Compound eyes, common with insects and crustaceans, are made up of thousands of individual visual receptors, called ommatidia. Each ommatidium is a fully functioning eye in itself. The insect’s “eye” is thousands of ommatidium that together create a broad field of vision. Every ommatidium has its own nerve fiber connecting to the optic nerve, which relays information to the brain. The brain then processes these inputs to create a three-dimensional understanding the surrounding space.
The compound eye is a good way to imagine how the surveillance state will keep tabs on the subjects in the near future. Unlike the dystopian future imagined by science fiction, it will not be one eye focusing on one heretic, following him around as he goes about his business. Instead it will be tens of millions of eyes obtaining various bits of information, sending it back to the data-centers run by Big Tech. That information will be assembled into the broad mosaic that is daily life.
For example, rather than use informants and undercover operatives to flesh out conspiracies against the state, the surveillance state will use community detection to model the network of heretics. Since everyone is hooked into the grid in some fashion and everyone addresses nodes of the grid on a regular basis, keeping track of someone is now something that can be done from a cubicle. There is no need to actually follow someone around as they go about their life.
For example, everyone has a mobile phone. At every point, the phone is tracking its location, which means it is tracking your location. It also knows the time and day when you go into various businesses. Most people use cards to pay miscellaneous items, so just that information would tell the curious a lot about you. Combine that information with the same information from other phones that come into close proximity with your phone and figuring out the community structure is simple.
Of course, the mobile phone is not the only input device. Over Christmas, millions of Americans were encouraged to install surveillance devices in their homes by friends and family. Maybe it was an Alexa listening device from Amazon or a Nest Doorbell surveillance device from Google. All of these gadgets are collecting data on your life inside and around your home. It is then fed to the same data-centers that have all of your movements and associations collected from your phone.
That’s an enormous amount information about the lives of the subjects, but that’s just the start of what they are collecting. Everything about property and property ownership is now kept in those same systems. Tax and earnings information are now shared with the new technological overlords. We know this because Raj Chetty told us so. He gained access to everyone’s tax information from the IRS. Since Big Tech provides the infrastructure to all government operations, they have their data too.
It turns out that the future will not be one big eye searching about for a heretic on which to focus or even thousands of such eyes. Instead, it will be tens of millions of eyes, collecting data, filtering it through a specific lens, and passing it onto massive data-centers controlled by Big Tech. It is there where the focus will narrow, looking for patterns, modeling communities and searching for any anomalies that could indicate unacceptable behavior. Big Brother will be an Indian in a cubicle.
The human eye is attached to muscles that allow it to move, expanding the field of vision and narrow in on specific items of interest. The compound eye is fixed and therefore cannot focus on a single item. It also results in nearsightedness. It is, however, exceptional at detecting motion. The mosaic of infinitesimally small images lets the insect notice the smallest movement around it. This is why flies, for example, are so good at anticipating your effort to swat them.
Big Tech’s compound eye will be similar. It will be adept at tracking movement and capturing data about the environment, but it will not be very good at focusing in on one individual or even a group of individuals. That’s where the brain takes over to interpret the data, looking for the sorts of movement that could present danger. As with insects, the compound eye has evolved for defensive purpose. Hunters need focus, prey need a broad field of vision and pattern matching.
We are seeing the precursors of what will be special teams of agents charged with focusing in on potential trouble. Those “Trust & Safety” squads on social media are the early attempts at this. Algos were created to look for patterns and movement that would then warrant further review. The “focus teams” then look more carefully at individuals inside an identified community. This is how a heretic gets banned from Twitter despite not using the system very much. He was part of an identified community.
In the future, these “Trust & Safety” teams will be dispatched into the real world to infiltrate suspected communities, disrupt social bonding within dissident communities that are forming up and, of course, neutralize genuine threats. That last part is always what the dystopians focus on, but that will be an exceedingly rare occurrence as we move into the custodial state. Technological advance will also bring with it new ways to influence behavior in a myriad of small ways.
Alongside those millions of eyes collecting data will be other nodes that nudge people in the right direction through the power of suggestion, social proof and social bonding. The Chinese social credit system is a crude example of what is to come. A much more subtle version will rely on social influencers, who will be rewarded for encouraging positive behaviors. Social proof and fear of ostracism will confirm the tendency to accept what comes from prominent influencers.
