Words of internet censorship have been buzzing around the internet for sometimes. For people who are not familiar with One World Government conspiracy, SOPA and PIPA are just the beginning. The crooks behind this massive covert organisation tend to employ compartmentalization; a practice that "limits to information to persons who directly need to know certain such information in order to perform certain tasks". That means, we only have to know what they need us to know. Who are they? They are the very same people who control our global media industries, toying around with our currency, mowing down innocent lives with artillery shells and gunfire in pretense of keeping the world peace; Illuminati. No introduction is needed.
People called me paranoid.
So what does this have to do with compartmentalization and internet censorship? Our lives revolve around the internet. Whatever information that we received through such a means will definitely shape the way we think based on our worldview, which by now may have expanded greatly due to the latter. Censoring internet will surely have detrimental effects to community as a whole. People connect easily with each other through social networking site such as Facebook and Twitter. What happened during the Arab Spring taught many global superpowers a valuable lesson, that people will not stop from keeping in touch with each other as long as internet is accessible. Therefore, the rogue authorities have attempted to resurrect SOPA and PIPA in order to limit the flow of information to people around the world. This is scary because about four to five years ago, there have been rumors that internet will be taken down by the US government. Alex Jones has mentioned this on one of his talk shows. And that was about a few before this whole thing started to occur.
In essence, the US government do not like you gaining insights on your own; they want you to accept their version of politically correct information. That is so painfully obvious. People who stand for nothing, will fall for anything. Having said that, it will be very easy for the players to toggle the joystick and push the buttons whenever they want and however they want. Do you honestly think that we are all free enough to live in this world? No. The chip embedded on our identity card and passport say it all. We have all been fooled from the start. We have now become too attached to money and money, makes the world go round. Gold worth hell a lot more than paper currency. That is fact. That is why the bandits at Wall Street keep on printing paper. We cannot live without it no matter how much we try to deny it. We just can't. We have plastic. We shop and we shop until we drop. By the end of the month, headaches starts to kick in as unpaid bills come crashing onto your heads. The rich becomes richer, and the poor stays in the gutter. Loan and interest; the greatest nemesis of many Bruneians so far. One cannot survive without loans.
To supplement our growing needs to survive, education is imperative. Since it is free here in Brunei (we students are even paid for to study), this opportunity should never go to waste. There are people who born with silver spoon on the mouth, but others may be less fortunate yet are still able to feed themselves. Somehow there are those who have everything they need but refused to be schooled for whatever reasons. Forever they will be perpetuated in wretched ignorance unless they push themselves to stop fooling around and start studying.
From internet censorship to conspiracy theories, to money and education. See something in common? The difference is knowing what you know while restraining yourself from dismissing things that lurk behind the shadow. Fact or fiction, there are truth and lies in between and lies, are the most convincingly hidden between two truths. Life is all about learning new things and honing the already existing skills we have at our disposal. Connect the dot and you will see the spot, where it was once dark and the light was not.
Can you imagine a world without internet while you keep telling yourself that money is good? Can't help but ask; are we slaves?
I tend to be a bit more optimistic. Look at Burma -- it seems to be becoming freer. Look at Eastern Europe and South America -- all the dictatorships are gone. Look at the Middle East -- some of the dictatorships are now disappearing (well, let's hope they are).
ReplyDeleteSOPA and POPA are ill-conceived laws; but they won't stop the freedom of information. Sure, they will try. But they will fail.
And if you are concerned about spending so much, and the headache it gives you at the end of the month, then don't spend so much! I almost never buy anything from shops. Why should I? I dislike shopping intensely. So I buy groceries, but almost nothing else. I don't need anything else. I also eat at home every day, because I don't like the food in restaurants. And I don't understand why more people don't make these choices. It makes life simple.
It's always a matter of change, where good shall triumph over evil. The people are responsible in making changes to themselves and to the community on a global scale. There's a good and bad side of everything. The same goes with democracy. After all, it's politics.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely people will get around SOPA and PIPA. This is a bad analogy but look at how often drug traffickers tried to come up with new methods of smuggling their smack undetected. They get caught in the end but the moral is to keep on trying. If one person objects against the internet censorship laws, it may not make any difference. If hundreds of million people are taking actions in solidarity, the bills will be put to rest and there is no way to stop the public from getting the information they need.
As for the money matters, a lot of people here are unaware, save for a few, that their habit of overspending on unnecessary things will get them into trouble. It has something to do with the culture around here. I buy things that I need (sometimes don't) but a lot of people buy something they want. Life is simple, people make it complicated