AMERICAN CONFORMITY FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE: BIG TECH IS FILLING OUR CHILDREN'S TABULA RASA
Vol. I | Issue. 31 | September 27, 2021
John Locke, a physician philosopher (1632-1704), was one of the foundational thinkers of the Enlightenment.
Based upon the emergence of the scientific discoveries and broader widows of thought that had emerged after the renaissance of Art, Science, and the discovery of the "New World”, Locke, along with other Enlightenment thinkers, understood that the potential of man to map his own course in life, rather than suffer a predetermined fate, was increasingly possible.
Locke’s idea was that reason combined with one’s own actions could have an impact on human outcomes. The existing determinist view prior to Locke’s thesis was that one’s ultimate fate was baked into the cake from birth. This idea while taken for granted today was foundational to the American Revolution.
Locke postulated that while the government was necessary, it should serve as a means by which society had a “social contract” with its ruling structure. This social contract was the tacit understanding that government was there largely to protect civil society while allowing its citizenry to prosper and flourish in safety and security. This social contract only exists where systems of governance are chosen and may be dissolved by its citizens. As we all know there is no social contract between despots and totalitarians.
One of Locke’s fundamental theories is that of tabula rasa, which is translated into a clean slate. Locke believed that infants were born into the world without thought or preconceived notions or knowledge of the past. He postulated that the human mind was filled and formed through the absorption of knowledge and experience of the individual, and was not in any way formed by what came before birth and exposure to the world. Locke’s theory did not eliminate the possibility that there could be certain hereditary traits that could be transferred, just that the fundamental exposures of life’s teachings and experience would fill the void and create the potential for individual life outcomes.
In other words, the blacksmith’s son wasn't destined to be a blacksmith because he was born with a blacksmith’s brain.
On the eve of the American Revolution, King George didn’t quite see it that way.
In those days, a blacksmith stayed a blacksmith, a King stayed a King, and a Colony stayed a Colony. The idea of tabula rasa was revolutionary and dangerous. Kings don't like the idea of people thinking for themselves, and neither does the 21st-century American ruling class. As discussed in past writings, our ruling class is comprised of Big Tech, The American Pravda, The Democrat Industrial Complex, The Academic “Elite” and various strata of Social “Elite”. Two hundred and forty-five years after the American Revolution, tabula rasa still exists, but it only lasts for a vanishing second after a child is born.
The chief instrument of the American ruling class for the enforcement of its conformist culture is Big tech. Big tech, through its ubiquitous presence, begins the process of gathering information about every baby born in America. This immediate and omniscient collection of data is utilized to create products, services, and programming that will steer early childhood behaviors and thought beginning at infancy, through childhood adolescence, and across the full expanse of life. Big tech has created a world in which they fill that tabula rasa with whatever serves their interests to create what amounts to a human cyborg.
What is their chief objective when filling that tabula rasa? To create a conformist culture that will perfectly align with their interests leading to the extirpation of all independent thought.
Anyone who has regular contact with young children sees how consistently and adroitly, they are connected with technology. Infants know better than Pavlov’s dog that the ringtone of a text is a demand for immediate attention. Toddlers watch all of their programs on some form of a tech device, and while they watch, they are being watched…
Every child now has a "Big Brother" who is watching them while they are watching it. I guess that means there is no such thing as an only child anymore.
Big tech, The Democrat Industry Complex, and The American Pravda, are in the process of creating an America that demands a monolithic conformist, "progressive" (Marxist) way of thought-action and conduct by every American.
Technology is now the instrument through which the tabula rasa that we and our children are programmed. If we do not find a way to fill that tabula rasa without Big Brother, our independence, sovereignty, and individuality as Americans and independent free-thinking people will soon vanish, and that is not The American Way.
-Emes