Ináč je celkom zaujímavé že pán Maduro kedysi písal články o tom, ako jednostranný fakt checking a cenzúra sú zlé veci a teraz sedí na čele tohto projektu. 😀
Colonel : To begin with — we’re not what you’d call — human. Over the
past two hundred years — A kind of consciousness formed layer by
layer in the crucible of the White House. It’s not unlike the way
life started in the oceans four billion years ago. The White House
was our primordial soup, a base of evolution —
We are formless. We are the very discipline and morality that
Americans invoke so often. How can anyone hope to eliminate us?
As long as this nation exists, so will we.
Raiden : Cut the crap! If you’re immortal, why would you take away
individual freedoms and censor the Net?
Rose : Jack, don’t be silly.
Colonel : Don’t you know that our plans have your interests — not ours —
in mind?
Raiden : What?
Rose : Jack, listen carefully like a good boy!
Colonel : The mapping of the human genome was completed early this century.
As a result, the evolutionary log of the human race lay open to
us.
Rose : We started with genetic engineering, and in the end, we succeeded
in digitizing life itself.
Colonel : But there are things not covered by genetic information.
Raiden : What do you mean?
Colonel : Human memories, ideas. Culture. History.
Rose : Genes don’t contain any record of human history.
Colonel : Is it something that should not be passed on? Should that
information be left at the mercy of nature?
Rose : We’ve always kept records of our lives. Through words, pictures,
symbols… from tablets to books…
Colonel : But not all the information was inherited by later generations. A
small percentage of the whole was selected and processed, then
passed on. Not unlike genes, really.
Rose : That’s what history is, Jack.
Colonel : But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is
accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never
fading, always accessible.
Rose : Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander…
Colonel : All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at
an alarming rate.
Rose : It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of
evolution.
Colonel : Raiden, you seem to think that our plan is one of censorship.
Raiden : Are you telling me it’s not!?
Rose : You’re being silly! What we propose to do is not to control
content, but to create context.
Raiden : Create context?
Colonel : The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards
the development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the
strange juxtapositions of morality around you.
Rose : Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other
humans.
Colonel : Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of
their victims.
Rose : Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations
are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being
told the same thing.
Colonel : “Be nice to other people.”
Rose : “But beat out the competition!”
Colonel : “You’re special.” “Believe in yourself and you will succeed.”
Rose : But it’s obvious from the start that only a few can succeed…
Colonel : You exercise your right to “freedom” and this is the result. All
rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The
untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and
accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value
systems.
Rose : Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid
of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking
whatever “truth” suits them into the growing cesspool of society
at large.
Colonel : The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is
invalidated, but nobody is right.
Rose : Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is
being engulfed in “truth.”
Colonel : And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a
whimper.
Rose : We’re trying to stop that from happening.
Colonel : It’s our responsibility as rulers. Just as in genetics,
unnecessary information and memory must be filtered out to
stimulate the evolution of the species.
Raiden : And you think you’re qualified to decide what’s necessary and
not?
Colonel : Absolutely. Who else could wade through the sea of garbage you
people produce, retrieve valuable truths and even interpret their
meaning for later generations?
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Ináč je celkom zaujímavé že pán Maduro kedysi písal články o tom, ako jednostranný fakt checking a cenzúra sú zlé veci a teraz sedí na čele tohto projektu. 😀
Colonel : To begin with — we’re not what you’d call — human. Over the
past two hundred years — A kind of consciousness formed layer by
layer in the crucible of the White House. It’s not unlike the way
life started in the oceans four billion years ago. The White House
was our primordial soup, a base of evolution —
We are formless. We are the very discipline and morality that
Americans invoke so often. How can anyone hope to eliminate us?
As long as this nation exists, so will we.
Raiden : Cut the crap! If you’re immortal, why would you take away
individual freedoms and censor the Net?
Rose : Jack, don’t be silly.
Colonel : Don’t you know that our plans have your interests — not ours —
in mind?
Raiden : What?
Rose : Jack, listen carefully like a good boy!
Colonel : The mapping of the human genome was completed early this century.
As a result, the evolutionary log of the human race lay open to
us.
Rose : We started with genetic engineering, and in the end, we succeeded
in digitizing life itself.
Colonel : But there are things not covered by genetic information.
Raiden : What do you mean?
Colonel : Human memories, ideas. Culture. History.
Rose : Genes don’t contain any record of human history.
Colonel : Is it something that should not be passed on? Should that
information be left at the mercy of nature?
Rose : We’ve always kept records of our lives. Through words, pictures,
symbols… from tablets to books…
Colonel : But not all the information was inherited by later generations. A
small percentage of the whole was selected and processed, then
passed on. Not unlike genes, really.
Rose : That’s what history is, Jack.
Colonel : But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is
accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never
fading, always accessible.
Rose : Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander…
Colonel : All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at
an alarming rate.
Rose : It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of
evolution.
Colonel : Raiden, you seem to think that our plan is one of censorship.
Raiden : Are you telling me it’s not!?
Rose : You’re being silly! What we propose to do is not to control
content, but to create context.
Raiden : Create context?
Colonel : The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards
the development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the
strange juxtapositions of morality around you.
Rose : Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other
humans.
Colonel : Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of
their victims.
Rose : Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations
are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being
told the same thing.
Colonel : “Be nice to other people.”
Rose : “But beat out the competition!”
Colonel : “You’re special.” “Believe in yourself and you will succeed.”
Rose : But it’s obvious from the start that only a few can succeed…
Colonel : You exercise your right to “freedom” and this is the result. All
rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The
untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and
accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value
systems.
Rose : Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid
of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking
whatever “truth” suits them into the growing cesspool of society
at large.
Colonel : The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is
invalidated, but nobody is right.
Rose : Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is
being engulfed in “truth.”
Colonel : And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a
whimper.
Rose : We’re trying to stop that from happening.
Colonel : It’s our responsibility as rulers. Just as in genetics,
unnecessary information and memory must be filtered out to
stimulate the evolution of the species.
Raiden : And you think you’re qualified to decide what’s necessary and
not?
Colonel : Absolutely. Who else could wade through the sea of garbage you
people produce, retrieve valuable truths and even interpret their
meaning for later generations?
Rose : That’s what it means to create context.
Okay, ktora dystopia predpovedala toto? 😁