People are more than their data derivative

What happens when we quit the matrix?

One of my least favorite utterings, especially when directed towards me, was "get with the program!" It meant shut up and comply. In my youth, it was a phase coaches, teachers, and parents used on me whenever they perceived I was "out of line" in following their directive for my life. Fortunately for me, being sent to the principal's office more time than I can count, broke me of any notion that the "program" I was supposed to "get with" was in any way in my best interest. Our natural instincts are to be cautiously aware of our surroundings and treat all situations as a threat until we identify familiar safety relationships. "Get with the program" people simply mean to force acceptance to a plan prior to investigation. Yet, in my early elementary school years, explaining this basic human understanding to principal Lee fell on deaf ears.

Lately, I have not much heard "get with the program" in daily lexicon. Have the powers that wish to direct human behaviors simply given up? Have we reach a level of civility and peaceful understanding of our neighbor that prodding individuals to "get with the program" has now become superfluous? Has Western civilization evolved towards enlightened nirvana, where philosopher kings have finally found their perch at the top of today's power structures, and we no longer need fear what evil lurks in the bushes? Unfortunately, no, we were cast out of that idyllic place long ago. Although the sweet taste of knowledge sates seekers of truth’s appetites, when best applied it, only gives mere glimpses of a return to Eden - the place the praying faithful aspire to spend eternity.

If "get with the program" is not with our leaders now, where did it go? It went digital. Instead of using words to coerce people into compliance, the digital sphere does the work now. The old one-on-one PSYOP approach of isolating individuals from the group to "reeducate" them towards the program has been replace by a much more efficient and sinister digital battling ram. AI, combined with deviously designed algorithms, scour the internet unduly promoting "correct" program thoughts that bend society towards Fabian Society like compliance and isolates "wrong" thoughts placing them in undiscoverable recesses of digital dungeons. And in the dark recesses of the internet do those thoughts remain, until the thinker "gets with the program" and spews forth the correct thoughts of controlling class ideology.

For the behaviorists, the advent of the internet was a dream come true. Prior to the little indispensable electronic screen in the hands of billions of "sophisticated" western populations, coercion was a one-on-one game. Who are the behaviorists? They are the people who study human behavior and believe that micro and macro behavioral decisions are predictable based on individual experience. They believe that all individuals, given the same conditions, will respond in the same manner to those experiences. In a sense, true behaviorists believe that no free will exist and that humans are conditional responding creatures. Thus, for behaviorists, they praise managing the conditions of people’s lives verses teaching ontology and discussing the topic of eschatology. Get the conditions of life in order (get with the program) say the behaviorist, and the people will respond accordingly.

The internet is run by behaviorists. Type “hiking boots” just once into a Google search engine and for the next month, hiking boot ads flood the little indispensable electronic screen. Once, I found myself in need of a new toilet seat and search the web on options for replacement. For over a month, toilet seat ads filled my internet feeds. I not sure how many toilet seats the internet gods thought I needed as I was hit with ad frequency of a junky, but I only needed one. To be sure, there are no random occurrences on the internet, if a positive or negative event hits an individual feed, some behaviorist overlord planned for that to happen. Everything on the internet is a PSYOP because the behaviorists that run the show believe that humans are conditional creatures and will all respond the same way when presented with the same circumstances.

This is what the expert behaviorists think. But, if humans are so predictable, why do the experts of predicting get so much wrong? The poling experts had Hillary Clinton handily winning the 2016 presidential election. The economists, at least the ones not running cover for the Fed, predicted we would be in a recession by now. Sociologists predicted work from home would be the new norm post-Covid, yet WFH has returned to near pre-pandemic levels. The experts get it wrong because, despite what the behaviorists believe, when humans play the game for real, their actions yield unpredictable results.

Despite evidence to the contrary, humans are thinking creatures. And because thinking is the antithesis of conditionally responding to situations, the result of any one thinking event cannot be predicted by the experts. Social engineers, even if they could get the conditions of community in perfect harmony with their socialist desires could not stop people from thinking about alternative solutions to the same planned conditioning event.

A better course of action for the improvement of our human condition is to promote thinking. Too long have we been toiling under the Darwinian notion that our existence is mere evolutionary responses to earthly conditions. To regain the freedoms Nature and Nature’s God intended for us, we must reject the “get with the program” crowd. We should become wary of internet information because it has not appeared before us by chance. The feeds we experience have be planted by troves of behaviorist ever seeking to forge the world into their image instead of seeking to emulate a world in God’s image. For it is much better to think I am under God’s everlasting Love and forgiving care then to believe that I am the derivative of my internet data footprint. And, as long as I am capable of that kind of thought, no internet conditioning will have any power over my way of thinking.