This is already happening in a crude way on social media platforms. They promote those with the right opinions and demote those with the wrong opinions. Since active users seek an audience, inevitably they act in such a way that gets them promoted by the algos running these sites. It is why review sites have abandoned real user reviews in favor of robots. It is a lot easier to push a movie on a movie review site if the “viewer reviews” are actually robots run by the site.
That’s the future that awaits us in the custodial state. It is living under the watchful compound eye that is feeding all of our data into massive data-centers controlled by private companies. Since information is the ultimate currency and controlling the currency makes you sovereign, the official state will simply become another node on the network run by the Big Tech. There will be no recourse. Any effort to revolt will be detected by the compound eye before it gets started.
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The Chinese have a famous saying: “The Emperor is far away.” Meaning that locals could pretty much do what they wanted most of their life, according to their own customs and traditions. The electronic panopticon nightmare we are currently installing is the scariest thing I’ve ever even thought about. The Stasi couldn’t dream of such tools. These days, the Emperor is literally monitoring your very heart beat (Apple watch). We had a presentation at work about reduced ins. rates and swag if we allowed such “monitoring.” Perhaps going Amish is really the only sane thing left to do. They are… Read more »
One other thing, the title “The Compound Eye” is a bit off I think. I’d call it instead “The Unlimited File Drawer”. They simply cannot process the amount of data they are collecting on us. The real danger is when you get on their radar screen and they instead backtrack and see what you’ve been up to. Ever wonder how they know exactly what websites the synagogue stabber was looking at?? Perhaps it was simple browser history from a confiscated laptop. But one could get same info if IP address was not masked. Even with VPNs, are they ever really… Read more »
Yes, the technological revolution centered around internet and cell phone addictions is a Brave New World paradigm unlike anything our species has ever experienced in the past. And these new artificial environments are changing the species fundamentally, and this change is neither trivial nor slow. The end-state is insect-like drone behaviors in which only passivity and compliance is rewarded. The antidote is also a new paradigm that leverages off of modern technology. Be smart, be strong.
All of this speculation about the “how” of the surveillance state is simply too tedious. So they’ve got all the data: Maus has written racist badthink; Maus buys a lot of bourbon; Maus has guns. The end users can’t fix the potholes and manage the homeless. Their incompetence and policy fetishes mean trannies can use any bathroom they want; but shit and rats in the street are leading to outbreaks of typhus. This won’t lead to a culture of fear, but a culture of loathing. Big Brother will demand the Two Minutes of Hate for cis hetero white men; and… Read more »
I’m with you on that, Maus. American identity for all its downside comes with a sizeable fraction of people who instinctively rebel against this kind of thing. Not everyone is content with amusing themselves to death or going along to get along. The West seems to attract a lot of those folks.
The tricky part is going to be getting those people to work together but if we turn that corner we’re going to have a hardcore group of Whites with the Covington Smirk that says “is that all you’ve got?”
The compound eye picks up everything in its wide field of vision, but only to a certain distance (the predator eye can see a long way in a particular vector, but with a narrow field of vision). Try to figure out what that distance is, and then array your life and your interactions with the borg to go in and out of the limits of that compound eye’s distance of vision.
Operating wholly within the limits of their vision is foolish, but so is creating an informational black hole where you are supposed to be.
Your forecast assumes that the technological infrastructure is sustainable. As companies increasingly hire and promote based on race, sex, and mental illness rather than ability, it’s a real possibility that the infrastructure will collapse. You can already see the beginnings of it in a lot of tech companies.
No prob: the West will just buy ready made systems from the Chinese. They’re going to clean our clock this century; the amount of raw talent and untapped potential is staggering. I’ve no doubt that plenty of western governments would be more than happy to buy anything from anyone to keep their elites in control.
No one hates the people of the West more than their elites.
I agree. While there are very smart people in the tech world, asking the hoi-polloi to operate security tech is another matter. There will be incompetence, bunglings, and turf battles/data hording which will thwart the security state. I have faith that there enough dumbasses and enough ethical people to offset the grand designs of tech surveillance.
