The Same Old Story

I did some investigating at the Popular Science convention in New York. Same series of "new" ideas they present every year. Smaller jump drives, more powerful shields, Silas Koerner's latest doodle on a lunchroom napkin.

Which brings us to what they ARE doing. Imagine that you’re the head of a super sinister Illuminati conspiracy to do an evil thing in the future, let's say that you’re planning to install trackers in people’s heads in order to cement the UEE's control over the population. (Which is just silly, we all know Mobiglases do that exact thing). You're as ready as a pilot at the starting gate, the implanting centres are fully staffed, your super bulk order of trackers has come in from Origin. But you’re worried about how the people will react to the whole thing. Will they accept the implants? Will they cry havoc at the legal requirement and take to the streets, risking an overthrow of the galactic totalitarian system you've worked so hard to build? What’s a Illuminati tyrant to do?

Two words: Predictive Programming. You lay the psychological groundwork for the implantation program by planting images in popular media. You could get a puppet spectrum network to release a new program depicting a future where everyone has a brain implant. Through this media campaign, people will come to accept brain implants as an inevitability. When the time comes, they will accept them without question.

To make the process smoother? Kidnap a few dozen "useless" civilians and test the whole shebang on. Freighters are always looking for workers? More like the government is always looking for more flopets! And how does this all happen? Under the influence of our masters, the Illuminati. Be informed!

Information Overload

I'm back. And I've now got my private detective licence. No more dock-work for me. No sir. I'm now in a position to actually do something against the forces that control the government. One step at a time. Which brings me to my most recent investigation: Information Overload.

One of the most prevalent evils in our society. A society that's crumbling. Crumbling from information overload. We're drowning in a quagmire of vid-clips, spectrum dispatches, and comm-bytes. As a result of this onslaught, people simply shut down. We're in an age with an unprecedented amount of truth available for all to find, and what's the most talked about information? This week's SATAball scores.

And that's just on the informational, mental, side of things. the effects on the spirit and body. The people of the UEE are broken. They're too distracted with the buzz of today's face paced life to look at how they live, and how they should live as a people. Under Messer, people had the excuse of the oppressive government standing over their shoulder. Now that the government has moved behind their vid-screens and the people are just out of reach, the people have decided it's time to oppress themselves. The UEE might have survived the tyranny of the Messer era, but the spirit of her people did not.

As for their bodies, years of technological decadence have left people soft and weak. The population is apparently shutting down and hiding from this apparent truth. They are somehow happy the government propaganda forge makes everything into a nice, warm, sugary, dehydrated package. It’s far easier, and easier is better, right? Like eating the dirt cheap, toxic, reformed, processed, synth-food instead of real, grown food. "You can’t expect me to eat consciously and study what’s in my packaged meals all the time. Surely it can’t be that bad if the UEE has approved these foods and processes. Plus, the media might not be perfect, but they’d never outright lie to us again..”

Thanks to the prevalence of all this useless information in our society, No one has time to think, or look for the truth. But willful ignorance isn't an excuse, it is the duty of every Human to think. Are you doing yours?