We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Ayn Rand
KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE, AND ENEMIES CLOSER, SO THE OLD SAYING GOES ... THE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE ACHIEVES SOME OF THE MEANING OF THE SAYING -- VIRTUALLY ... This communication infrastructure is designed to be an "in your face" or rather "in your hand" or perhaps "in your head" by a virtually unseen technology. But wait, that's not all ... the video following is descriptive of the world's single largest container shipping facility with a throughput greater than all the container shipping ports combined in the United States. Now all this is just part of the Internet-of-Things to which "we" (HUMANITY) have become dependent and defined. A powerfully insightful and fascinating book, small but revealing, entitled "THEY BECAME WHAT THEY BEHELD"; represents in a manner of speaking a symbolic trolling of the bells that normally accompanies a funeral cortege as the unconscious and cognitive landscape of the collective forever changed but not willfully. So what does all this mean! "They" belong to the world of zombie non-thinking.
Another old saying comes to mind: "Familiarity breeds contempt."