See Targeted Individuals (start with Targeted Justice and read their links). See Fusion Centers, and organized gang stalking (stasi tactics). Precrime is happening. Watch this guy’s presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ6d_Q0sT8c He’s a black guy who admits he was trouble and what’s happening now. Before you applaud remember everyone is the enemy. Remember they ARE admittedly using dew weapons in parks and airports (sound). Google it. It’s very scary, but be brave and check it out. This article is a start but perhaps zman can do it more justice. Other ‘issues’ will pale in importance. Also, you will be prepared if weird things… Read more »
A cubicle is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
The agents of the West’s ruling class cannot pass RedPill on Women tests.
I’m old-school secessionist on this point. Going gray doesn’t mean going dark, but it does mean being exceptionally careful on what you order with a card, say on your cellphone, and have delivered to your home address. E.g. You definitely want to read “Resistance to Tyranny” but you may not want to order it on Amazon. You may want to buy a 6.8 upper for your AR but you may not want it shipped to your home address. You need a cellphone but there are times when you pull the SIM card. And of course Alexa and the plethora of… Read more »
If you have been banned from a website’s comments section, you’ve already experienced our brave new world. Do not ever go back to one of those websites to read their articles again. They can’t be trusted.
LOL, I still lurk at ace of spades now and then, but that’s pretty much it. start asking questions about our greatest ally, that’s a big no no…
36 years ago a high-school dropout wrote books about all this. William Gibson invented the metaphor of cyberspace in “Burning Chrome” (1982) and emerged from obscurity in 1984 with the publication of his debut novel Neuromancer. Neuromancer, which won three major science-fiction awards (Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick), established Gibson’s reputation. Its protagonist is a 22nd-century data thief who fights against the domination of a corporate-controlled society by breaking through the global computer network’s cyberspace matrix. Set in the future, the novel follows Henry Case, a washed-up computer hacker who is hired for one last job, which brings him… Read more »
Pretty stark analysis of the near future. I’d like to say you are being too gloomy but I can’t.
I can only think of a few things that might offer hope.
The techno compound eye requires infrastructure to operate and that means vulnerability.
Information Overseers are human and can be gotten to.
Finally, our betters, that seek to manage us, seem to have no qualms or restraint when it comes to destroying and unpersoning dissenters. Men unmoored and ruined in great numbers have nothing left to lose.
This is an oldie but a goodie addressing this issue. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/02/technology/kafkaesque-big-brother-finding-the-right-literary-metaphor-for.html
See also, Brazil.
An almost constantly fallible omniscience is in many ways worse.
It’s nothing new under the sun. Just using technology to build.
Build what? Community, society, if you’re accepted. A prison if rejected.
Thing is, can it be done if you remove the human element? Maybe if you’re not dealing with humans.
A community of bots talking, snitching, doing business—LARPing, in other words. Sounds familiar. Sounds insane, too. So are insane people competent enough to pull it off? I doubt it. This thing seems destined to founder on the shoals of reality IMO.
The difference is that the government is too incompetent and inefficient to track us very well. Google, Facebook, and the rest will be the ones doing the tracking – with devices we bought from them. The future is strange.
The future keeps proving that the masses rise to the level of stupidity that their masters expect of them.
The solution is simple: stop doing that.
Asssuming you’re correct, and I think you are, the dissident strategy should include the generation of as many false positives as possible, among individuals and communities who have a random distribution of connection or lack of connection to dissidence. The chans, as I understand them, already grasp this in attempts to anathematize things like the rainbow flag and the OK sign. In a world where all things are omens, no oracle can function.
OK sign is the GOAT. Can’t believe it still works. They scrambled some deep programming with that one!
Max,
You nailed it. Going completely dark, save for a few transactions associated with every day life, will be a giant red flag. It is best to plant thousands of random data points.
Yes, and keep in mind this surveillance back-end will be engineered by the finest, cheapest tech engineers the subcontinent can supply.
Max: Absolutely.
My VPN, for example; shows me being in Germany at this very moment. While in my previous post I was in Brazil. I travel very fast apparently.
DON’T bring your phone everywhere – particularly if you are meeting like-minded friends. Park a few blocks away and walk to them, or ride a bike. Pay cash if you meet them for food or drinks…
Cashless society is the next big thing. One must avoid it at all levels. Unfortunately, the general awareness is not there. Perhaps never will be there. Whenever I leave the house, it almost always involves a cash transaction. Use credit or debit and the computer records date, time, amount, location and product. Not much more is needed to know everything there is about an individual.
