I could be asking that question of many things, as we are in the midst of a strange time when many things purported to be smart, are turning out to be very dumb indeed. But phones will be getting the spotlight here, although they aren’t really used as such anymore are they, but we had come to know them as Mobile Phones, which I have written about before, so this is follow on from that. But one part of it I would like to elaborate on –

“They have now been with us for a couple of decades, so time has told, and people do not seem happier for it. I find it odd how in a time of information, we seem to know less than we ever did. And in an age of unlimited communication, we have never felt so far apart.”

We were ‘bought together’ under the guise of technology for the greater good, but appears it was a bait and switch routine and has been used instead to separate and isolate people. The elderly bearing the brunt of much of this exclusion, but it is filtering down to all generations and age groups in different ways. Now no longer able to book doctors’ appointments unless you have an app, therefore a smart phone. Or do your banking because the branch has closed, or pay by cash because shops won’t allow you. Seems like small things on the face of it, and people used to just sneer at the people who ‘didn’t keep up’ or were said to not be adaptable to change, and in some cases that may well be true. But it’s all part of the bigger puzzle, wanting you to not want the old ways, or easier method, because it’s old. New does not mean better, as well as has been proven. Children being made to scan in to receive their school lunches, people being herded into systems and procedures, but being excluded if they don’t. That’s how they make you think you choose these things, convincing you that it really is convenient. Then quietly making sure you are then tied in, and cannot decide to not be part of it, my article Convenience or Dependence? looked at that from a wider angle.

But all this ‘Smart’ is starting to wear thin and, like I said, look really quite dumb. Trying to make everyone go electric, but clearly without the infrastructure for it and the cost far outweighing the benefit, in monetary and economic terms. That’s why it seems just a ploy to get everyone to just stand by while the existing infrastructure is dismantled and destroyed right before our eyes. It’s ok, I’ll fix it later they say, while taking it all away. Or saying I’ll save some for you, right up until every last crumb is eaten. At what point do people recognise they are full of shit, and then at what point do people admit it, followed by doing something about it? Too many systems already have tied people up in knots, made their everyday normal life a chore, and a hassle to just be able to navigate what used to be simple processes. Pretending to make things easier, but clearly just trying to bottleneck people into procedures for their utopic ideal of a controlled, medicated and monitored population. And people do keep handing themselves over to them to do this, so I get why it continues – it is a very well laid trap. Like I have said before, it’s like the Hydra, with each head being a branch of ‘society’ which at some point you will inevitably turn to, for education, healthcare, finance or just being allowed to live by way of birth certificate, an issued number and licenses thereafter. If you try and cut off one head and walk away, another has you. Now they want to ‘upgrade’ that system, and scan you, have your biometrics and life data stored. All sounds totally normal doesn’t it?

But as I said, it’s just an upgrade. From our registries of births, marriages and deaths, taxes and census’s wanting your personal information to be manually compiled, we have now moved on to The Digital Doomsday Database. For these new technological times they have ushered in, we will be subject to their ‘SMART’ systems, keep in mind the smart bit isn’t for us, it’s for them. Funny as well that they call the underground bases DUMBS, meaning we get left with the ‘smart’ and they get the ‘dumb’. Don’t forget, words and their meaning really are important. But the whole smart system is to make it easier for them to monitor and manipulate with them accordingly, with no real advantage to people on the ground now it would seem, with their price gouging and greed now out there for everyone to see. It was never about helping people, or looking after the public, or trying to help to create a better life for people at all. The whole time they have been messing with people’s abilities to provide for themselves, restricting and supressing their natural instincts and Holding Us Back. Keeping the industrial revolution wheels turning as they needed them to, with people doing the jobs they needed them to, clearing out the countryside with whatever methods were necessary, and herding people into cities. As they appear to be doing again in certain places, and have done over the decades in various countries, under the guise of politics and progress…

(c) K Wicks