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So you’ve been trying to connect the dots between NFTs, deplatforming, populist uprisings, inflation and morbid obesity? Here you go.
Herewith, signs of the coming Apocalypse, brought to you by the elites, the blue-check Twitter crowd and others who skipped Critical Thinking 101 back in college:
• Does anyone in their right mind think that the non-fungible token craze has legs? I figured it had jumped the shark when a link in my news feed—don’t judge me here—spotlighted a young Instagram model who be selling a package of 10 “exclusive” photos of herself in various stages of undress as NFTs. Really? Keanu Reeves, better known for acting than investment advice, wryly noted that any NFT visible on-line can likely be right-clicked and copied. And if it’s not visible to the masses, what’s the inherent value of said imagery? This one smells like Dutch tulips must have back in 1636.
• Some white people may choose the original yellow thumbs-up emoji because it feels neutral, the network opines, “but some academics argue opting out of (a white-hand image) signals a lack of awareness about white privilege, akin to society associating whiteness with being raceless.” The best thing I can say about that, since I helped fund the NPR report with tax dollars, is that the push to identify racial slights must be running out of ammo. Emoji colors? I say again: Really?
• I’m old enough to remember Ronald Reagan’s Misery Index, the sum of interest rates and inflation rates in the early 1980s. It was not a pretty time. Read recently where something like 40 percent of all the dollars ever printed in the United States rolled off the press in the first year of the pandemic. More followed in 2021, a year that saw the highest inflation rates since Reagan’s index debuted. I understand the whole “correlation-is-not-causation” thing, but can someone explain to me how that trend is going to reverse with another $1.2 trillion emerging from thin air with current spending proposals in Washington?
A society that rejects critical thinking and an appreciation for the concept of cause and effect is in trouble.
• I understand Bill Gates will be out with a book in May, gracing the plebiscite with “the lessons we can learn” from the current pandemic, and outlining the steps to prevent a repeat. Hard pass on reading that. Perhaps Microsoft’s founder would do well to do some reading himself, starting with the late Michael Crichton. The Jurassic Park author routinely wrote about mankind’s hubris—and the thinking that nature can be controlled if the really smart people are in charge. Or, in the immortal words of Dr. Serizawa in “Godzilla” (the 2104 version): “The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control … and not the other way around.”
• Not being a consumer of network news, I can’t speak to the level of coverage being directed at the trucker’s protests over government over-reach in Canada, regarding vaccine mandates in particular. This strikes me as both a profound moment in populism, and as odd, because I’ve read that something on the order of 90 percent of those same truckers have already been vaccinated. Now there are efforts to recreate convoys to Washington, Paris and other capitals. Tip to elected leadership not named Justin Trudeau: Don’t go to Def-Con 1 by describing your critics as racists and Nazis. You’re adding coal to the fire.
• Is anyone else troubled by the emerging socio-economic barriers being constructed by tech giants (by denying a platform for certain speech), the financial sector (deplatforming certain industries and causes) and law enforcement? Saw a video recently of a police officer visiting a private home to pass out literature on “peaceful protests” because the homeowner had either visited, shared, linked to or posted on a Facebook site being monitored by police. I would ask someone in favor of such policies to identify an example of whereby a nation or a society has thrived with two distinct, competing classes social and financial. I can promise you: This will not end well.
• This just in: A cast member from “My 600-Pound Life” has died at the age of 30. I guess I’m not surprised that someone with that kind of health challenge has died early. I’m trying to figure out the business model that makes production of a show with that theme profitable. Who comes up with this stuff?
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