Confessions of a Technophobe, New Series 10
Today we live in an increasingly chaotic and troubled world where a culture of lies and fake news has become the norm. Most of the time we simply don’t know who or what to believe in. It seems that we’re reaching a crisis point, a tipping point where life could either improve or grow infinitely worse!
Fortunately, those of us working on the ExoBrain project have a very sane communication system nearing completion. It’s a unique methodology by which truth can emerge and remain truthful if we protect it as planned. It will provide an outlet for people of goodwill, who still exist in large numbers but have been browbeaten and fearful of the uncertainties around us.
We will change that!!!
Like a lighthouse on a dangerous rocky coast, we will emit a powerful beacon of sanity to warn decent human beings to avoid the dangers of a wild and turbulent shore ahead.
History seems to repeat itself with cycles of great growth, calm and happiness, punctuated by times when the forces of evil proliferate. In those times it feels as though the complete destruction of civilization as we know it could come about. Fortunately, because of their own mistakes and ineptitude, these evil forces tend to be self-destructive. There are malignant people intent on anarchy whose lame excuse is that the existing order should be completely destroyed and from the ashes a better world can be built. This is rubbish. A world controlled by such people might make the writings of George Orwell in his books 1984 and Animal Farm look like Sunday School picnic stories by comparison. Thankfully, decent human beings have always finally plucked up courage, bonding together to pick up the pieces left by such monsters.
Looking back on earlier times, the cycle reveals that great civilizations blossom and become incredibly powerful, before corruption sets in. They ultimately die away only to be replaced by another great civilization that does exactly the same. The Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans (and much earlier, the Sumerians and Babylonians) all rose and fell in due course. At the height of the Greek dominance, famous philosopher Plato wrote The Republic in which he outlined his view of how any society should operate. He claimed that only the elite were fit to govern, and the plebeians (the working class or commoner) should accept this status quo. This was also an attempt to prevent the ordinary man from rising up to challenge the elite. Karl Marx based much of his philosophy on this premise even though he was seen as the champion of the working man. The communists had their ruling elite with their luxury cars and dachas (holiday houses).
The concept that some people were more fit to govern than others has remained in various forms throughout the ages. In 1883, for example, the ideas of Englishman Francis Galton, a cousin of Darwin, brought about a movement which he called Eugenics, loosely based on Darwin’s assertion that in the animal kingdom a culture of “survival of the fittest” has always existed. This meant that any feeble or deformed animal in a litter was killed in order to maintain the strength of the group. Galton argued that humans are simply more intelligent animals and should therefore apply a similar principle to that found in wildlife populations. He therefore proposed that selective breeding should be introduced in which the best physically and mentally endowed men and women should breed together to produce the ultimate race. In the nineteenth century white Nordic people were considered to be closest to this ideal, it was inevitable that the racist concept of the pure Aryan race was born.
Eugenics rapidly spread from Britain to other countries, in particular Germany, where the philosophy was embraced, not only by the embryonic Nazi party, but also by the psychiatrists, considered to be the most advanced in the world at that time. This led to a horrific combination of pseudo medical claptrap and the crazed obsession by Hitler to conquer the world with his Master Race, eliminating inferior groups along the way. Involuntary sterilization was introduced, ensuring that inferior or feeble-minded men would never produce any damaged progeny. For a short time, they even went to the extent of killing children “not fit for life” but this proved to be too much to confront for many and it was dropped. Sadly, history is littered with examples of this. Today’s confusion is rooted in similar ambitions.
British aristocrat, writer and philosopher Lord Acton (1834–1902) wrote “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” I wonder whether absolute power creates the lust for wealth or does a lust for wealth create the desire for absolute power? I’m not pointing at any specific group, individual or political movement. I feel it is inherent in the nature of Man for some to want to control all others and for others to be frightened into acquiescence.
Fortunately, there are still good men and women willing to put their reputations and even their lives on the line in opposing constant attempts by others to attain absolute power.
ExoTechnology with its extraordinary ExoBrain remains resolutely non-political. It is willing to become the servant of men and women of decency and goodwill, who are not afraid to speak the truth rather than become embroiled in a pernicious web of lies and deceit, leading our world towards self-destruction.
An ExoTech Ltd shareholder, Chris is currently authoring two of the four books to be published the day ExoBrain launches and has helped to create ExoBrain’s introductory video to the Confidential Technical Briefing. Chris has spent his working life in the film and television industry, starting with BBC Television in London, then ATV in Birmingham becoming, at the time, the youngest Studio Manager in Britain.
Later, in South Africa, he wrote and directed film and TV commercials, having four South African entries at the Cannes Advertising Festival. After a number of years of writing and directing or producing documentaries (eight international awards) and corporate videos, he concentrated on writing feature film screenplays (five screened) and television series (seven screened). He has a novel, ”Pursuit of Treachery,” with a literary agent and is currently obtaining finance for an action adventure feature film he has written and is co-producing. He is a published poet and has given many readings.