When dealing with matters currently being discussed in political debate, I’m usually the one sticking his hand in the air and expressing an opinion within mere seconds of the topic having even arisen for discussion. Needless to say, it irritates the living Hell of most of my friends, usually because they’re afraid they may be forced to run in multiple directions so as to avoid being accused of actually agreeing with what I’m saying.
No, my friends aren’t cowards; they’re just afraid that they might become increasingly irritated by the banality imbedded in conversations they’re destined to have after I’ve put in my two cents worth of real, honest to God “fact”.
Honestly, though, Scott Moe, Danielle Smith, Pierre Poilievre or Donald Trump and his clown car full of sycophants aside, what really and truly is becoming THE most “annoying” of issues for me is the fact that so many people are rejecting fact because President Trump might call it “Fake News”. Traditionally reliable media is currently in a statistical free fall approaching irrelevance, and being replaced by dubious conspiracy theories, autocratic negative response to public concern, and just plain bullshit on social media platforms.
As to the ongoing negative growth and volume of this negativity within our social media content, we have only the isolation that the Covid-19 pandemic impaled upon our social movement and the blithering nonsense spewed by President Trump to thank for such “growth” and disbursement. Indeed, Trump is so proficient in the utilization of anti-democratic dogma in the promotion of his own ego that he has managed to draw into his circle of influence a collection of misfits that would be better suited to a private room in some psychiatric ward than a Cabinet.
No one in this Cabinet has more “influence” upon the American public than Robert F. Kennedy, currently the Secretary of Health and Human Services in Trump’s Cabinet. His most recent pronouncement, that being to suggest that the usage of Tylenol by pregnant mothers may result in the eventual child being born autistic, has no credence within scientific circles; rather, it is but an offshoot of another phenomenon of the Trumpian “ability” to attract even the most whacky members of the American gene pool to his personal flock.
You may recall that back in 2020 and 2021 I questioned critics of the Covid-19 vaccines as to “why” the two vaccines created by using m-RNA technology were more “potentially dangerous and insufficiently tested” than others, especially now where Tylenol is the most commonly prescribed pain medication, and was also created utilizing the same biological tool.
The utilization of m-RNA in mapping the human genome has become a scientific necessity when it became necessary to harvest stem cells, a body’s unspecialized cells that are not only a fundamental component in our body’s repair system but are also capable of developing into specialized cells (brain, heart muscle, bone, etc.). In turn, the byproducts of such research are then utilized in regenerative medical therapy circles to treat a range of medical issues, including heart or spinal cord injuries.
Unfortunately, stem cells must be harvested from a pre-fertilized human embryo, which anti-abortion activists and so-called “evangelicals” maintained are potential human life and have a moral standing equal to that of a living person – even though such embryo are not capable of full human life unless implanted into a woman’s uterus.
In effect, such distractions have only placed roadblocks in the paths of medical research, thus impeding scientists seeking levels of cures for our body’s many ailments. All that Kennedy is then doing is turning this religious distraction into a disinformation coup that deflects attention away from the realities of what the Trump government is doing in destroying American’s faith in the democratic process, and other topics of relevance uncovered by the traditional media. When, for instance, have you been made aware of progress being made in convincing governments to direct research funding towards the study of asthma and its growth rate in children, relative to the increasing air pollution and increase in the levels of carbon dioxide wreaking havoc upon our environment?
The answer is, you don’t, simply because the new “god” of disinformation becomes another autocratic nuisance, in this case the petroleum industry, who are CURRENTLY the creators of well-paying jobs destined to disappear as the world moves ever increasingly towards “green”, renewable technologies, but whose disciples, be they Scott Moe or Danielle Smith, foretell like some passage in Revelations that economic Armageddon shall prevail lest we travel a different economic pathway.
What we are in effect now seeing being created in political doublespeak is that previous scientific breakthrough capable of creating possible benefit to mankind has been of some unnamed “necessity” has become weaponized for our own good and survival. Scientists, on the other hand, do not see such perversion as good, and are now raising the alarm that a new “god” of disinformation appearing on the horizon, artificial intelligence, and even now we must seek defense to its potential for militarization.
At the moment, AI is nothing more than the saltlick of technological bit-twiddlers all-too-willing to use its power in creating a personal fiefdom for data mining and manipulation of mind and thought, solely for the purpose of not only “selling” us something that we can do without but with the intent of elevating their creation into being seen as the “true” apostles and visionaries of our future.
It’s a topic that I started to explore some ten weeks ago, and continue to develop over time as it applies to its potential to influence the educational pathway democratic societies must follow in order to rein in AI’s immense power and move research in a more progressive direction.
I’m going back to that approach next week. Hope you follow along…
