“If you really want a Star Trek future, it’s not just going to space in cool machines. It’s building a society with respect for all life, sentient and otherwise, applying science wisely, and pursuing principles of justice, fairness and reason. Let’s build that and ride it to the stars” David Grinspoon.
A lot of the young people in my time still have hard time understanding how life before the Covid era was so much about conformity, compliance and hiding one’s individuality – few people were truly authentic. I know from my own youth how many platitudes there were about being an individual, but society really did not encourage individuality and creativity. This was true for all areas of society back then. Science was coopted back in the nineteenth century when dogmatic thinking and business profit became the focus of how science was translated into technology. Great innovation occurred in the late twentieth century but only those technologies that created or maintained corporate profit were seen in the marketplace. It’s amazing in hindsight how much technology creativity was suppressed because it couldn’t generate profit, upset the technological status quo, or offended the knowledge of experts whose societal standing relied on them being the experts – scientism.
After many decades of living with powerful industrial leaders promoting profit at all cost, demonstrating unfeeling, heartless, and indifferent attitudes to people and the environment, in the 2010s they turned around and asked that the peoples of the planet trust them to rectify the environmental and ecological problems that they had created in the first place. Most technologies that were less polluting were nearly always expensive, and as these captains of industry kept telling us, financially unsustainable. So real ecological sustainability was always marginalized and so unattainable. It was talked about a lot, but profit margins and investment profiles were all that was really measured.
From at least the medieval Renaissance, alchemists, then scientists, sought to understand the material world in which we live. Even in 2020, technological innovations – built on the work of science – would have looked like magic to people living only a few decades earlier. The time-tested scientific method was and still is taught to all students. For many people back then, scientific investigation was a bit of a mystery. The media would report sensational findings and then little else.
The mass media portrayed science as once having made a discovery or observation, that this was a fact, and that scientists had somehow come to consensus about those facts. But the scientific method depends not on the existence of a mythical consensus but rather on structured scientific debates. In reality, most people never realized how science research is a long, slow and quite elaborate process, with only major findings making the news (see Reality Check on Research {March 2018}). And scientists, then and now, had to debate in journals about the veracity of all findings – consensus as such was merely scientists agreeing that current explanations (theories) made sense about what was currently known. But consensus was always open and not a final agreement no matter how much many scientists believed in theories that seemed absolute.
“If there is any consensus, science challenges it with new hypotheses, experiments, logic, and critical thinking. Ironically, science advances because it believes it has never arrived; consensus is the hallmark of dead science.” Before the 1980s, much basic science research was done through independent granting systems with some corporate funding. After the 1980s most research started to become funded through large governmental agencies (often themselves funded indirectly by corporate systems) and by corporate systems disguised as philanthropic foundations. That was when individual creativity on research areas outside the box started to wane as corporations funded projects that would manifest with quick financial return on investment. People who questioned this new direction of science research were often marginalized or had their careers cut short – “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it” Upton Sinclair.
The coopting of science was particularly noticeable through the early twenty first century as the mass media became the tool by which corporate interests controlled science information, to guide public sentiment towards various technologies that generated profit. A despicable and notorious example of this kind of manipulation occurred during the Covid era to drive a pandemic response for lucrative and then untested vaccines. The Big Pharma of the time knew that they could never get these treatments onto the market without some kind of pandemic to drive acceptance with minimal testing.
A mantra during the Covid lockdowns was ‘Follow the Science’ and that the ‘Science was consensually set.” But reporting of the science was only set when consensus fit the narratives of the elites. The narrative did not allow science reporting to follow wherever the science led. So, literally, billions of people were bamboozled into accepting a dubious and unknown treatment for a mildly harmful pathogenic agent under emergency protocols that gave full indemnity to the corporate systems involved. In that case, Big Pharma raked in hundreds of Billions of dollars in profit before it was halted, and they could never be prosecuted for all ruined health and damage they did. That began the global outrage that finally halted the ‘Pandemic Preparedness Treaty of the World Health Organization.’
In that same period, the corporate systems and global elites began a campaign to convince people that allowing the elites to ‘reset the global economy’ would create a ‘Build-Back-Better’ world with the elites in full control. Our historians equate what was happening then as similar to what happened during the 1910s-1940s as people in many countries believed the propaganda that negatively controlled their lives. Two world wars and a ‘cold war (1948-1991) showed how effective this type of control could be. Again, controlling overreach by the elites created mass outrage that led to the more decentralized political world we have today instead of the one-global-government envisioned by the elites.
While the new nuclear technology that ended WWII was harnessed to produce electricity, it was also the reason that superpowers of the time created so many nuclear warheads, that the planet could have been destroyed a thousand times over if a nuclear war had ever occurred. Most new technology of that period came out of the massive corporate-governmental controlled global systems around the planet – the military-industrial complex as it was named. It was only after the dismantling of this complex began after 2030 that the true scope of innovations since the 1940s was realized! If we ever wondered where trillions of dollars disappeared in to black budgets in the USA alone, it became obvious with the amazing technologies that started to be released to the public sector at that time.
The elites tried to keep a cap on it all, but public outrage worldwide broke the dam of their control. ‘In an environment in which a government feels it is acceptable to deploy advanced psy-ops on their citizens, the concept of sovereignty becomes obsolete, an anachronism‘ Robert Malone. An awakened humanity was not about to remain enslaved to a system that did not care for them. We understood that control was from a self-proclaimed group of elites, but most of the world’s people felt so disempowered we just complied with their directions. However, more and more, revelations of truth were coming out from a multitude of alternate communications channels to wake people up. While the internet under elite control could have been our jailer, its reach made it our liberator.
What made the Great Change work was not a bloody revolution but an awakening of the human spirit. Once we were free to be individually authentic, we felt empowered to thrive without the need to rely on big bureaucratic systems that had lost their understanding of the term ‘Public Servant.’ My generation were the vanguard of a global movement bolstered by the knowledge and wisdom of our parents and grandparents. As we now know, the Great Change wasn’t quite as straightforward as that, however; it was an exciting time to be alive with vibrant hope for a better world to come with technologies that benefited all humanity.
TBC ………………………
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