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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
Also in 1970, in New York City, a similar computer was blown away. This computer center was, however, on the 20th floor of a modern building overlooking Manhattan. No one knows what that computer did for a living. Perhaps the Madison caper stimulated the Manhattan explosion. Perhaps one was planned by an intellectual with some computer background and the other was an an irrational, almost random, ELECTR0- ASSASINATION. Still the computer is not the wizard behind the computer, the computer does not mythologize itself, only humans can think in mythological terms. Lenny Bruce once said: “Don’t demonstrate against the Policeman. No matter how ferocious he looks he’s only the Mailman, he’s still taking orders from somebody!”
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