It is often said that patience hangs by a thread. If you think about everything that's hanging on these days: Mismanagers, mask masochists, vaccination stalinists, resignation deniers, fact deniers, app failures, denunciators, and many more patience eaters. How much patience is actually left? Basically. Is patience one of the renewable resources in human existence? I think it will be used up at some point.
When you walk through the streets and listen to people during fleeting encounters, you see empty gazes and hear hollow sounds. It is the echo of empty vessels of patience.
So I guess it would be easy for me to become a defeatist, misanthrope, cultural pessimist or technology denier these days. I wouldn't claim any of these labels for myself and yet I get whiplash from shaking my head.
This shaking unites me with the reader and viewer Dieter Ahlborn. He sent me the e-mail that I would like to recommend to you here as a short read. Naturally, I asked the author for permission to publish it. The publication he refers to in his e-mail is linked below. You can download the articles mentioned in the e-mail directly from there.
E-Mail:
The perversions of the digital revolution.
Everything can be marketed...the corona disaster as an icebreaker of the digital revolution, what was not possible before is now possible, especially when it concerns people.
In the latest issue of a well-known magazine for electronics production entitled "productronic" published by Hüthig Verlag (issue 03/2021), I first read the headline on page 38: "Microelectronics for the clothing of tomorrow, integrating conductor paths into textiles" and the lead story: "Just imagine: Microelectronics becomes a fashion accessory and gives garments new functions. With the help of integration technologies, clothing can be networked and textile-integrated sensors can be used, opening up prospects for wearable applications, for example in e-health".
The rest of the article is about smart rehab shirts that measure the muscle movements of stroke patients, for example. Research into the development of "artificial skin" is not completely alien to me and I can even make sense of it up to this point. I read on, followed by the headline: "Monitoring in your underwear"..... Italian designer Giulia Tomasello, for example, wants to uncover taboos surrounding female health and monitor vaginal flora with her project "Alma". The team of designers, an anthropologist and Fraunhofer researchers are developing underwear with an integrated pH sensor: the aim is to enable non-invasive diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis and fungal diseases in everyday life and prevent serious inflammation. The reusable biosensor collects data in the gusset of the underwear and transmits it to a module measuring approximately one square centimeter... "
I need a short break.
Not yet completely incapable of thinking, my pulse quickens at the thought of clothing in the penal system of the future or for dementia patients. I hastily turn the page and read the headline on page 40 of the magazine:
"Connecting computers and brains, producing 3D implants" with the lead story: "An international team of researchers has used the possibility of 3D printing to connect brains with computers via 3D printed implants. The result of the research is a prototype neural implant that could be used to develop treatments for problems in the nervous system".
I close the magazine and forbid myself to think. On the way to the coffee machine, I start thinking again: it's a good thing, I think to myself, that I've incorporated head nodding into my daily yoga exercises, because shaking my head is increasingly becoming a one-sided movement for me. Over the very long Easter weekend, I continue to build my analog space.
Yours sincerely
Dieter Ahlborn
Thank you for your Support of independent journalism in Germany.
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...if the red-red-green coalition were to take over in September, things wouldn't get any better and we'd be just a little bit closer to China...the Merkellinie won't work either...it would be better if it went now - yesterday already...
For 20 years, I have been warning and cautioning against the conditions outlined here and asking everyone to think about them. Data collection and utilization are now seen as the new "gold" and my prophetic analyses have already been partially fulfilled.
But like a caller in a lonely forest, it echoes back again and again: "You poor lamp!
That's probably how Cassandra felt, who foresaw everything and wasn't believed. But Troy sank anyway.
When will people wake up and realize that none of this will be to their benefit?
When it's too late. Then they realize it.
Yes, well, I wouldn't want to go back to the days of index cards either. So I am in favour of a certain degree of digitization. However, when I read something like this, it sends a shiver down my spine.
It's not about digitalization yes/no. It's about whether we use digitalization positively and keep it under control or whether digitalization is used to patronize and control us. Unfortunately, the current trend is more in the latter direction. Corona is fueling this trend. The media never tire of glorifying Israel as a shining example, which now uses an app that only grants admission to events after digital consultation with state organizations. If we accept all this, our liberal social order will soon be nothing more than a phrase without content.
