with a mass death of brain function…so an pandemic of neuroatrophy: the opposite of brain development and growth through neuro-plasticity.

We’ll have in 3-5 years two generations of internet-brain nonsense parroting zombies!

Aldous Huxley predicted this in his work “Brave New World” and The Bahamas with its chronic habit of copycatting and following fashion then talking as if its original we are witnessing an exploration of these plastic personalities using the exact terms most frequent on the internet in another - but final and permenant - rinsing out of the last remnants of our grand parent’s values!

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Now is the time to build a digital lifeline – before the next disaster hits

Secure and resilient internet infrastructure is a fundamental necessity

The world needs a digital lifeline

By RICCARDO PULITI

This piece was originally published on Project Syndicate on July 19, 2022.

In periods of crisis, digital technologies provide a lifeline that keeps people, communities, and businesses functioning.  From the COVID-19 pandemic to violent conflicts and natural disasters, being connected has allowed us to continue working, learning, and communicating.

How policymakers have responded to these emergencies has played a large part. In particular, as a new paper by the World Bank Group’s Development Committee shows, more agile regulation has accelerated digitalization and unleashed innovation.  In today’s global context of several overlapping crises, this needs to become the norm.  Secure and resilient internet infrastructure is a fundamental necessity.

During the pandemic, as more and more of our lives went online, internet usage spiked worldwide. In 2020, 800 million people went online for the first time, and 58 low- and middle-income countries used digital payments to deliver COVID-19 relief. 

To manage that surge, governments and regulators in more than 80 countries moved quickly to change rules, including those governing the allocation of radio spectrum – the electromagnetic waves used for wireless communications.  In Ghana, regulators assigned temporary radio spectrum to networks in high demand, and all mobile-service providers were granted permission to expand coverage.  This resulted in better-quality service for more than 30 million mobile subscribers, letting them “go” to work, learn online, and access essential services.

Agile regulations have also helped digital technologies offer critical support to people in fragile and conflict situations.  In Ukraine, the presence of a strong internet connection through satellite links, even while terrestrial infrastructure is under attack, has enabled the government to communicate with its citizens in real time.  At the beginning of the war, shelling and cyberattacks were predicted to take down the internet, but innovations such as the satellite hookups have kept the country online.  Here, too, the Ukrainian government moved quickly to speed up permissions and adapt rules.

But a digital lifeline is effective only if it is safeguarded from cyberattack, something that Ukraine knows well.  For many years, the country has been a testing ground for strikes on infrastructure.  Hackers carried out waves of attacks that hit Ukraine’s distribution centers, call centers, and power grid.

And it’s not just Ukraine.  All countries are vulnerable to these incursions.  The United States fell victim to cyberattacks last year that took down its largest fuel pipeline, leaving many Americans in long lines to fill their gas tanks.  And in Africa, Kenyan internet users endured more than 14 million malware incidents in 2020.

Like cyberattacks, nature can cause damage to communications infrastructure that demands an agile reaction.  A volcanic eruption in January this year sent the island nation of Tonga into digital darkness.  The eruption cut Tonga’s single undersea telecom cable and threw the country into 38 days of isolation from the internet and much of the outside world.  This crisis has prompted discussions about how to strengthen the network and emergency-response systems, so Tongans are not at risk of digital darkness again.

To mitigate such vulnerabilities, unleashing digitalization needs to be a high priority even in periods of relative calm.  Potentially transformative yet fast-evolving technologies require policymakers to promote financing, regulations, and institutions that make it easier to test out new ideas in real life.  Some countries are starting to make progress.  Kazakhstan is using agile regulation to digitalize, decentralize, and decarbonize its vitally important energy operations.

Unlocking the potential of digitalization for the masses through well-targeted regulation can also help close the digital divide and improve welfare.  

Recent research has shown that the availability of cheaper internet access increases employment among low-income households.

Countries such as Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Malaysia provide low-cost plans for poorer users.  

Digital access is essential for people all over the world, especially residents of under-connected rural areas, the poor, women, and the displaced.  In Nigeria and Tanzania, poverty rates fell by seven percentage points in areas with internet connections.

With the world facing multiple emergencies, policymakers need to mobilize digital connectivity to improve the daily welfare of the most vulnerable populations.  Right now, innovation is moving so fast that many officials, especially in developing countries, are finding it hard to keep up and ensure that the benefits of digitalization reach the people who need them most.

But we should not need a crisis to accelerate the transformation.  Now is the time to build a digital lifeline – before the next disaster hits.

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Read more about the World Bank’s work on digital development and the digital lifeline that proved crucial in the pandemic in this recent paper on digitalization and development.

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