Being monitored every second of your life by technology

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Isn't technology just great? The wonders these small gadgets can do. Phones, bands, watches,...

We are voluntarily being measured every moment of our day. Awake or asleep.

Measured, compared, evaluated, rewarded, tutored, consulted, patronized, advertised to, sold to,... Controlled? Voluntarily and gladly, again.

We, boys especially. We love numbers. Take a look at all american spectator sports with myriad of statistics.

What I was aiming to say? Oh yes, do we really need all this? No, we don't! Yet, we still do it. And brag about it. Like in this article.

Being two faced, am I not? Of course I am.


The numbers game through out the day

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This soul has been sold to the numbers' devil for a long time...



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@ervin-lemark,

Hey mate.

Personally, I find it disturbing. I like my privacy and do what I can
to limit my inclusion in databases. Maybe I'm being anti-social. :-)

I'm in advertising and increasingly the industry is becoming little more than a numbers game. In doing so, though, it's losing its ability to connect with people. Human beings are more than the sum total of their data points. Indeed, the things which most define them are "emergent properties," things which defy reductionist analysis.

And the advertising industry is but a microcosm of the wider world. I have long opined that resumes are extraordinarly poor measures of a man and yet people are increasingly being valued by that which can be reduced to a metric.

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Hey, my dear friend.

Thanks a lot for your comment. I value your opinion highly.

Yes, profiling is the word. It's statistical averaging on an overdrive. Add an emerging AI functionality to the mix and you get ... Matrix :(

This will sound like a lie and a paradox when you look above and see how I am voluntarily under every kind of measurement and following for every breathing second of my life.

I believe in free will.

I believe that everything in our life is our decision and our responsibility. I can decide not to use these gadgets. I can even decide that I won't use Steem any longer :)

Yet, on the other hand, we humans are creatures of comfort. We live by basic rules. We are herd animals. Combine these axioms with propaganda industry, add to it commercialism and new technologies and you get ...

My wife is calling me to join the family for breakfast. I gotta run. Better - I decide to join them. Write you later ...


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@ervin-lemark,

I believe in free will.

The famous last words of a man to a woman. :-)

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😀

Well, your decisions have the consequences, of course.

This is opposite to what almost every institutionalized religion does. It takes away your free will so you can blame someone else for your misery.

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@ervin-lemark,

Agreed. The absolution of personal responsibility is a narcotic ... and a damnably dangerous one at that. I would quibble with your comment in one respect: It's not "religion" per se that does it, it's the blind "ideological thinking" that religions tend to require of their believers (although it should be noted that this is NOT universal).

The reason I mention this is because the EXACT same mentality can be observed as the result of involvement in "Utopian political religions" (the French Revolution, Fascism, Marxism, Anarchism, etc.). At present, this is most prevalent on the Far Left (Progressivism) although Anarchism is alive and well in cryptoland. Orwell's dystopian depictions of what "English Socialism" would become (and remember, he was an English Socialist) was prophetic, just a couple of decades early.

The re-writing of history, and indeed of the very evidence before one's eyes, so that it "fits the Narrative ... is jaw-dropping. Universities are forfeiting their responsibility to uncover "Veritas" (Truth) in favor of preaching "Social Justice."

What is the EVIDENCE supporting the assertion that there are an "infinite number of genders?" All of science (never mind common sense) says there's only two (male, female) but because the Gender Studies Department wants to "redefine gender" so that no one's "abnormal," everyone just plays along. Biologists, geneticists, psychologists ... all cowed into silence.

Everyone pretending a thing is true when they all know it's not. Astonishingly ... "The Emperor's New Clothes" is actually happening. ... at Harvard. We see similar nonsensical assertions being made throughout "Progressive" (Far Left) politics. Their religion is predicated upon the assertion that the world is comprised of the Oppressors and the Oppressed (Post-Modern Identity Politics) and every incident of personal tribulation (real or imagined) as evidence of systemic discrimination.

I'm toying with doing a post about a movie I recently watched on Netflix: "Troy, Fall Of A City." Being a poet and a history buff, I admit to a certain defensiveness when it comes to screwing around with the great classics such as the Iliad. So imagine my horror to discover that Zeus, the King of the Greek Gods ... was black. As was Achilles, the Greeks' greatest Hero second only to Hercules. And, of course, no retelling of the Iliad would be complete ... without a bisexual threesome depicting Achilles banging, while getting banged. And women, don't you know, were co-rulers in Troy. And Helen, of course, appears in a suggestively lezzie bath scene. On and on.

For many people, such movies are the ONLY exposure they will ever have to such histories (even "historical myths" ought to be treated "historically" as they impacted, often dramatically, real history).

To my chagrin, I've come to learn that almost all movies or television series produced by Netflix suffer from similar ideological adulteration. Utilising the "Mere Exposure Effect" (a technique frequently employed in advertising), audiences are being conditioned into believing the plausibility of "blatantly false narratives." It is an attempt to redefine what constitutes, "reality" ... and by doing so, "fantasy."

This is as insidious as it gets ... and it may explain why universities, throughout the Western World, have been overwhelmed by an avalanche of "mental health issues" amongst their student bodies since about 2013 (it is speculated that this is the result of this generation being the first to have been immersed in social media since their adolescence) .

"Reality Testing," a counseling technique pioneered by Freud, is uncovering an entire generation incapable of distinguishing between fantasy and reality.

The ability of Ideological Thinking (of whatever kind) to shut down Critical Thinking was precisely the reason for the Enlightenment.

We are backsliding ... badly.

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