Comp, from what I’ve seen of Russia, the cashless society is not going to fly here. Maybe it’s a hangover from the bad old days but at least in St. Petersburg, cash is still preferred to cards. In Scandinavia I barely thought about have kroner on me, used my cards for everything. Here, in Russia’s NYC, a lot of places may take cards but there’s a definite wink-nudge to it, and some are unapologetically cash-only. The hood who drove my cab from Pulkovo to downtown was definitely cash-only, in the “or you ride in the trunk” sense. The only times… Read more »
Yes. I’m a cash guy. Plus it has the added benefit of making it easier to keep a budget and save.
I would hope we are underneath like the Germans—cash lovers. But then, there are their neighbors to the North, Sweden—95% cashless. Sigh. Anyway, l see the younger set using cards for $2 transactions. EBT’s used in Dollar Stores. CC in grocery stores. Are they the future? Because if they are, then grey folk with no such transactions become more noticeable by default. There once was a 500 euro note, now thanks to extreme US pressure, the top denomination is 100 euro’s—ostensibly to fight money laundering by drug cartels. India took it’s largest bills out of circulation a year or two… Read more »
A big hassle here in Russia is big-ass banknotes from the ATM’s. Try breaking a 5000 ruble note (basically a hundy) – anywhere. The look you get – like the Cossacks in the Pale, oy vey.
Just get smaller notes, you say? $10 ATM fees. At bank machines (not all, FWIW).
I’ve not been thinking on this long but if a group were to each find someone to “buy” cash cards for them, we could then meet and share the cards in a way that ensures I leave the meeting with the same number of cards that are none of the ones I walked in with.
I’m certainly guilty of some bad habits with tech and credit cards but as others have mentioned, it’s time to start with my own false flags, leaving the phone at home, etc…
Or bring 3 phones with different IP’s everywhere.
Yeah they can keep track of us but they still can’t build roads or buildings or install plumbing. The practical and the spectacular are going to collide at some point. We’re running out of intellectual capital to keep the water on and the robots are not up to snuff
The virtual is no replacement for the real. Don’t forget that the DMV is running this show. The real trick is to never come under suspicion in the first place. Big Brother is much more effective after the fact. Murderers get caught because they accidentally leave something at the scene which has a lot number on it and you are seen on camera the day that lot was sitting the local walmart buying that very item. The dystopian future will have to survive the bursting of the money bubble. Things that are profitable today might not be profitable with historic… Read more »
Vdare published an article this morning about the need to get rid of affirmative action. It’s getting critical.
Originally, the idea behind affirmative action was to ban discrimination based on race, creed, color or national origin, and later sex, and encourage members of “disadvantaged” groups to apply for a job. It very quickly led to quotas and lowering standards, whether for the targeted groups only or every applicant. That’s what inevitably happens.
Exactly, Whit – that’s the margin I’m talking about occupying. We’re playing for time in an arms race that’s both demographic and intellectual and our enemies are hearing the footsteps of catabolic collapse louder than we hear the march of Big Brown. And yes, those things are related.
Maybe if whites weren’t so in love with tech they’d have more kids. Like the Amish. And then the demographics would fix themselves. We’ve become too intellectual, in other words.
As far as the intellectual side, continuing to live in temperate climates will keep us in shape, as long as we get outside once in a while. All that strategic thinking about a changing environment, etc. Plant a garden, save seeds, commit to growing a lot of food well. It’s amazing how rigorous it is.
