RE: Facebook goes full Big Brother with new “extremism” warnings
I never heard of the Digital Stasi program, probably because I never really keep too much up to date on these kinds of things. But this reminds me of the 30s, when people were asked to spy on and report their neighbors; as well as McCarthyism with the "Red Scare."
Big Tech are now feeling themselves to be Heads of State, and are behaving like dictators. I think it's a kind of "wannabe" syndrome! I heard somewhere, don't remember where, that new laws are being passed to allow Big Tech Companies to declare their property to be like a district, or state, or sovereign area, where they can make their own laws and draft up their own constitution, and basically consider themselves a government.
I'm not really concerned about how it will be abused by the users of Facebook, because we know that this will be the case. My concern would be more towards what will Facebook do with these classifications of "extremists", and will the Intelligence Agencies be part of this "rehabilitation" program?!
Your "creepy" link led to a 404 error page, with a creepy image! Ha ha!
DIgital Stasi is just my name for it because it reminds me of the the way the Stasi were described during the cold war. I don't know much about it, but my understanding is that a good part of their information came from getting members of families and communities to report each other to the state. I agree with your comparisons, too. I guess the same bad ideas just keep getting recycled over and over again.
Fixed the link. Sorry about that.
A lot of this really does make more sense if you read Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584–2069 by William Strauss and Neil Howe. Very powerful discovery they made!
I haven't read the book, but I am aware of the concept, and I have read some articles about it.
I actually noticed a sort of cyclical ~80 year pattern to American history (American Revolution --> Civil War --> WWII --> 2020s) a couple decades ago, before hearing about Generational Theory. It's not a perfect fit, because you have WWI and the Great Depression in there, but it's close enough to raise eyebrows. As a result, I have been wary of the 2020s for quite some time.
And you're right, the reemergence of the same failed ideas definitely fits well into that framework.
The Great Depression started the Crises Season, which gave birth to the Silent Generation, and that ended with WWII, which marked the beginning of the Season of the High, which gave birth to the Baby Boomers. What you pointed out there, were the endings of the "80 years cycle" or Saeculum, but those ending points are generally preceded 20 years prior, by an economic collapse. We are moving towards war, as the cycle goes from Great Depression 1929 to Great Recession 2009.
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Think of WWI more like 9/11!
Along those lines, one of the articles I read said that WWI fit into Europe's 80 year cycle, whereas WWII fit into America's. WWI was almost over by the time that America joined.
In your video, you mentioned your belief that the global cycles might be harmonized now, I can imagine that Europe and America might have come into synch during the Great Depression and WWII.
I absolutely agree, Steve. Even Howe and Stauss said that the rhythms were specific to each society or region of the world, but with globalization and globalism, and especially a global economy, we are all syncing to the saeculum together. Russia is meant to be in the High, but the global recession, and this covid scenario has pushed us closer to total synchronization, which will be finalized with some kind of war, which I believe will be more cyber-based than hand-to-hand combat. The new battleground is digital!