A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about all of our electronic gadgets, that we believe we cannot live without, being able to "listen" to us. The main focus of this line of thought went out to the new gadget call Echo. Echo sits in your house, office, whatever and whenever one finds themselves in a quandary about some subject, all one has to do is to speak out loud, to Echo and it will answer your question....back at you....in a human sounding voice.
The article went on to explain that a young lady had merely been sitting in her home, having a conversation with a friend, about a subject she had not searched online. The next time she would get online, advertisements for the very subject she had talked about, in the privacy of her own home, would show up on whatever page she would access online. This young lady was the proud owner of an Echo.
I love a good conspiracy theory and I do wear the tin foil hat from time to time, actually more often than not, but people really need to pay attention to just what is going on. When we allow ourselves, our lives, our private moments, to be accessed 24/7 by the "eye in the sky", what in actuality are we really giving up? Why is it necessary to gather all this information about people? Where does all this info and data go? Who has it? What are they doing with it? Is it all just for advertising and going to the next level for a company to get us to buy their product at all costs? Or could it be for another reason? Could it be for control? It is always easier to control the masses when the power knows exactly what the masses are doing.
I shared my theory with a friend and he recalled a movie he had watched. He said there were two drug dealers having a meeting. Before either spoke a word, they took their cell phones and put them into a metal drawer in a tool chest, then they started their motorcycles, next to the tool chest, and let them run. All this to make sure that their business deal was not heard by anyone or any thing.
I've read that the movies we watch are how we are entrained to believe certain things. For instance, I watched a short video the other day about microchip implants for humans. These devices allowed the implantee to have easier access to their place of employment. No longer would they need a key to open the door or a shared printer, these tasks could be accomplished with the wave of a hand. The list of benefits from these implants went on and on, but what really shocked me was the statement made by one young woman very eager to get her chip. She said that she had seen this idea played out in the movies so many times that she was conditioned to believe it was OK........
Once again, I will close with a true, short story. Our two youngest daughters rented a car and came south to help us with our recent move. The rental car needed to be dropped off in St. Louis, Missouri when they were done with it. Our oldest son in law picked the girls up in St. Louis and as they were leaving the city, they passed a large billboard for an insurance company and it sported a picture of the agent, in need of business. The agent's name was there, in large letters and as they sped past the sign, they said something silly like, "Hello John Smith!" The next day, when one daughter was at work, she turned on her computer and there in the advertisement section was an ad for the very same insurance man..........they all had their cell phones with them and naturally they were turned on, but none of them were on their phones at the time....
Believe what you want, but my tinfoil hat may become a fashion statement before too long.
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