Painter, I’m a “blood and soil” guy to a great extent myself – tech has its limits, but going Trad-Luddite on tech is taking it too far. We shouldn’t throw away areas of advantage and expertise if we can help it. There are a lot of factors that go into demographic lassitude, not just tech, and the Amish have been experiencing a lot of youth flight just like the Euros have, especially in more trad Visegrad countries. We can keep our screens if we master them instead of letting them master us. What’s on them matters as much as whether… Read more »
And now that I’m thinking about it, I think the success of the Amish comes down to a couple of things: 1. Tightly-knit, even insular communities. Which they take a little too far (inbreeding), but not by much. Maybe allow for a few trusted outsiders to join. 2. A commitment to productivity and saving that produces remarkably self-reliant and resilient communities. 3. They are in the world but not of it. They aren’t trying to take anyone’s wealth or power, so nobody sees them as a threat. This makes for good will, and people generally leave them alone. And when… Read more »
Sure. I just use the Amish as an example because that’s what I know. Not for everybody, myself included, but they definitely have big families because of their lifestyle. The young are changing but I think they’re equipped to realize when they’re going off the edge. Plus the Amish are one of the most successful dissident groups out there. Probably a lot to learn from them. I think tech is an opiate. Has one specific use it’s really good at (labor saving) but if you become dependent it can kill you. So it’s best to only use it when you… Read more »
Exile, I agree that its not a rejection of tech but a mastery. I just think that mastery requires a level of rejection as well. Or at least heavy and constant skepticism. “I am using a tool of my enemies” is more or less how I see it. The gravity of tech in the hindbrain is a real issue. Cocaine is actually a pretty good stimulant. But how does one master the use of coke? Rationalization is a strong force too. Look at all t he people who say they dislike social media. Who ‘never’ or ‘rarely’ use it. But… Read more »
Exile, exactly. We need to heed and promote some corrections to this phenomena. For example, I read awhile back that one strong mother restricts cell phones in the home during gatherings, such as Thanksgiving. Everyone must place their phone into a basket upon entering her home. She then puts the basket into a closet. I assume she permits access at an appropriate time of her choosing. Seems extreme, but nothing is sadder than sitting at the Thanksgiving table with almost all the family staring down at their phones, rather than talking and catching up with family members. I’ve been there,… Read more »
Absolutely right Whitney. This abiding faith in technology is nuts.
” they can keep track of us but they still can’t build roads or buildings or install plumbing”
Most of our would-be overlords are from a culture that does not work with its hands. Law, finance/banking, academia, government, and Hollywood/Newsmedia are manipulation of SYMBOLS, not creation and maintenance of physical things.
For such people there is a tendency to assume that these things just happen, and therefore to underestimate the importance, difficulty, and complexity of the real, material, world. That goes double for the subset of paranoid, spiteful overlords who have existed for most of history in other people’s civilizations and infrastructure.
There is a scorn for blue-collar labor among the elite, ignoring the fact that blue-collar trades often pay quite well. I know two men who dropped out of high school, began fixing cars and became wealthy running their own businesses. My Greatest Generation mother once said that if a woman can type and a man fix cars, they’ll always find a job.
Labor keeps you honest, too. Less likely to believe utopian nonsense when you’re getting your hands dirty. In other words idle hands are the devil’s tools. The moral utility of labor gets overlooked.
Boeing discovered the downside of hiring foreign talent recently.
boeing stock price over the last decade is…staggering
There’s an old saying that you get what you pay for. Another reality is that temporary contract labor may not care about the long-term quality of their work. They’re only interested in the paycheck and employment information posted on their resume. At one time, companies liked long-time employees. That’s one reason why they provided pensions. A man who intends to work for a particular company long-term has a vested interest in both the quality of his work and the success of company. He makes friends and helps them. There’s loyalty to the manager. A long-time, permanent employee cares. These temporary… Read more »
Since Silicone Alley (if you’ve ever been to the Stanford Shopping Center you’ll know what I mean) started loading up on contract workers through employment firms the quality of the things coming out of there has deteriorated. Their solution to this in recent years has been to replace expensive local contract workers with less expensive replacements (Indians) in larger numbers. After all we’re all the same and thus all replaceable. More engineers and programmers at the same cost will get them across the finish line, or so they assumed. But this has only accelerated the deterioration. Now they don’t know… Read more »
Produce hauling, too- 80% of the fruits and veggies on your plate.
Friday night at the California border looks like a Diwali festival.
The two founders of Google are Jewish men (one born in the USSR), the CEO is an Indian man and the CFO is an English Jewish woman. Rootless cosmopolitans, indeed.
As silly as sounds, ever try to speak to one of these Indians? Some of them are unintelligible. End up needing to communicate via e-mail.
Not an original observation that modern-day American corporations typically have short-term thinking. I don’t think that they have thought the situation through.
“Indians have become so numerous in some companies that they now control who gets hired and promoted: them.”
Ain’t just Tech. Medicine is heading that way too.
They’ll only hire those they consider members of their own tribe, competent or not.
Normies don’t realize how tribal non-Whites are.
