This began to change about the time of the American Republican Tea Party movement. At the same time Apple invented the iPhone. Over the last decade or so the political center has evaporated and people are now much more polarized and the extremities are much larger. It is almost paralleling the shrinking middle class.
As a Christian I feel the leading of the Holy Spirit and from time to time He highlights a word, or words in the media. For some time I've felt that Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms are oddly important pieces of the puzzle that is life in 2021.
I'm starting to think that the Internet and the algorithms of entities like Twitter and Facebook are creating the Internet into something more than a benign program based on miscellaneous segments of code.
What if the Net identifies your political and intellectual preferences and in a very complex and yet incredibly subtle way. Supplies you with information to manipulate your thought processes. What if it evaluates your personality and actively seeks to build you into the person it has decided it wants you to be?
What if it is seeking to divided humanity and create war in much the same way that SkyNet did in Terminator.
Imagine if the Anti-Vaxers are being feed a specific diet of information to make them more and more obsessed and radical. What if the Pro-Vaxxers are being given the same type of information to develop equally strong and aggressive counter opinions.
What if SkyNet is real and humanity is under the digital control of the elite. My suggestion? Don't allow Internet sources to influence personal value judgements. Big Brother may be watching you but SkyNet definitely is... ???
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