Showery thoughts

He asked me: “Do you think conformity (as in following certain thought process, idea, fashion, be it scientific, social or religious) can be considered as brain wash or thought control?”. I was baffled, I did not know what to say, and at that point, I did not want to argue, to be frank, I just wanted to lay back and listen to this disturbed fading image of a man. He continued: “Media, advertisements, religious and political institutions all bombard us unconsciously with certain images, and ideas that makes us believe that this is the norm, this is the right, this is how should it be, and this is what you should believe. You do not have to think anymore (and of course not critically), just follow blindly, because they know better, and they want the better for us. Follow the heard, or you will be shunned, and you do not want that, it became inherited in us that we think we want to be part of this cog, we believe we want to belong, to be liked, to strive for others acceptance. It b...

Ok don't know where to start from. What is life? Which life? One self's life? The life of all people all together, all living things?  The thing is, everything is connected, one can not consider his life alone. I believe or I like to believe that decisions we make affect all of us all together, one way or the other. Still, what is life? My own idea will be picturesque as I like to visualize things. For me life can be just sitting in front of a lake in a sunny winter day. It can be the moment when you step at the highest point of a mountain. It can be free roaming in the night at a very highly populated city. It can be the feeling of a gentle breath of fresh air, it can be the sound of the ocean. The traffic in the morning, and the complete utter silence of the night. It can be the good well deserved night sleep. It can be the break of a sweet while runing across the street while singing like a euphoric teenager. It can be a kiss goodbye. It can be a flight back home. It can be ...

Do you think a totalitarian big brother regime that controlls big data and information with the new networking engineering possibilities as 5G will be the ordinary model for governance?  Data is both a national security as well as a personal matter. Preserving it should be constitutional on the national level, and people (the owner of the data) should be the only controller of it, making sure it is well preserved.  With the upcoming 5G and the great bandwidth and between 40 to 100 times faster then 4G possibilities it offer, your control over your private information and data will not be any more a privilege, you are out their virtually naked. Of course, 5G will bring us great advantages that we would have never thought, convienance like you never imagined. Yet with this futuristic fantastic era we are about to embark, comes a great responsibility of protection our data. The problem is, when governments install a nation wide firewall -as a way of national security and personal...