Isn’t diversity grand?
In the not too distant future, a white employee will sue an Indian run company for employment discrimination, represented by a Pakistani lawyer, before a Jewish judge in front of an Hispanic jury. Good luck with that.
I hear you, but Boeing is a better example of automation allowing for mediocrity. The plane in question is highly automated. The pilot literally starts the engine and after moving onto the runway presses an icon labeled “take off”. The automation system does the rest. 99.9999% percent of the time all goes well. When it doesn’t, a knowledgeable, experienced pilot is needed with immediate hands on correction. American pilots have reported correcting for such failure—obviously, or we’d be cleaning up debris all over the States. Sand people can not master the technology of flying manually to the same level. Hence… Read more »
From what I can tell, Boeing has been trying to introduce a reverse “dead man’s switch”, that will only allow the pilot to override the automated flight by repeated, consistent, specific actions. I think what they are trying to do is foil the “snack bar” pilot induced plane crashes, but they don’t want to talk about that. Because if you look at the plane crashes of the last decade or so, they are almost all either “snack bar” pilot suicides or ground-to-air missiles. The fly in the ointment is that, for foreign carriers that did not buy the optional extras,… Read more »
But does that completely account for the two crashes we have had, if I read you correctly? Perhaps I don’t know what a snack bar pilot is—a poorly trained pilot? One crash, I read, recorded the pilots frantically looking through an instruction manual for procedure to correct failure. There was an interview I saw with an American pilot who claimed to have encountered the same failure and corrected manually (hands on control of airplane) and he said such a failure was not unknown for this plane and had been encountered by other pilots he knew. In short, he stated one… Read more »
In the two crashes, there appear to be two significant contributing factors. One was that the sole or minimal exterior flight sensors were iced up or otherwise damaged. Little or no redundancy there meant that the flight was screwed up to begin with by the automated system. Domestic 737 Max planes get many more redundant sensors, so this kind of equipment failure is minimized. The second element is pilot training. The automated flight characteristics can be overridden, but only by repeated, specific actions, as the overrides only last for a few seconds unless they are precisely repeated. The pilots need… Read more »
Compsci, from the cry, “Allah snack bar!”.
That’s a double edged sword. Surveillance proves innocence too. Harken back to the last election: an intrepid lady reporter was trying to ask questions of Trump during a rally. It was awful!!! Trump’s goons interceded and brutally beat her! She was assaulted! She was raped!!! She was murdered!!!! The media locked shields and carried the narrative – and it went from the ridiculous to the sublime. “Yes, the woman was assaulted.” And nobody on Trump’s team did anything to help the lady? “No! We all saw it!!” And none of YOU did anything about it? “No! Trump’s goons wouldn’t let… Read more »
One should always record any encounter with law enforcement and should probably do that same anytime they interact with the State. A couple years ago, for some reason TSA wanted to look into my carry-on after it had gone through the scanner. I whipped out my phone and recorded the search (Recording the TSA process is always a good idea, particularly since they’re staffed mostly by diversity hires. Don’t let them tell you that you can’t, you absolutely can). I doubt it was anything other than routine, but it never hurts to let them know that they’re being watched too.
There is the idea out there that people will believe what they are told, despite what is shown on the video. Why someone would fall for that is unfathomable to me. But there are sheep, and then there are those who question everything. Blue pill versus red pill, I suppose.
I’m beginning to question everything—and I admit it freely. This is the “distrust” issue coming from our current multi-cultural experiment—as discussed by Z-man and others such as Ed Dutton—and helped along by advances in technology such as deep fakes.
I hate it. It is no way for honest men to live. Devolution. However, whole societies, e.g., China, seem to thrive on such in their business dealings. But it’s alien to me and my upbringing.
It’s true that some surveillance may work for us too, but what our state and tech lords can do is terrifying. It won’t be long before they decide to plant criminal activity on your computer/phone and then prosecute you. We can’t do that to them. We saw the initial salvo when that FBI lawyer in the coup cabal edited an email to change the meaning 180 degrees.
Another unplanned (I guess) consequence of the ubiquitous screen is the effect on the jury trial. How will jurors with castrated attention spans be able to fairly decide guilt or innocence in a lengthy or difficult trial?
