As you know, I keep a number of groups of computer programmers busy making me money in businesses you have no business knowing what they're there for.
Most of the programs never see the light of day, working behind the scenes to gather data for me to discern not only how the people are being bamboozled but also which people are doing the bamboozling (as well as those doing the boozing at BAM (the Board of Ameliorating Meticulators annual meeting)).
As scientists, we carefully set up controls and test cases to ensure our premises are promising.
In a recent experiment, I asked my programmers to create an app that would quietly pop up in cultures not familiar with apps.
And once again I was surprised by the results.
Did you know the world is divided into separate Internets? That the World Wide Web is not worldwide? The Web is truly a web that traps and ensnares you, holding you for the spider's next meal as the spider creeps through regions of the world looking for new and excitingly exotic treats?
All this time I thought I had a complete handle on who ruled other countries but, based on the preliminary results of the recent experiment, I am completely wrong.
The botnets we had discovered earlier are more advanced than I thought, capturing and recreating whole friend networks, able to simulate friends' and local news' output so that individual manipulation gets easier and easier with each regeneration of the botnet software routines.
We are being convinced that things we didn't say or write to others but that others believe we said and wrote are actually what we said and wrote.
You think you told your friends you went to work/school and your business associates and school colleagues believe you were there with them but in fact you were driven to a training facility and given a set of instructions you vaguely remember as something you learned when you were a child with your trusted network of schoolmates, teachers and family.
You go back to work/school and talk about it. Your friends read your new line of reasoning on the friend network and suddenly are telling others it's what they, too, have believed all along.
This, while they are having their own out-of-network retraining sessions when you think they are telecommuting or "sick" for the day because you were conversing with their botnet characters online during the work/school day, exchanging information with them that only they could know.
But who is managing the retraining sessions?
Why, you are, of course. You and your friends and associates are part of the program, don't you know?
It's a system we naturally hide from ourselves because we can't see what we're doing.
Feedback loops within feedback loops.
Those who think they are not part of the system think they're not part of the system because they know they don't participate even though by denying their participation they are participating.
Those who don't know the system exists are part of the system because the system is part of the universe and we're all part of the universe, are we not?
And there are always people who believe this line of reasoning because no matter how much you tell them it is a humourous poke at conspiracy theories, they'll never believe you, assuming you're just another part of the system, brainwashed as you are to believe you're not part of any system.
What do you believe?
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