IN a world of technology how much of it is for the benefit of mankind or how much it hindrance? I asked this question in a wake of Obama care and will it rely on today's technology or not? And can we trust these Progressives with it? How much of these smart devices do we need to stay alive and when do we need to place a stop sign and tell out engineers they maybe violating our rights? It is not to far in the future that someone will be able to tract you jut by entering a ID number and then suddenly we appear on he screen telling us where we are and what we are doing.
We are becoming everyday less able to stop these type of evasion with advances in tracking technologies coming at an ever-faster rate. Of course, this has larger implications than just losing ourselves in a vase tech evolution. It could make our lives less and less valuable in a larger sense. With Obama care we could become less valuable with a card that has all our medical information on it, embed in our license or passport. The whole concept is frightening to this blogger and yet we are most likely going to have to accept it as a tool to best protect ourselves in a world where we can be killed by terrorist.
Today, I was watching the movie “Logan’s Run it dawn on me how close we are to decided who lives and who dies in this country. In fact it seems that we have or will already made that decision. This technology could make it easier to do so with the capability to already decide you fake with the government declaring you are non reversible and declaring the cost in treating you be to expensive!
Does this sound like science fiction, well maybe, It does seem that when you look at science fiction, you become aware of how close we are to it. Walt Disney once said it you can dream it , it most likely become a reality. Well how close are we to something like Logan’s Run or 1984 or for that matter Animal Farm?
In Logan's Run the Book depicts a dystopian future society in which population and consumption of resources is managed and maintained in equilibrium by the simple expedient of demanding the death of everyone upon reaching a particular age thus avoiding the issue of overpopulation. In doing the chip in their hand would change color preparing their way to the after life after the ripe old age of 21 and embed chip in their hands would suddenly without notice tell them that the they are ready to be slaughter, by order of the Government.
Logan the main character in this book discovering that he too would be asked to in effect commit suicide because his time had come, for the common good, to make room for another to take his place. A elaborate ceremony then takes place where the condemn would be sent away to the afterlife, by means of some sort of laser. We have not come to that as of yet, in our society we just throw them into trash bags after killing them and incinerate them.
As far fetch as this book may seem, some aspects of this seem more realistic in the course where we are about to enter this new brave new world of Obama. We have devalued the life of close to 50 million babies, and some of the excuses are that the poor babies would not get the love they deserve, so in effect we kill them to prevent them from not being loved or having chance to be loved? How screw up is our society when not loving someone becomes a need to killing them?
As bad as this sounds there is a movement to devalue the life of the elderly as well. It all comes down to wondering how long one must wait for science fiction to become less fiction and more reality. Of course the Progressives in our society feel that a devalued life is worth killing. Hence, Obama care would devalue the elderly by withholding care to save money. It would also force the elderly to report to the local government psychologist to determine if he or she is still a value to society? Certainly you wouldn't want them to burden the family and so having them commit suicide, like in Logan's Run seems reasonable, to a Progressive?
If you can read someones ID without him taking it out of his pocket, can we them assume that someone either the very young or very old are not worth saving? The modern progressives these days are so willing to let Government do for them what the individual should be for themselves. Unlike the Nazi Progressives of old a card that can be read could help them eliminate people who have become less worthy of saving. Hitler got it all wrong when he started killing people in the death camps when this technology would be so much easier!
Are we becoming more depended on our technology? Yes we are! Can this lead us to disaster? Certainly! More over, the health care proposal with the Government knowing all and embedding a chip with all your information on it, can become a far worst in evasion of our privacy than we all know. Well much to my dislike we are about to head towards that brave world where we have to determine what is life and what isn’t, we have already determine that life suddenly becomes life when a child is born and then it is a crap shoot to determine what it is when life ends, either by the Government rationing care or outright with holding care and allowing someone to died. Makes one wonder how far this can go, and what of the developmentally delay and handicapped? Can we assume their lives will be expendable as well?
Thomas Jefferson once said that Government can be a obedient servant or a fearful master, I wondering how fearful one would feel if you can be tract, can be told your not worthy to live? Is that something you can be fearful of?
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