Why Does the World React to Major Events in Unison Now?
Why Does the World React to Major Events in Unison Now?
All over Japan and the world we were/are being told to Social Distance due to the Corona Virus. There are signs everywhere in Tokyo written in English telling people to Practice Social Distancing. This is perhaps the fastest roll-out of an English campaign done in the history of Japan.
The Social Distancing English signage has been so accurate Engrish.com is probably taking a stock market hit.
This English is accurate and not readily exploitable by visiting Gaijins looking for an engrish.com scoop
At the drop of a bureaucrat's hat "Social Distance" became a global slogan.
Imagine sloganizing the world. "Netizens" are told to be careful! DO NOT spread fake news or fuel conspiracy theories! However, the ideas spread on social networks by us lowlifes are usually only responded to by a couple of drunk haters interacting with our awesome content somewhere on a device made in China. All of the access to the world and nobody really cares.
Yay.
Yet Social Distance took over the world in the blink of a politician's eye.
Everyone Everywhere Suddenly Even Me:
"Yes, we will do Social Distancing to Flatten the Curve. No COVID-19 over here! We're all in this together!"
But then…
At the end of May 2020 in Minneapolis an African-American citizen was killed in the street by an officer.
Public Execution.
Most called it racism. A few said misconduct. I don't recall anyone being happy about it. Everyone seemed shocked by the horror.
In the viral aftermath, crowds gathered, protested, and burned down what seemed to be at least 24% of America.
And now the citizen journalists documenting the chaos are asking me to subscribe to their Instagram live streams.
Haha No.
When the protests started, the following Social Distance Enforcement stopped:
Media reports scolding citizens for going to the parks
Officers arresting families for relaxing in their backyards
AI-Camera equipped drones flying around checking groups for potential COVID temperatures
—> Worldwide <— & —> Immediate <—
Did the media, police, and surveillance drones instead turn their tax-hungry eyes and scold the protestors, rioters and vloggers that appeared out of the ether in the aftermath of the public execution in Minneapolis?
For some reason no.
The virus that knew no borders decided to take a break when faced with the gooey specter of racism.
Trust the science!
Am I supposed to get with the program? Count me out. Stop trying to hijack my mind with tragedy.
IS IT SAFE?
IS IT SAFE? IS IT SAFE? IS IT SAFE? IS IT SAFE?
I try to keep an even keel and mind my own beeswax. The last thing I want to do is spit on someone's face to protest the apparent Social Distancing nonsense. And while I understand the appeal of getting more Insta Subs by filming burning cars while race-fuelled mobs in the night scream at baton-wielding Peace Officers, I won't.
COVID-19 was/is (???) an international event which caused quite the global Social Distance pickle indeed, but the American Race War 2020 will probably not reach the shores of Japan seeing how Japan is well over 95% Japanese. There are around 12,000 Canadians in Japan. Not quite the numbers needed for a good old-fashioned Canadian Revolution.
So with a global release of something like Social Distancing, what is the after effect? In my case, Social Distancing is now Officially Implementable and the after-effects of its release remain in the real world. There are still benches and shop signs all over Tokyo with the perfectly written "Social Distancing" posters plastered everywhere. And there are probably people in bureaucracies who are now responsible for managing Social Distancing paraphernalia. Their Microsoft Excel skills are not to be wasted. And they need to be kept around to deal with the physical after-sludge of the next digitally inflamed crisis. The tech companies, seeing as how their product is wireless and without fingerprints, gets to move on without having to clean up the mess.
Some of the hottest real estate in Tokyo is still blocked off as of June 1 2020. Tokyo Midtown seen in the background.
Through these crises Big Tech companies get to add billions of dollars of value to their stock price somehow, and while Amazon and the lot vacuum up more segments of market share, local businesses suffer potential bankruptcy by being mandated to scare hopeful customers with a bunch of tacked-up crappy COVID posters. And if you want to sit on a bench with a loved one, you may have to do so with a MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCING poster staring at you in the face for decades to come.
Enjoy your free time, taxpayer, you've earned it.
I am ignoring the hysteria. Look at the facts, man. Most governments keep clean enough stats on their websites so I check those. I don't get involved in anything dumb, except bourbon. Most of the Antifas burning buildings and the Karens screaming about Social Distancing are steering teetering belief-ships built out of idiosyncratic contradictions fueled by smartphone tech. I bid them farewell. Buy the ticket. Take the ride.
I believe we can expect Big Tech and their political sponsors to continue to use the smartphone-addled populace as a training pool to iterate social algorithms while the panopticon of surveillance capitalism spreads.
As a Free Person, you can still choose where your dollar and time goes.
You can quarantine a group, but you cannot quarantine the mind.
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Local Resident or potential Agent Provacoteur? Using bags as Social Distance Enforcer. Also a potential Karen (カレン).