Men called “scientists” who were dedicated to understanding nature grew in numbers and strength. The greedy rich exploited what the scientists explored and discovered.
Humanity was like a child playing with new toys.
They made and played with many interesting toys that proved to be beneficial to mankind. Unfortunately many of these same toys, greedily used, proved to be very detrimental to mankind and to earth. And everything became easier, including wars and killings.
One very clever man called Gutenberg used the Mongolian invention of paper developed over 1,000 years before. He carved mirror images of the letters of the alphabet on lead blocks and aligned them to form text. He covered the blocks with ink and pressed their images on paper to print and mass produce indulgences that made him and the church very rich. He used his wealth to mass produce bibles that were written in Latin but except for a few priests, only a few people could read them.
The printing presses and the books they produced in local languages after Gutenberg died lighted and fired men's minds all over the world. Knowledge exploded and many thinking people began to think and to write books to protest their exploitation. Christians who protested and rejected their church leaders were called Protestants. Over the centuries they kept on protesting eventually forming thousands of separate groups. Over time the empires divided and gradually regrouped into smaller groups called nations.
Martin Luther was a priest who believed that sins cannot be bought off by buying indulgences. He used Gutenberg's old printing presses to print the bible into languages that could be read by the masses for the very first time. Many people started to feel that the luxurious temples filled with gold, statues and paintings of nude angels were not appropriate as churches.
Luther like many other priests of his time did not like to lead a celibate life. With time they protested, broke away from the church and became Protestants. They built their own less pretentious temples and traded the nude statues for wives. Luther tried to convert Jews to accept Jesus as their messiah and the more the Jews stubbornly refused to accept Jesus, the more Luther saw Jews as a cancer that must be eradicated. He printed many pamphlets calling for marking all Jews by making them wear a yellow armband. Later he even proposed burning their homes and called for their extermination. Books opened men to knowledge that lay buried waiting to be discovered.
One very clever man called Gutenberg used the Mongolian invention of paper developed over 1,000 years before. He carved mirror images of the letters of the alphabet on lead blocks and aligned them to form text. He covered the blocks with ink and pressed their images on paper to print and mass produce indulgences that made him and the church very rich. He used his wealth to mass produce bibles that were written in Latin but except for a few priests, only a few people could read them.
The printing presses and the books they produced in local languages after Gutenberg died lighted and fired men's minds all over the world. Knowledge exploded and many thinking people began to think and to write books to protest their exploitation. Christians who protested and rejected their church leaders were called Protestants. Over the centuries they kept on protesting eventually forming thousands of separate groups. Over time the empires divided and gradually regrouped into smaller groups called nations.
Martin Luther was a priest who believed that sins cannot be bought off by buying indulgences. He used Gutenberg's old printing presses to print the bible into languages that could be read by the masses for the very first time. Many people started to feel that the luxurious temples filled with gold, statues and paintings of nude angels were not appropriate as churches.
Luther like many other priests of his time did not like to lead a celibate life. With time they protested, broke away from the church and became Protestants. They built their own less pretentious temples and traded the nude statues for wives. Luther tried to convert Jews to accept Jesus as their messiah and the more the Jews stubbornly refused to accept Jesus, the more Luther saw Jews as a cancer that must be eradicated. He printed many pamphlets calling for marking all Jews by making them wear a yellow armband. Later he even proposed burning their homes and called for their extermination. Books opened men to knowledge that lay buried waiting to be discovered.
By 1500 the greed of mankind evolved to great heights. They were able to build and sail ships great distances. They used the Mongolian invention of the compass, developed nearly 2,000 years before, to be able to navigate far from shores and were able to find their way back home. One enterprising queen saw that she could exploit this new technology to discover new lands to exploit. She sent one poor brave man called Columbus to explore the world for new lands to exploit. Columbus discovered a continent filled with gold and fertile farm land. He conquered the land and called it America. Many poor pioneers sailed and settled to explore the land, but the land was too big and the workers too few to exploit it.
One greedy and rich businessman saw he can exploit this need for workers and bought many ships and started to trade slaves. He went into an old land called Africa, captured the black inhabitants, shipped them to America, and sold them to the white pioneers as slaves to farm the new land.
People started to move around like they were playing musical chairs. The Catholics pushed the Muslims out and the Protestants fled from the Catholics to the new lands that were being discovered. To fill the vacuum, the Muslims from Turkey formed the Ottoman Empire and pushed into Europe.
Great wealth was acquired and people sought to understand nature and their world so that they could exploit it and increase their wealth even more. With the many instruments available, people made machines that greatly extended their eyes, nose, ears, voice, arms and legs.
Between 1,600-1,900 there was an outburst of activity to uncover all of the secrets laid buried waiting to be found.
At around 1800 scientists in their quest to understand nature used machines to look into materials deeper. They detected a sea of invisible matter in metals called electrons which flowed in wire like water in a river. Just like they used waterfalls to turn waterwheels to turn machinery, they were able to eventually harness the flowing electrons like it was flowing water. Observing that the pressure of steam was much stronger than the pressure of flowing water, they were able to use fires instead of waterfalls to turn their machines around.
They put wheels on these new machines and they became mobile, transporting heavy objects to far away distances at high speeds. With the harnessing of electricity, scientists were able to make machines that didn't need fires or rivers.
More and more scientists made more and more machines that helped more and more men more and more. Everything got easier, faster, and cheaper. Machines got smaller and more powerful.
