Power, Politics & Poverty in the digital age

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Based on a phenomenal book by Jakob Linaa Jenson: “ The medieval Internet”

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Transcript:
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Speaker 0 (0s): Welcome back. My friend, I change by not changing history. Doesn't repeat, but it isn't it weird how the older you get, the more you become like your parents, even though when you were young, you swore to yourself that you would never become like your parents. It seems to me, you can run your whole life, but not go anywhere.

There's nothing new under the sun. Do you guys see what's happening right now? If you want to know the future, you must look at the path he who controls the future controls the past. He controls the past control as the present did, get it.

You understand, we have this weird feeling of deja VU right now, a feel, and I hope you feel this way. And if you don't feel this way, I am going to try to make you feel the way that I feel using the words I'm using. I'm going to paint you a picture. I'm hopeful. It will be a masterpiece. I'm hopeful that if you can get goosebumps by listening to the words, I'm about to talk to you about the words I'm about to give to you.

If I can make you get goosebumps, if I can make your face flush, then I am communicating with you. So let me see if I can do that. This whole COVID the whole world of the internet. It seems eerily familiar. Doesn't it? You know, history is something that can be so amazing and so beautiful.

And so poetic. If you want to know where your rat in your life, there's probably someone who wrote a book or a story or a fable. There's probably a story that explains your life. Your story is a beautiful story. If your willing to take control of it, if you're willing to take ownership of your life and your story, it will be a story that can be remembered. And if you've lost your way, they look back and you can find your way ahead.

Let me explain what I mean or at least attempt to do so controlling information is controlling the world.

Speaker 1 (3m 1s): Gonna say that again, controlling information is controlling the world. If you can control information, you can control the world. I'm going to make the argument that we in today's society in 2020 are beginning to look a lot more like a medieval system.

Speaker 0 (3m 21s): The, the comments, the monarchy, the Catholic church,

Speaker 1 (3m 29s): What worries about new technology they're as old as the discoveries of new technologies already, Plato was warning that writing would damage memory and recognize the double sided nature of new technology with on the one side, the vast advantages given by writing in the organization of his resources. And on the other side, have the ability of insurgence to use writing, to organize against the powers that be.

We've touched upon this a little bit. There's a book

Speaker 0 (4m 4s): That

Speaker 1 (4m 6s): Goes in to some of this. It's called tech knobbly, and he also speaks about this exact same passage. However, he takes it back further. He takes it back to the times of Toth. Remember the Emerald tablets of talk. Do you remember that? And Toth goes up into his, his master,

Speaker 0 (4m 25s): God damn. And I forgot that guys name

Speaker 1 (4m 28s): Anyways, I'll come back to it. However, he goes and he speaks to them and he says, listen, to have created this new technology called writing, and it's going to help the people so much cause they didn't have to remember everything in the leader says on a top Toth, you are marvelous. You come up with all of these beautiful technologies and inventions, but think about it writing while it would make things easier for people in the long run, it's going to make them weaker. It's going to make them weaker due to the fact that they no longer need to understand why they need don't.

They no longer needed to have to remember. They were just going to refer to this book and it's going to weaken the mentally. And isn't that the case with all our technologies, all our technologies make life a little bit easier, but they also take something away from us. Let me put it into a, into a term that the blue collar guy, guys like me can understand. I I can drive a 40,000 pound truck stick, shift up a Hill.

I realize how to put one foot on the brake, one foot on the clutch and then gas. It slowly led off. Put that thing in first and then move up the Hill without rolling back too far in today's world. Most people

Speaker 0 (5m 52s): Have a,

Speaker 1 (5m 55s): The car. If you live in the first and an upper class neighborhood, you have a car. This not only has an automatic transmission, but it has a backup camera. You might even have a car that drives itself. So those who can drive a stick shift in today's world are there old, but there are also knowledgeable that's one example of how technology is making our life better, but also making us forget about how to really use the technologies that got us here.

Does that kind of make sense, trying to paint a few examples of how all this marvelous technology is actually taken us backwards in the middle ages, the Catholic church exercise, it's a vast power to make itself the gatekeeper, not only of salvation, any eternal life, but also information. It was the church that preserved the culture of the past, including the Latin language, the ability to read and write and thereby the access to written information, not at least forbidden or censored texts, not at least forbidden or censored texts.

Those were reserved for a relatively small sector of the population consisting of monks priests, sometimes nuns and others related to the church. This a symmetry between the keepers of written information for the most part in Latin, which existed as the code in which a serious information is represented this reproduced and reinforced existing power hierarchies and society, keeping the masses illiterate.

Who does that sound like? Now? The modern day church are the tech companies. They are in fact a form of religion, right? OK. This is the social justice warriors can be like the new Catholics and The the right wingers, the Q and honors. And these people on the right. They could be like the Muslims. And there are, there's this new division.

Hey, I hate this perfect cause of this. I hate this person cause of that. Right? It's like the Qur'an versus the Bible versus the new Testament, right? The religious books are like fingers pointing to the moon, but everyone gets caught up in the finger. It's the same thing with these new ideologies that these tech companies, it isn't it weird how they have been deemed the arbiter of truth.

This is new tech companies. Believe that they are the ones that should be censoring stuff. That is too. Oh no, it's too scary for you to read. Oh man. Hey no one looks at Hunter Biden smoke at a bunch of crack right now. Don't do that. When you chop buy it in an office. Otherwise the whole world who will, if we don't have Joe Biden become president, we were all going to die. If Trump becomes president, we're all gonna die. Are you f*****g kidding me?

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