In Addition to my previous Bill Gates description Part II
In fact, Gates has been trying to dismantle the public education system of the United States for two decades. For him, students are mines for data. That is why the indicators he promotes are attendance, college enrollment, and scores on a math and reading test because these can be easily quantified and mined. In reimagining education, children will be monitored through surveillance systems to check if they are attentive while they are forced to take classes remotely, alone at home. The dystopia is one where children never return to school, do not have a chance to play, do not have friends. It is a world without society, without relationships, without love and friendship.
As I look to the future in a world of Gates and Tech Barons, I see a humanity that is further polarized into large numbers of ‘throw-away’ people who have no place in the new Empire. Those who are included in the new Empire will be little more than digital slaves!
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In fact, Gates has been trying to dismantle the public education system of the United States for two decades. For him, students are mines for data. That is why the indicators he promotes are attendance, college enrollment, and scores on a math and reading test because these can be easily quantified and mined. In reimagining education, children will be monitored through surveillance systems to check if they are attentive while they are forced to take classes remotely, alone at home. The dystopia is one where children never return to school, do not have a chance to play, do not have friends. It is a world without society, without relationships, without love and friendship.
As I look to the future in a world of Gates and Tech Barons, I see a humanity that is further polarized into large numbers of ‘throw-away’ people who have no place in the new Empire. Those who are included in the new Empire will be little more than digital slaves!
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Those whose fame and fortune and influence owe to their faithful service to (and rewards from) the twin-headed god of commerce and technology which largely shape and determine our dysfunctional culture are usually so much under its spell that they are like machines themselves. Any suggestions that they ‘get’ Life, and feel compassion or connection to others, is probably feigned- just so much more marketing. It isn’t that they are necessarily “evil” in the sense of being driven by malice, etc. Just sadly, very unaware of any deeper meaning or values to Life than money and power and the sense that they know better than anyone else.
Bill Gates may be a Democrat in party affiliation, but he doesn’t appear to be a believer in any real forms of democracy - seemingly ascribing to the privileges and ‘responsibility (white man’s burden?) that goes with being the 2nd wealthiest man in the world. Based on everything he says (and more importantly, does behind the scenes), I’d say that Gates really does think he’s superior and entitled to direct human civilization and policies. Many such people mistake a modicum of intelligence and significant wealth as an indicator of such superiority, when, as V. Shiva suggests, they lack the consciousness development and humility required of anyone who might really seek to help humanity.
This system of crony capitalism, literally worshiped as the “ideal” economic system by the vast majority of Americans, will have to crash and burn, and take us all down with it, before anything transformative changes. The plutocrats and their puppet politicians, in both parties, are so ideologically bound to capitalism, with its profit motive and “meritocracy,” they would die before giving an inch to “tree huggers” and “commies,” who dare to speak of things like peace, social and economic justice, and living in harmony with nature. I think the American Empire is truly on its last legs. As Dr. Jeremiah Wright said, back in 2008, “Our chickens are coming home to roost.”
By, Catherine Parker
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Catherine Parker
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I wonder what she thought As she stood there, strong and tall. She couldn't turn away, She was forced to watch it all. Did she long to offer comfort As her country bled? With her arm forever frozen High above her head. She could not shield her eyes, She could not hide her face She just stared across the water Keeping Freedom's place. The smell of smoke and terror Somehow reduced her size So small within the harbor But still, we recognized... How dignified and beautiful On a day so many died I wonder what she thought, And I know she must have cried.
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