Paul’s Blog

People are STARVING for some authoritative guaranteed black & white answers. The 15 minute attention span has SHRUNK to the now 15 second elevator spill. Science has created 100 new questions, 10 unanswerable, for each 1 answered this century. The number of sources of warped info, and shady or crazy leaders keeps on growing. Many people are now entering a full retreat from reform, resigned to walking sleep. Prescription medication which is psychoactive (mind altering) is the new ‘normal’.

What was once a determined, practiced deep meditation and focused analysis, became a brief but engaging 1 hour television show, with 2-4 commercials interspersed. Then came the 7 minute video on MTV, followed by VH-1, then BET, and finally YouTube. Attention spans recovered with blogging, for a respite of 10 full minutes of thought…only to be smashed by the explosive rising God called Twitter (artificial ADD). How long before we can offload routine processing of vocalizations (and even motor coordination) to an on board chip implant, which might also record and schedule our favorite “vicarious living”  (the boob tube) into flexible screen surgically inserted into our eye balls behind the lens?

Better yet, why not just hijack the whole optic nerve with a direct feed from a wireless receiver, controlled of course by the central “co-processor”?  That way, we can finally use our conscious brains according to their naturally evolved design; wherein each emotion need not be translated to spoken symbols, censored, or well-composed. But instead, these atomic impulses can be instantaneously gratified, in vegetative zombified indulgence – electronically by the “co-processor” reward bus. That bus (interfaced to and feeding the reward center), can heed the basal motives without guilt or planning, as we gluttonously graze on a high-fat low-thought diet of media designed for compliance management and pacification. We will at that point be ripe dumb slow targets for any self-aware mobile AI bot.