Static Live Magazine December 2020

way to view the world is to see all events as
systems within themselves without interpretation
from a computer or a guru.
So we see that a computerized society can
improve or uplift or alienate even those who
make it run. Yet, when people finally understand
the source of their alienation they tend to go back
to respecting one another being compassionate
and acting like the natural animals we really are.
The alienated man or woman, the solemn
unloving human being can be likened to an old
digital computer. This kind of computer does
nothing but move data, swiftly and coldly from
one pile to another.
The objective human being who appears to be
cold but who is capable of loving and giving
can be likened to an analog computer. This
kind of computer is able to sense things, smell
and touch things and then if programmed in an
enlightened way make basic decisions. Callous
hostility, glibness, and pathological behavior
betray alienation as an internalized process. This
mass rejection of electronic reality is misplaced
aggression because the real source cannot be
found. The people who have made a marginal
adjustment to technology keep a good machine
distance away from those unable to accept or
understand the “tricks of the electronic trade”.
This is clearly demonstrated. Many of the
“computer haves” view the “computer have nots”
as a food source just as a lion eyes a herd of
gazelle. There is, however, a small and emerging
daze of humans who deal with computers and
technology on an everyday basis and have
managed to make a lucky leap. They are neither
poor nor hostile nor glued to their radar ranges
and OLED television. This is the New-Bohemian
Technology, hip ‘snowflakes’ making their way by
feeling the vibes, while not fearing electricity.
crisis has forced us to grow up, evolve, be kinder
to one another. Because of the Pandemic,
misplaced hostility towards computers can be
seen quite clearly in two rather striking examples
of computer sabotage which were manifestations
of the general reign of anti-tech sabotage that
started in the mid-sixties.
In 1970, someone blew away a computer center
in Madison Wisconsin, located on the University
of Wisconsin campus. Not only was the computer
destroyed but the entire building was virtually
destroyed — whoever planted the charge was an
expert. One graduate student who happened to
be in the center was killed, but no one else was
injured and no other buildings were eliminated.
The computer and peripherals were fried to a
crisp—this was an estimated eight billion dollar
installation.
Though the federal investigators finally made
one arrest, the American press hushed up the
incident: Why? The answer is quite simple.
The building was the ARMY MATHEMATICS
BUILDING, which loosely translated means
MILITARY LOGISTICS COMPUTER. This
building housed a think-tank for military
operations. Yet, still, the computer itself is not
culpable for its existence, and blowing up the
computer center was merely an indirect variation
on the sugar-in-the-gas tank trick.
Whoever dosed us with the Virus, needs to be
thanked… sure it seems like Germ Warfare, and
part of an asymmetrical version of World War
III but maybe they are doing us a solid favor.
Whomever it was, the Virus