DLS. Also, I believe there were “edits” of the 911 phone call from the Zimmerman incident to make him look like a racist. This was done by the news media, but one can imagine what would have happened if the government edited the one original digital copy. Deep fakes are now real and growing such that firms are working to keep up with detecting such fraud.
I think rural areas will be the opposite. Not enough economic activity to justify the maintaining of roads and electricity. Already rural hospitals have been shut down. Rural areas might end up the “forbidden zone” like some dystopian b movie.
I hope that some aspiring doctors see this as an opportunity to exploit a new market and figure out a way to navigate the encumbrances.
The cartelization of medicine has stripped the rural areas of any sort of healthcare. The independent doctor hanging up his shingle somewhere is not allowed to exist any more. This was probably not by design, but it is a side benefit to the powers-that-be that want to crush the red areas. The rural communities constantly see older people moving out and back to the suburbs, to get their dose of healthcare.
Health care that in many cases they may not even need. Older Americans place way too much confidence in doctors’ deciding they need a prescription.
All too true. But damn, if I hit the floor with a heart attack, an hour and half trip to the nearest ER is a decidedly sobering thought when considering moving out to the more rural and pleasant areas.
Double edged sword. The public finds out the police don’t actually genocide innocent blacks but on the other hand we get a check mark against us for visiting a gun range.
I don’t see an easy way to subvert this barring giving up all technology and driving a 74 El Camino. Enemy of the State I believe is the movie?
What is best path forward?
I am still searching for that?
I think the Z is correct.
The Trumpsters are watching their own demise by cheering on the Military Industrial complex and it’s boy toys being used against a more basic civilization.
Must admit when I saw an emerald late ‘60’s Camaro up on flatbed next to me at a stoplight It made me smile. But it also made me kinda sad for the relic; like so many things that reflect a dead culture. It also makes me think more seriously about the strategic aspects of rolling back modernity in my personal life. Which already lags behind most people I think. All this while sitting in my boring Toyota hybrid sedan that is so computerized I can’t even rev the 4-cyl engine if I wanted to. Anyhow, half the militarys budget (the… Read more »
Scanners, buy scanners. No license necessary, hard to track, learn your local frequencies and you can listen in to what is going on in your neck of the woods. Buy multiples, stash them around here and there, like you would other survival or prep gear. They may not be available much longer, for obvious reasons.
“What is best path forward? I am still searching for that?” What is your tolerance for inconvenience & discomfort? Once you know that metric you can easily find your own ‘path’ which will be different for every human being. Related, what is your tolerance for risk? You can use burner phones, pay cash for everything, setup fake emails, VPNs, hardened browsers, and use pre-paid debit cards when an electronic transaction is required and do ‘ok’ about being the gray man. If you want to -really- disappear your inconvenience & risk are going to start going up rapidly from this baseline.… Read more »
Yep Apex. Dopamine is their greatest weapon. 40% obesity is the physical manifestation. But thats the tip of the iceberg. The spiritual/psychological changes have been massive in an incredibly short period of time. We are, for all intents and purposes, a population of addicts. Already we have two generations that effectively cannot even fathom the abstract proposition of not having 24/7 live, personalized, mobile tech. So yeah, what is the level of discomfort that you can endure until the feedback loop can be migrated away from the brave new world? Based on what I see vis a vis the diet-exercise… Read more »
Apex, it’s one reason why my old ass went to live in the woods for weeks over the summer. Find the limits of what you need vs. what you just want or merely like to have. Clean the consumer-culture poison out of your system and unplug. I still managed to be online and on-grid when I wanted to be with minimal inconvenience, and worked a full schedule. Burner-phones and SIM cards vs. “plans” are the way to go. Use Google Voice or something similar for your normie-tier plugged-in-life calls where you need a stable consistent phone number. Use the SIM’s… Read more »
The smart people who figured this out long ago would have established a completely separate identity, SS number, residence, and all. One individual, two identities. Probably too hard to do now, with the matrix of information already on file.
AP: “ You can use burner phones, pay cash for everything, setup fake emails, VPNs, hardened browsers, and use pre-paid debit cards when an electronic transaction is required.” Yep, can do all that and more. In addition only use highly encrypted email and texting tools, use cheap burner laptops, post under various names, etc., and stay off all social media. The phone is the toughest for sure. The inconvenience and wasted time is a big negative but only do the extreme stuff for the most dangerous things. I don’t care if the Eye of Sauron knows what kind of trash… Read more »
Son, I’ve got the email thing taken care of. But how do I text encryptedly?
