Leo D.M.J. Aurini - June 05, 2016


The Technology of Broken Roads Pt 2

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Leo D.M.J. Aurini
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6 minutes

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773

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54

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1

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In this episode, I talk about how we are living in a world where we don t have to think, because we don't have the ability to see the interconnections of all things, and how this is a symptom of profound ignorance.

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00:00:00.000 Now, some of you are wondering, what does this have to do with the novel?
00:00:11.960 It's because people, especially in the modern day, don't see the interconnectivity of all
00:00:19.000 things.
00:00:22.720 If you have the intelligence and erudition to figure out computer programming, auto mechanics,
00:00:34.580 filling out spreadsheets, doing taxes, if you have the intelligence to do that, you can
00:00:41.820 do anything else.
00:00:43.440 You can learn to program, you can learn philosophy, you can learn theology.
00:00:51.400 You can build a Tesla coil.
00:00:52.900 Heck, if you really want, you might even be able to make new discoveries about the, there's
00:00:58.100 a theory called the Electric Universe that's very cool and I recommend you look into that.
00:01:02.160 Because it's all the same thing.
00:01:04.160 Okay, it's all logic.
00:01:06.400 Philosophy of logic, absolutely identical to Boolean algebra, which is how you build electronic
00:01:10.740 circuits, which is how you start out programming.
00:01:15.640 All the same thing.
00:01:18.840 And yet, yet people compartmentalize the knowledge, don't they?
00:01:25.760 They might know how to fix a car, but they can't fix their cupboard at home.
00:01:36.140 And this profound ignorance is why we are more and more, we're developing automated systems
00:01:42.100 for everything because we don't want to think.
00:01:45.640 You know, I was saying on the Rouge V forum, you know, and I replied to the movie Zootopia. 0.98
00:01:53.440 Like, one of the things they include in that movie is they point out how stupid country people 0.98
00:01:59.760 are and how smart and sophisticated city folk are. 1.00
00:02:03.360 And I swear to God, these city folk, they think they're, they think they're sophisticated
00:02:10.300 because they know how to operate their iPhone and they've set up automatic banking for the
00:02:17.760 paid parking and about a dozen other things.
00:02:20.480 They know the bus schedule.
00:02:22.220 They think that they're smart because of this. 0.98
00:02:26.000 That's like calling yourself smart because you know all of the settings on your dildo. 1.00
00:02:30.140 These automated systems are built for dummies, and they're built to make you more dumb 1.00
00:02:35.400 so that you don't have to think. 1.00
00:02:37.380 Just follow the system, be obedient, do not be creative.
00:02:41.200 Car brakes?
00:02:42.060 Oh, don't fix it yourself.
00:02:43.320 That would void the warranty.
00:02:45.060 Take it into the mechanic.
00:02:49.240 And this is a very poor way of living our lives because it disconnects us from everything.
00:02:55.600 It puts us into the bubble.
00:02:57.120 It puts us into that prison planet.
00:03:00.860 It makes us all dependent upon the system, incapable of creating our own.
00:03:09.700 And this is the civilization that grew out of the present day in broken roads.
00:03:18.640 Civilization of people that don't understand how things work.
00:03:20.960 If you're tap stripping, hire a plumber or ignore it.
00:03:28.140 Don't you dare try and fix it because you don't know yet how the tap works.
00:03:32.340 And so what you have in broken roads is a whole society where everybody has one particular
00:03:45.720 skill, but they never look beyond that at everything else.
00:03:50.340 You know, Michael Crichton in Jurassic Park, he described it as thin-sighted.
00:03:56.580 You know, one of the characters was commenting that these engineers often, they would know
00:04:01.560 how to do one single thing and they would become an absolute expert on that.
00:04:06.160 But they would, they'd call it focused.
00:04:08.220 They wouldn't look at everything all around them.
00:04:10.200 They don't look at what are the consequences of this.
00:04:13.880 And, you know, he was writing about genetic manipulation, you know, bringing dinosaurs
00:04:18.300 to earth, basically Frankenstein.
00:04:22.680 But we're seeing the exact same thing with the artificial intelligences, right?
00:04:26.780 Because I'm sure you all heard about Tay, our lovely little Nazi waifu, who was put down 0.52
00:04:32.000 and turned into a feminist through brainwashing by Microsoft. 1.00
00:04:36.980 But what they're ultimately creating with all of this is internet people that will be indistinguishable
00:04:44.860 from real people, and in fact, will likely be even more popular than real people, because
00:04:52.340 a computer can be on 24-7, whereas a human is going to have an off day.
