Friday, January 6, 2017

Tech No

  Technology moves faster than we do, and technology has gotten ahead of us. That is the real story, that someone thousands of miles away can look into anyones life, business, and matters of State, can be gotten by pushing the correct sequence of buttons. So now, we have a big political debate, as to whether it was the Russians this time. Just some months ago, the Chinese got the personal records of 23 million federal workers. Imagine the opportunities for blackmail that could arise given that kind of information. So, was it the Russians, the Chinese, or some disgruntled fat genius from a basement somewhere? To quote our good friend Hillary, At this point what difference does it make? But why concentrate on the hacking of the DNC? Them small potatoes when compared to "the Grid." In our wild eyed acceptance of all that is newer and faster, our personal information, and our national safety in the larger sense, is at serious risk. Me? I'm just an angry old man yelling at the kids to stay off my lawn when it comes to technology. This is the new era I heard tell of when I was a kid. Who would have thought that humans would become so dependent on machines? But what's the answer, can a remedy be found? I don't think so, other than to insist that we slow it down a bit, there is no solution. We have become addicted to speed. But as for me and my fellow pitch fork holders already know, computers aren't really faster, at least not for the consumer. Is your credit machine a stick in edge kind or a slide kind? Do I have to sign the computer screen, or do you have a paper one? Now thats speed! I won't bore you with my Fedex encounter, but suffice it to say that a three minute type transaction took about fifteen. Got so tired of waiting, didn't even wait for my printed receipt. Anyway, enough about that. 

  The second part of this waste of time as to who, is the subject matter that this illegal act uncovered. The truth will out. It is an old expression, but none the less true. The outed emails exposed corruption and collusion, and possibly more upsetting, was the utter disdain for the American people they showed.  But beyond the Democrats, what worries me the most is the collusion of the press. Freedom of the press is a Constitutionally protected right. The ideal being journalists were to be like the Doctor patient relationship, or the Lawyer client relationship. The press was to be the conduit between the people and their government, they are the ones who are meant to keep us informed. In short, they are to tell us the truth. That is what worries me the most, because without an honest press, how far are we from State news?