In order to counter this dystopian, long-planned future, the decisive forces are, as mentioned, the creation and permanent strengthening of analog spaces in each and every one of us.
Secondly, the accumulation of these fields of force through regional gatherings imbued with the unshakeable certainty and joy that each of us has the legitimacy to shape the future ourselves.
Greetings Armin
Small addendum:
The Davos clique, as Mr. Füllmich likes to say, openly admits what they have in mind:
https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/507640/Klaus-Schwab-Great-Reset-wird-zur-Verschmelzung-unserer-physischen-digitalen-und-biologischen-Identitaet-fuehren
Hints have been available for some time, quite suitable and recommendable as a printout for distribution
https://corona-transition.org/eilmeldung-der-aktuell-in-den-hauptmedien-hochgelobte-biontech-pfizer-impfstoff
As a pensioner and graduate electrical engineer, I am well aware of the magazine cited. However, until now I was not aware of the extent to which electronics is already involved in the total surveillance of people in the truest sense of the word. Then it is not so far-fetched that nano-particles are injected in the "vaccination" against "the evil virus", as mentioned by some scientists in the meetings of the Corona Committee, in order to maintain total control over the respective individual. Bill Gates sends his regards. A gruesome realization!
We think, therefore we are. Creation has endowed us with intellect. The human mind has provided us with knowledge and products so that we can make these meaningful comparisons. It is reassuring that we are still able to do this ourselves!
Apparently this process is not available to everyone
Deuteronomy 30:19 >I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse, so that you may choose life...<
But this is now uncritical water for the mills of the vaccination advocates
...yesterday I visited a 97-year-old friend who - now vaccinated twice - didn't notice a thing and is happy to be able to receive visitors again. Topic over. Fortunately, not everything goes wrong - but unfortunately too much.
Technological progress has always been used for both good and fatal purposes. The question of "WHO and with what intention" is likely to decide the direction. Unfortunately, everything in life is always the first performance - there is nothing to rehearse... there are also enough bad people - and weird visions of a "Great Reset" are already far too advanced. That scares me too. The possibilities of digital abuse are more than scary.
I'm pleased that her friend seems to be doing well so far. But what do you mean, she's happy that she can have visitors again? ? To what extent are visiting rights connected with the vaccination?
...here there was a voluntary, family restriction out of caution...(which was more or less strictly adhered to...)
Great contribution - thanks for that and please keep it up!....
Dear Dieter,
We are in a time when we will no longer need our brains for much longer. Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, will relieve people of thinking and all responsibility. Sensors such as those in your wonderfully formulated essay or even robots will do their bit to perfect the system right through to autonomous (e-)mobility. The feature film "Idiocracy" provides a deep insight into this crazy world. Last weekend showed that our politicians are prepared to take us by the hand and lead the way in this development. This is how "we all arrive together" in this new era. The RWE Group created the appropriate advertising slogan years ago: "Have we Germans actually gone mad?". Yes, we have, as every drive through our country past a stagnant energy supply of the future makes clear. But as long as the world has not understood that the question in RWE's advertising message was not meant rhetorically, we can set off on our journey into the promising digital paradise of eco-socialism hand in hand with our clever politicians, scientists and engineers.
Have a wonderful analog weekend
Roland
yes, thank you very much for this publication.
the article makes me sad. on the one hand, it talks about the perversions of human thought and action. on the other hand, it talks about the powerlessness of being exposed to it.
our species .... is too often a tragedy alongside wonderful highlights . what is driving us? where is this journey going?
with warmest regards and thanks for your work, which for me is characterized by a very sincere attitude, among other things.
barbara eckardt
Sorry, I don't like this lower case method...
Does this comment mean what exactly?
Sorry! "Sorry" ... always these anglicisms ... (Jokes!)
Hello Mr. Langemann,
Thank you for publishing the e-mail from Mr. Ahlborn. It's all hard to believe, and terrifying...
Instead of fighting hunger and disease in the world, creating peace and showing people how to use their minds properly, namely always in the spirit of our Mother Nature, so that our planet heals itself again automatically, everything contrary is actually being done and planned. The mind is out of control again, but the inner values are the same and eternal in all people.
In this respect, everything will develop positively over time.
Thanks again for your good work, every article in the Club of Clear Words is a highlight!
With kind regards.
Greetings!
Ralf Koppelmann
Between whiplash and being strangled by the seatbelt...