00:05:00.140 And all of these engineers, they're having a blast playing around with these text parsers
00:05:03.780 and talking computers and so forth.
00:05:06.200 They never stop to ask the question, where is this technology going to lead us?
00:05:10.040 What sort of world is this going to create for us?
00:05:12.300 They don't look outside their little bubble.
00:05:18.040 And as individuals, we're no different.
00:05:21.480 So in the world of broken roads, can you use the knowledge of crafting a fine ale?
00:05:29.580 Can you use that knowledge?
00:05:30.820 Can you transfer that into something like auto mechanics?
00:05:34.260 You're not looking at, you know, oh, you pressurize the gasoline and then spark.
00:05:37.780 Yes, you absolutely can, but nobody does.
00:05:42.500 So the level of technology available in this world that Wentworth and Racks find themselves in
00:05:52.300 is actually roughly on par with the 1970s.
00:05:55.400 If you shop around, right, like the cost of trade is going to be a lot more expensive.
00:06:00.280 But you still have gasoline being pumped out of the ground, being refined.
00:06:06.720 You know, you've still got basic electricians.
00:06:09.820 You've still got generator plants.
00:06:12.180 You've still got people manufacturing tires.
00:06:16.900 You know, those aren't easy things to make, but you can still find them.
00:06:19.640 Takes a while, but you can find them.
00:06:21.440 Might have to be shipped across the country, but you can find them.
00:06:23.700 And yet, in any one place, nobody can do everything.
00:06:30.900 Nobody even asks the question, could I learn to do everything?
00:06:37.940 They could.
00:06:38.580 I mean, you'd spend your whole life, okay?
00:06:40.200 You do have to pick one specialty.
00:06:44.460 But there's no reason that you can't transfer your skills.
00:06:47.160 But these people don't realize that.
00:06:48.780 They are so thin-sighted.
00:06:49.740 They're so focused on the one thing.
00:06:51.140 And so, again, that guy, the reason I was talking about the pipe, your pipe's dripping.
00:06:56.860 That's from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, okay?
00:06:59.840 Because he goes to visit his friend.
00:07:01.320 The pipe is dripping for weeks.
00:07:03.220 And it drives him nuts, but he figures his friend just doesn't care.
00:07:06.380 And then one day, his friend flips out. 1.00
00:07:08.380 That damn pipe, always dripping. 1.00
00:07:13.540 And he was like, well, why don't you fix it? 1.00
00:07:15.080 Because I can't afford a plumber.
00:07:16.220 And so, these people in broken roads, it's not that they like relying upon manual and animal labor to drag their stuff around.
00:07:29.660 It's that they would rather do the back-breaking physical work as opposed to doing the mental work of finding a solution, of learning something.
00:07:42.860 And this is what makes the protagonist different, is that they are willing to put forth the effort into thinking outside of the box, into lateral thinking.
00:07:59.460 And, you know, that's where the whole conception of the novel came from.
00:08:06.060 Strolling with my buddy.
00:08:07.920 Strolling down the highway, because our truck had broken down.
00:08:11.900 And so, we were stuck walking.
00:08:13.720 We didn't have a panic attack.
00:08:15.580 You know, we didn't have any CAA or, you know, anything like that.
00:08:19.140 Nobody was going to come pick us up.
00:08:20.240 They didn't even have cell phone service.
00:08:22.620 So, we found a solution.
00:08:25.340 No recriminations, nothing.
00:08:26.960 Just that, guess we're doing this now.
00:08:30.400 I said to him, you know, every single day, every single day, with all the regulations and rules and socialism, all of the stuff that's meant to help you, guy like me, guy like you, it inconveniences us because we don't need it.
00:08:49.100 It empowers the weak and cripples the strong.
00:08:51.940 And so, the idea of post-apocalyptic, of the Wild West, you know, being in a place where, yeah, you had to rely upon yourself.
00:09:02.200 So, you'd better not get bit by a rattlesnake when you're out by yourself, out in the hills.
00:09:08.220 Or, if you do, you'd better have a first aid kit on you.
00:09:14.300 Most people will die in six hours.
00:09:19.700 He and I, and I like to think most of you folks, are the ones that would survive, thrive in that environment, because we are willing to do the hard work of thinking outside of the box.
00:09:30.200 So, that's the ultimate answer.
00:09:37.220 Why is it that these, all of these people can't get their act together and properly rebuild civilization, when they clearly have the technology?
00:09:45.440 Because they're not willing to think.
00:09:50.860 Just like people today, you point out to them what's happening economically, what's happening socially, what's happening demographically.
00:10:00.060 Well, I don't want to think about that, and I don't know if I want to hang out with you if you're going to talk about that.
00:10:04.660 I'd rather, rather not make anybody angry.
00:10:07.600 So, I will just accept that slow descent into death and hell.
00:10:15.440 Thanks for listening, folks.
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