I’m not going to surrender b/c Magic Custodial Jews just yet. The challenges Z mentions are all good reasons why maintaining a foot in the Hive is part of our strategy for successful separatist communities. Big Other needs Whitey to manage Yuti, Juglas, Shaniqua & Lupe and to do the Work Non-Americans Can’t Do. There’s no Voight-Kampf test to separate the sheep bugmen from the goat sh*tlords. We can get Our Guys inside. It takes relatively few of these guys to feed us useful intel and toss a few wrenches in when they can. And if Big Nanny ever goes… Read more »
Excellent summation of our position and how we should deal with it. First this: ” We have to first plan to survive, then to reproduce and recruit, then to be self-sustaining and separate. Once we have that down, we can worry about “fighting.” We have already begun, it needs to grow. Second this: “And if Big Nanny ever goes full and explicit No Whites Allowed, we can thank her for vastly expanding our recruiting base.” They are already doing us this favor and accelerating things. Third this: ” If militias in Iraq and Afghanistan can withstand the full fury of… Read more »
YY – Exactly. The demographic clock is ticking on the elites. Ashkepath outmarriage is taking a brutal toll and their fertile feral faction can’t swing the same lumber on IQ and time-preference. The goyisch Belmonters of Charles’ Murray’s “Coming Apart” are also “Losing Ground” as more of their Beckys buy into or fall prey to Wokeness, race-mixing and heinous social habits that their parents only wanted for “those other White kids” to live with. The Palis have managed to stick in the throats of the Chosen for a lot of years and may yet live to see Israel fall. The… Read more »
To me, we’re in a very long guerrilla war. Be everywhere, but nowhere. Hit them in their vulnerable spots, let them massively over react and disappear. Get them to lose the support of the larger population as they crack down trying to find and subdue us.
Bleed them dry. Make it too costly to stay. Most of all, let them know that the war will never end. This is our home. We’ll fight today, tomorrow, next week, next year, next decade, next century. Give them no hope of permanent victory, just never-ending, expensive war.
I would like to submit my application for employment to the Trust and Safety squad. Do they have any openings in the doxing department?
There is recourse. It’s just not the recourse that we want to employ. Muslims in Europe proves the vulnerability of Big Tech/Custodial State (BTCS). BTCS relies on a population that 1) accepts its authority; 2) rejects violence, particularly disorganized, on-the-street violence; and 3) refuses to protect its own. If any community rejects these principles, BTCS loses most of its punch. Muslims make the cost of enforcing BTCS’s rule too high. Ironically, they achieve this via low-tech, low-IQ means. Muslims are willing to beat people up and go to jail to stop BTCS rule. Cut a Muslim off from using the… Read more »
True for the most part, but the selective prosecution is a huge state advantage. Witness those two Proud Boys who recently got four year sentences for what amounted to a simple street fight with antifa. Had they been brown, they wouldn’t have been charged at all.
True. But, again, one of the reasons – though certainly not the only reason – that browns and, particularly, Muslims aren’t charged or are changed with very low-level crimes is because TPTB are concerned with push back from those communities.
However, frankly, we’re not even close to having a community as intact as Muslims in Europe. I was just trying to show that BTCS is vulnerable to push back (and not necessarily violent push back) from unified communities.
End of paragraph 9: “Hunters need focus, predators need a broad field of vision and pattern matching.” It makes more sense if ‘predators’ is ‘prey’. The high school I went to was about 10% south Asian spanning the gambit from bengalis to Pashtuns and some Persians. There are some cool ones but as a group they are absolutely insufferable. Someone described them as lower IQ joos which made me chuckle. The white guys I work with love their little tech toys. When I mentioned the creepy surveillance aspect they shrugged their shoulders, with one obfuscating that it’s about the level… Read more »
Yep. Fixed. Thanks.
The Boston Red Sox already used a form of compound eye to steal pitcher catcher signs.
Looking for a scientific article on Bill Belichick’s compound eye . . .
In other words you’re saying we are safe accessing and posting on your site???😳
Thank you once again for distilling into a concise essay what I and many sense is happening all around.