They put wings on these machines and man learned to fly and the world suddenly shrank. A few powerful people saw that with the ever shrinking world, and the ever growing piles of toys the scientists were playing with, they could convert these toys to weapons and use the weapons to demolish cities so that they could rebuild them in any way they wanted to. They took over all the banks and started printing as much money as it needed to keep the people alive and ready to fight to their death for a cause.
Indoctrination centers called schools were organized. Starting at an early age with kindergartens, children were removed from the tutelage and sanctity of families and from the exploitation of factories. They were cultivated under a program of brainwashing called education where they were programmed and trained to be obedient and skilled adult workers.
The tug of the newly available machines and the pull of the newly available music produced a dance that gave people the urge to be free and creative.
Humanity was like a dancing teenager.
By 1900 technology allowed Gutenberg's printing press to be taken over by a few who decided what the people who were able to read, what they read. Mass media was born. Technology also allowed manufacturing to be taken over by a few who formed corporations that supplied nations with weapons to fight costly wars with. Using mass media, they went after the people who had money to decide for them what they would buy. Consumerism was born. Mass media allowed people to form their own opinions, and people started to become more and more independent and individualistic. What people wanted became more important than what people needed. Individual wants became impossible to satisfy because mass production techniques required that people conform to want the same things. The wants of people varied and was governed by deeply rooted emotions rather than rational thinking.
The marketing departments of corporations started to psychoanalyze consumers to be able to better know what was wanted, and to be able to brainwash them to want to buy what they wanted to sell them. They used emotions of guilt, lust and greed to control the consumers`s buying desires. When technology allowed mass production of products that were able to be produced with customized options, then individuality and individual wants became to be embraced.
While the corporations were after maximizing profits, the politicians were after maximizing votes. The politicians saw the great success corporations were having with consumers, and they wanted to join them. They used emotions of fear, to sway their votes, either fear of loosing their freedom or fear of losing their money. The marketeers of politicians turned to brainwash the people using their rational intellectual parts of people's psychology. They used distraction of entertainment, sex, and sport.
When Gutenberg's printing press grew wings and escaped the grasp of mass media. It found refuge in the world wide network of information called the internet. People started to see the corruption of politicians and people were no longer able to fool their voters any longer. Devices were made so intelligent and powerful that they did all the thinking for people and people became too dumb to think for themselves.
Greedy and clever brains saw they could centralize and control the mass media and the messages they communicated to brainwash people to want and believe whatever they wanted them to want and believe. With their new mass media machines, people listened to and watched a lot of messages. In time it was seen that controlling people with the media was more effective than controlling them with fear. And just when the mass media devices became available to exploit, they were exploited; by two very greedy and brutal leaders called Hitler and Stalin.
The two were able to use fear with mass media to brainwash people all over the world to fear and hate and kill each other. Stalin slaughtered over 6 million people like cattle for fear of opposing political views. Hitler burned 6 million Jews in ovens for fear of contamination of race.
The two were able to use fear with mass media to brainwash people all over the world to fear and hate and kill each other. Stalin slaughtered over 6 million people like cattle for fear of opposing political views. Hitler burned 6 million Jews in ovens for fear of contamination of race.
An elite few who were very rich saw they could exploit this shrinking world and secretively drew up a plan to take over the world. They wanted to unite countries of the world in an attempt to control them, so they started wars. They became extremely rich providing the weapons and chemicals used in the war. The war caused so much destruction that when it finally ended they made even more money in rebuilding all that was destroyed. They then offered the concept of world government to ensure that such a world war would never again happen.
Unfortunately, the media became the message because the greedy people controlling the media started to control the messages as well. As cheap meaningless messages were more profitable than valuable useful ones, most of the messages brought little benefit to mankind. The people became complacent and preferred to see and listen instead of to read and write.
The few secretive families who over generations were carrying out a well-conceived plan for world dominance had at this point dominated world finance and world politics. Their central bank was so successful that it soon became a world bank controlling all of the world's finances and the printing of all of the world's money supply. The printed as much money as was needed to keep the people alive to work and consume.
Banks became too big to fail and got away with billions of dollars. Drug cartels became too big to nail and got away with murder. They used poor countries as field trials for their drugs killing many and causing many more to suffer greatly.
By 2,000 machines were so highly developed as to be able to fly away from earth and to explore and exploit what the space above and beyond the earth had to offer. When people used machines to communicate with each other, the world shrunk even more.
The brains of machines called computers got smaller, faster, more powerful and cheaper until their size shrunk from the size of a big room to the size of a small book. And one small book sized computer had enough room to fill hundreds of big libraries of books, songs, and movies.
The telephone, that permitted people to talk to other people far away was given a brain and became mobile. It connected you with anybody and everybody. It was able to determine where you were and record what you were saying and doing.
It was like having a private secretary who was spying on you.
Computers were networked in a mesh called the internet so that they were able to communicate with each other. Data was relayed node to node avoiding any faulty lines. Centralized nodes blossomed like stores offering specialized content and services to anyone with a computer. Just like the printing press 500 years before opened up the gate of knowledge to the privileged, the internet opened up the gates of knowledge to everyone. Knowledge was democratized.
Computers could communicate with each other without going thru any centralized node, Using the mathematics of cryptology a new form of virtual money was invented that had all the requirements needed for money optimized. The new internet money was like the cash provided by banks, but it did not need banks to control it. Internet money was adopted when the banks became too greedy and printed more cash than they should have. They became bankrupt and money was democratized.
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