So long we have been told slavery is abolished, apartheid terminated, segregation extinct and fossilized. There's nothing further from the truth though, daily the demands of the working world have been increasing with even routine office jobs now being made to work excess hours with heavier commitments and threats of termination if such demands are not agreed to, it reminds me of Jack the Whipper in the story of Roots where he ordered a slave to confess his new name as Toby and forsake his given name of Kunta Kente.
In these modern times where everything seems so equal and balanced, there are glass ceilings we have been hitting via the subliminal insertion of societal segregation disguised as class definition. In the old days of apartheid, it was illegal for blacks and whites to use the same bathroom or ride on the same end of the bus, well after the great Madiba (Nelson Mandela for those of you not up to speed on history), you now have certain positions and tools being made unavailable to people of a particular skin type or gender. Don't believe me, consider this, Oprah Winfrey has been a longtime household name for her acclaimed and legendary television series. She has performed many great feats of charity and has been a longtime member of the Fortune 500 club. You would think with all of that backing her when she launched her own cable network she would receive the same backing and endorsement she has given to so many in her days belonging to a network. Well surprise surprise the only people who really supported her were the Discovery Channel and Tyler Perry. With Sean Combs later joining in its amazing how many people do not actually want Oprah to succeed. She herself has been publicly critical of the support not given to her even by the very businesses she once rubbed elbows with when they were using her name to get their products into our homes. Back track a decade to the then upstart UPN who didn't even own a proper television series but somehow got multiple endorsements from around the world and we begin to see where the new borders of inequity exist.
Classification of people based on their perceived financial capabilities is the most degrading form of societal separation ever. It has gotten so bad it even trickles down into children as daily more and more cases of peer abuse due to some children being better off than others. Exactly how is this different fro. The days of blacks riding in the back of the bus?? The rise of technology has given us a very public and graphic look at the effects of such disparity. It has gotten worst to now that wealth is being attained by a wider variety of people, now you have higher and lower classesof wealth, with only the selected higher class being afforded mass support for their continued success whilst the rest continue to slave at the plantation of Jack the Whipper trying their best to buy back their forty acres and own a plantation.
Better than that society
R2
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Friday, January 3, 2014
Return of the Word
It's been a while since I've been here, the advent of new technology though allows for plenty. As I'm on the topic of plenty, I very often wonder what the world would be like without it.
Today's world is literally revolves around anything that consumes some sort of electricity. Whether it be cell phones, tablets, appliances, cars, whatever have you it most likely demands some form of electricity. With such demands for a limited supply of power one has to wonder what would really happen should the world shut down one day.what would happen if we were forced to communicate with each other via face to face conversations for extended hours of the day. Think you can do it? Do you really think you can unplug for even a day? OK consider this, in 1993 to operate a desktop computer required specialized training from a certified tech master with at least advanced hardware and software knowledge especially of the DOS operating software or Linux for you longtime nerds. These days even macbook first timers can just walk in a store purchase one and use it immediately with barely a crash course from the neighbour. These conveniences have made the world so small that going from the Caribbean to Australia is but a click of a screen. Imagine unplugging yourself from the ability to instant message or even use basic text messaging, then add no more social media, email, or mobile phone calls. Believe it or not such times existed, I remember less than ten years ago touch screen cell phones were the wave of some far away universe in science fiction imagination.
The downside of such convenience though is that it leads us to dangerous temptations. The human penchant to push the limits of life has seen a remarkable increase of the levels of abuse attained within such a short space of time. In less than a decade of development mankind has become much more promiscuous with a sharp rise in infidelity on the part of both genders. Men and women can now easily discard of evidence of indiscretions with the touch of a button. Children now teach their parents how to operate devices intended for adults and then turn and abuse the use of these devices ending up many times on the wrong side of the law.
The new saying is that smarter devices make dumber people and it is very true. We rely more on the device and less on our abilities makimg the devices a measure of our intellect and accuracy instead of the other way around. Consequently this limits the abilities of the average human returning us essentially to neanderthalesque days where man was incapable of not much more than reproduction and even then we are surpassed and measured by machines. Check yourself who really is master and operator.........................
Today's world is literally revolves around anything that consumes some sort of electricity. Whether it be cell phones, tablets, appliances, cars, whatever have you it most likely demands some form of electricity. With such demands for a limited supply of power one has to wonder what would really happen should the world shut down one day.what would happen if we were forced to communicate with each other via face to face conversations for extended hours of the day. Think you can do it? Do you really think you can unplug for even a day? OK consider this, in 1993 to operate a desktop computer required specialized training from a certified tech master with at least advanced hardware and software knowledge especially of the DOS operating software or Linux for you longtime nerds. These days even macbook first timers can just walk in a store purchase one and use it immediately with barely a crash course from the neighbour. These conveniences have made the world so small that going from the Caribbean to Australia is but a click of a screen. Imagine unplugging yourself from the ability to instant message or even use basic text messaging, then add no more social media, email, or mobile phone calls. Believe it or not such times existed, I remember less than ten years ago touch screen cell phones were the wave of some far away universe in science fiction imagination.
The downside of such convenience though is that it leads us to dangerous temptations. The human penchant to push the limits of life has seen a remarkable increase of the levels of abuse attained within such a short space of time. In less than a decade of development mankind has become much more promiscuous with a sharp rise in infidelity on the part of both genders. Men and women can now easily discard of evidence of indiscretions with the touch of a button. Children now teach their parents how to operate devices intended for adults and then turn and abuse the use of these devices ending up many times on the wrong side of the law.
The new saying is that smarter devices make dumber people and it is very true. We rely more on the device and less on our abilities makimg the devices a measure of our intellect and accuracy instead of the other way around. Consequently this limits the abilities of the average human returning us essentially to neanderthalesque days where man was incapable of not much more than reproduction and even then we are surpassed and measured by machines. Check yourself who really is master and operator.........................
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